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Scott Gendell

PRESIDENT & CEO

Scott Gendell

PRESIDENT & CEO

Scott H. Gendell founded Terraco, Inc. in 1985 and has built the firm from a neighborhood retail development business to a real estate development and management company with a portfolio of more than 5 million square feet of retail and office properties. Scott provides leadership and direction to Terraco and is active in acquisitions, development, and capital markets activity. He has been a managing partner or investor in developments with an aggregate value of over $1 billion. Scott began his career as a real estate attorney practicing in the north suburbs of Chicago. He received his Juris Doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law and graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science. Scott has served as an interviewer for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Foundation, as a board member of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, and as President of Jewish National Fund: Chicago.