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The warrior 2006-11-01 Staff Writer As the son of an Iraqi Jew who settled his family in Iran before fleeing the country after the Shah fell, Robert Tchenguiz has seen his fair share of ups and downs. But with a last name that means Genghis in Persian, Tchenguiz may be able to handle such setbacks better tha

The hotelier 2006-11-01 Staff Writer In early 1991, 31-year-old Barry Sternlicht was out of a job. Seven years later, he was the chief executive officer of the largest hotel company in the world. Along the way, Sternlicht not only completed one of the most dramatic comebacks in the history of the asset class

The professor 2006-11-01 Staff Writer MBA candidates enrolled in Arthur Segel's class at Harvard Business School would do well to pay attention. After all, the professor teaching the Real Property Asset Management course at the famed university did not get to his position by writing thick tomes on economic t

The Singapore sage 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Dr. Seek Ngee Huat likes to keep a low profile. Unfortunately, sometimes he doesn't have much of a choice. As the head of the real estate program at one of the most powerful institutional investors in Asia and beyond, Seek is among the most-watched property investor

The philanthropist 2006-11-01 Staff Writer There is no shortage of interesting stories in the world of real estate—Joe E. Robert Jr. is proof of that. Robert got his start in the business when the builder he was working for went bankrupt in the middle of several projects. Seizing upon the opportunity, Robert

The frequent flier 2006-11-01 Staff Writer James Quille has always been a man on the move—and for good reason. The firm he currently heads, Macquarie Global Property Advisors, is one of the most active foreign players in Asia, a region that Quille himself has been investing in since the early 1990s.<br

The young gun 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Chad Pike , still in his thirties, is running Blackstone's real estate operations in Europe, making him one of the youngest stars in the asset class. Though he is often compared to two other young guns—his counterpart in the US, Jon Gray, and the co-head of Morgan Stanl

The market maker 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Globalization has to start somewhere. In the case of European private equity real estate, it arguably began when US investment banks moved their principal real estate investment arms across the Atlantic—in other words, it began with Roger Orf .<br /> <br /&

The godfather 2006-11-01 Staff Writer For many years, the name Dan Neidich was synonymous with the private equity real estate industry. As the founder and head of Goldman's Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds, Neidich oversaw the growth of one of the largest and most influential real estate franchises in the

The sheikh 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and the stateowned investment companies he controls are not only developing the whole of Dubai, they are funneling oil money into projects all over the world and, in the process, transforming the competitive landscape of the global priv