 | Abigail Rider |
Abigail P. Rider, a real estate management expert with over 25 years of experience,
has been named director of University Properties, according to an announcement
by Bruce Alexander, vice president and director of the Office of New Haven
and State Affairs and Campus Development.
T H I S
Abigail Rider to manage Yale’s real estate
Rider, who will also hold the post of associate vice president, comes to Yale
from Brown University, where as director of real estate and administrative
services, she managed the university’s office and commercial real estate
assets and acquired key properties for Brown’s strategic growth plan.
Prior to her experience in higher education, Rider worked for a number of years
in banking and consulting where her focus was on real estate lending,
portfolio strategy and real estate development as well as automated
lending decisioning systems.
“We are very pleased that we were able to attract someone with Abbi’s
depth of real estate experience to our important work in the continued revitalization
of New Haven,” says Alexander.
At Yale, Rider will lead the University’s real estate strategy. She will
oversee the management of Yale’s one-million-square-foot real estate
portfolio, which includes office, residential and retail space, with 85 retail
tenants near campus. She will develop policies; market and lease Yale-owned
properties; direct the development of new commercial real estate projects;
and work with New Haven groups and businesses to promote positive relations.
Rider, who holds a B.A. from Smith ,College, began her professional career
at The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., rising to the post of vice president of
the Merchant Banking Group. She subsequently worked for Old Stone Corporation,
a Rhode Island financial services company well-known in the industry as a national
real estate lender and investor, eventually becoming a senior vice president
as well as president of Old Stone Funding Corporation. She served as an executive
consultant for Rider & Co. and Kaiser Associates, working extensively with
New England banks on various aspects of their real estate portfolios.
She assumed the post of director of business and financial systems at Brown
University in 2002 and was named director of real estate and administrative
services in 2004.
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