William Hankowsky

Biographie : 10/5/18 William P. Hankowsky Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer William P. Hankowsky is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Liberty Property Trust. Mr. Hankowsky joined Liberty in January of 2001 as chief investment officer, responsible for refining the company’s corporate strategy and investment process. In 2002 he was named president, and in 2003 he was appointed chief executive officer and elected chairman of Liberty’s board of trustees. Under his leadership Liberty has become the nation’s leading commercial developer of high performance green buildings, earning an unparalleled series of national awards including the 2006 United States Green Building Council’s Leadership in LEED® award, the 2007 NAIOP (National Association of Industrial and Office Properties) Green Development award, the 2008 CoreNet Global Sustainability Leadership award, and the 2008 NAIOP Developer of the Year award. Prior to joining Liberty, Mr. Hankowsky served in a number of private-sector and public-service roles. He created the Camden, New Jersey Community and Economic Development Agency and directed the agency for eight years. He then served in real estate management positions for the Amtrak and Reading rail corporations, before joining the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, one of the premier public development agencies in the nation, where he served for 11 years as president managing 11 industrial parks, operating 20 loan programs and coordinating major projects including a new convention center, new hotels, professional sports stadiums and attracting the Norwegian shipbuilding giant, Kvaerner, to Philadelphia in a $1 billion deal that created more than 6,000 jobs at the former Philadelphia Navy Ship Yard. During a two-year hiatus from the PIDC, Mr. Hankowsky also served as the city of Philadelphia’s commerce director. With his extensive experience in both the public and private real estate sectors he is a frequent speaker at real estate conferences and has been featured in The Wall St. Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Real Estate Portfolio, Commercial Property News and Development Magazine, among other media outlets. Mr. Hankowsky currently serves on the boards of Aqua America Inc., Citizens Financial Group Inc., Delaware River Waterfront Corporation, Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, Philadelphia Shipyard Development Corporation, and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. Mr. Hankowsky received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Brown University.