Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> April 20, 1998

Dennis E. Gershenson – Ramco-gershenson Properties Trust (rpt)

DENNIS E. GERSHENSON is President and Chief Executive Officer of Ramco- Gershenson Properties Trust. He joined Ramco-Gershenson, Inc., the private management and development corporation purchased by the Trust, in 1969 and, for the past 28 years, had the primary responsibility of overseeing all of the financing of the company's developments, expansions and acquisitions. A graduate of Syracuse University and Wayne State University Law School, he was a member of the Wayne State Law Review and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1969. He is a member of the Michigan State Bar. Mr. Gershenson is a past regional director of the International Council of Shopping Centers. He has been a member of the National Realty Committee and sits on the boards of the Metropolitan Affairs Coalition, Hospice of Michigan and Merrill Palmer Institute. Profile
TWST: Would you give our readers sort of a thumbnail sketch, or rundown,

as to just what Ramco-Gershenson does, and how it happened to be set up?

What's its key mission?

Mr. Gershenson: