Real Estate Equity Firm CEO To Deliver Guest Lecture
Dean Adler, chief executive officer of Lubert-Adler Parters L.P., a Philadelphia-based real estate equity firm, will deliver the Advance Realty Group Lecture on Friday at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. The lecture begins at 9 a.m. in the Business Building's Struthers Auditorium and is open to all students and faculty.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (October 11, 2007) – Dean Adler, chief executive officer of Lubert-Adler Parters L.P., a Philadelphia-based real estate equity firm, will deliver the Advance Realty Group Lecture on Friday at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.
The lecture begins at 9 a.m. in the Business Building's Struthers Auditorium and is open to all students and faculty.
Adler and co-founder Ira Lubert started Lubert-Adler in 1997, and since then, the firm has invested in over $16 billion of real estate assets.
Lubert-Adler focuses its investment activities in four main areas: urban multifamily redevelopment, real estate controlled by retailers, residential resort, and large mixed-use urban sites.
In addition to its Philadelphia headquarters, the firm has offices in Atlanta, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York, and London.
Adler is also a partner in Independence Capital Partners, a family of funds totaling $7 billion in equity invested in real estate, private equity, corporate restructurings, venture capital, and asset-based lending.
Prior to Lubert-Adler, Adler worked at Ernst & Young, Baker and Hostetler, and CMS Companies. He has also served as an instructor at The Wharton School.
Adler holds a bachelor's degree from Wharton and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
The Advance Realty lectureship was established in 2004 to recognize the generosity of Smeal Board of Visitors member Peter Cocoziello '73 and his wife Sharon, and to provide a platform at Smeal for leading real estate professionals to discuss the issues facing the field.
Peter Cocoziello formed Advance Realty Group in 1979 in Bedminster, N.J., six years after graduating from Smeal with a bachelor's degree in finance. He serves as president and CEO of the company, which is one of the most active commercial real estate development, investment, and management companies in the Northeast.
