Mahlon Apgar

Biography: Sandy Apgar privatized the US military’s largest government housing program and designed and launched the Army’s pioneering public-private partnerships (the Residential Communities Initiative). A 45-year ULI member, he is a Trustee, Foundation Governor, former chair of three Product Councils, and co-founder of the International Committee. He has advised the boards and senior executives of 200 leading organizations on more than 600 real estate projects in 13 countries, including Columbia, Maryland, Walt Disney World, FL, Playa Vista, California, the Aramco headquarters in Saudi Arabia, and the British and French new towns programs. Sandy holds a US patent on a real estate portfolio evaluation system, and authored a landmark real estate series in the Harvard Business Review. A former partner of McKinsey and the Boston Consuling Group (BCG), and founder of a boutique consulting practice, he is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and the only two-time recipient of the James Felt Award for Creative Counseling from the Counselors of Real Estate. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.