Mary Ann King

Biography: Mary Ann King is Co-Chairman of Moran & Company, a national brokerage firm that focuses all of its energies on the multifamily asset class and on mixed use properties with significant residential components. The company maintains brokerage offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Irvine, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Mary Ann received a BA in Urban Studies in 1975 from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. She received a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning with a specialization in Housing Development from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1977 and a Masters of Management (MBA) with a major in Accounting and Finance from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1982. From 1977-1983, she worked in the Real Estate Department of Continental Bank. She was made an officer in 1979, an AVP in 1981 and a VP in 1983. From 1982-1983, she had responsibility for managing a team of lenders involved in underwriting condominium conversion loans nationwide. In 1983, Mary Ann joined Moran & Company in Chicago as its Vice President of Acquisitions and Finance. From 1983-1993, she was responsible for identifying and financing joint venture development opportunities for Moran & Company’s investor clientele. In 1994, in response to demand from Moran & Company’s institutional clientele, Ms. King, became licensed as a broker and sold the first property ever listed by Moran & Company’s newly formed brokerage division. Since that time, Mary Ann has been responsible for some 40% of the $39.9 billion in apartment transactions handled by her company. Mary Ann was instrumental in managing the underwriting and developing the collateral materials that has given Moran & Company its unsurpassed reputation in the sale of institutional quality apartment properties nationwide. Mary Ann is a member of the Executive Committee for the National Multi Housing Council and was the Chairman of that organization from 2006 – 2008. She has served as part of the leadership team for this trade association since January of 2000. Having served as the Chair of one of ULI’s Multifamily Product Council’s from 2010 to 2012. Mary Ann is a full member of ULI and has served as a ULI Trustee and the Product Council Counselor for all four Multifamily Product Councils. Mary Ann is on the Board for Over the Rainbow, an Illinois not-for-profit that develops affordable housing solutions for individuals who depend on a wheelchair for mobility. Mary Ann is also a licensed broker in the states of California, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington.