Westminster Capital is a deeply experienced real estate investment manager on behalf of private wealth capital
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Prior to co-founding Westminster Capital, Mr. Lansing spent nine years with LaSalle Partners, becoming Senior Vice President and Founder of the Strategy Group. Clients included private family clients, and companies such as Tribune Company, Hewlett-Packard, Ford Motor, 3M, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Clorox. This work involved evaluation of real estate portfolios, formulation of corporate real estate strategy, formation of joint ventures, and overseeing acquisition/disposition activity. Several of these client assignments dealt with multi-billion dollar real estate portfolios. Before joining LaSalle Partners he worked for The Fox Companies, a regional real estate development company in Philadelphia and FMC Corporation in Chicago. In Lake Forest, Illinois, he has served on the Zoning Board of Appeals, Chaired a City Planning Committee, and served as an Alderman on the Lake Forest City Council. Mr. Lansing is a Director of various corporations including Lake Forest Bank & Trust Company (serving on the Bank’s Credit and Risk Management Committees), Life Care Companies LLC, and BioMatrix LLC. He has a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from The Wharton School.
Prior to joining Westminster Capital in 2012, Mr. Hunt was Managing Principal of Newport Advisors, a real estate advisory services firm that he founded. Mr. Hunt has diverse senior management experience with both public and private commercial real estate firms. He served for seven years as President and Chief Operating Officer of Great Lakes REIT, a NYSE-traded real estate investment trust that was sold to a private equity firm. He also worked for 14 years in various development, asset management, and portfolio management roles at LaSalle Investment Management, one of the world’s leading real estate investment managers. Mr. Hunt began his business career as a loan officer at BMO Harris Bank in the commercial lending department. He has a BS from Northwestern University and a MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Mr. King is a partner and has worked at the firm since 2004, leading the firm’s Asset Management Group. He worked 12 years for Northwestern Mutual Life as the Director of Real Estate Asset Management throughout the Midwest with responsibility for managing a $400 million portfolio of property assets. In Lake Forest, Illinois he is a past Chairman of the Building Review Board. He has a BBA-Finance and a Masters of Real Estate and Urban Economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Mr. Mazur is a partner and has worked at the firm for over 14 years. Before joining Westminster Capital in 2000, Mr. Mazur was Chief Investment Officer for a real estate investment fund. His responsibilities included all aspects of the acquisition process from identification of opportunities to negotiation, financial analysis, due diligence, financing, and asset management. Prior to that, Mr. Mazur worked for 10 years at Jones Lang LaSalle in various capacities including investment sales, asset management, development, property management, and leasing. In his last assignment, he oversaw the Healthcare Investment Services Group. Before joining LaSalle, he was a district sales manager for Chrysler Corporation. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.