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Entrepreneurial Spirit: Andrea Ivory

1) Andrea Ivory is 38 years old with an MBA from Stanford and a Master's in Real Estate from Georgia State University. Her long term career goal is a senior asset manager position. 2) She started her own real estate investment company 9 years ago that bought and rented single family homes. She enjoyed analyzing potential real estate acquisitions. 3) She is now pursuing a career in commercial real estate asset management and wants to work for a company deciding which properties to invest in or sell.

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Entrepreneurial Spirit: Andrea Ivory

1) Andrea Ivory is 38 years old with an MBA from Stanford and a Master's in Real Estate from Georgia State University. Her long term career goal is a senior asset manager position. 2) She started her own real estate investment company 9 years ago that bought and rented single family homes. She enjoyed analyzing potential real estate acquisitions. 3) She is now pursuing a career in commercial real estate asset management and wants to work for a company deciding which properties to invest in or sell.

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Andrea Ivory

Age: 38 Degree: Master of Science in Real Estate, and MBA College: Robinson College of Business Georgia State University; Stanford Graduate School of Business 1996 Long-term career goal: Senior position as an asset manager of commercial real estate properties iVIost admired professional: Herman J. Russell, Chairman, H.J. Russell & Co.

Entrepreneurial Spirit
Georgia State student pursues a mid-career calling for real estate investment analysis.
ine years ago, Andrea Ivory formed her own real estate investnieiit company. The Atlanta firm purchased and rented out single-family homes, and Ivory soon discovered her passion financial analysi.s of potential real estate acquisitions. "1 liked going out and looking at properties and running the numbers," Ivory says. "You always hear about people who say they would do things for free. I would do this for free. " Ivory retui'ned to the classroom in January 2007 to embark on a new career. She is pursuing a Master of Science in Real Estate at the Rohinson College of Business at Georgia State University. The program, designed for working profe.ssionals, has helped Ivory attain a financing background for a career in asset management. She graduates in December. Wliile she doesn't have a job lined up yet, Ivory envisions working for an insurance company, real estate investment trust or pension fund, helping to decide which 102

properties to invest in or sell. "I like to go look at properties and decide if something is a good buy," Ivory says. "It is very tangible. You can see the finished product. It is someone's office or a place to shop. You can see, feel and touch it and improve upon it," she explains. Ivory grew up in Flint, Mich., an auto manufacturing town. Her mother was a high school science teacher and her dad worked on the assembly line at General Motors. She became intrigued by real estate after absorbing the experience of her stepfather, who owned several apartment properties in the Chicago area. In i 991, Ivory graduated from Spelman College in Atlanta with a bachelor's degree in economics. She landed a job on Wall Street as a financial analyst for Goldman Sachs where she assisted in drafting prospectuses for companies going public, and executing new public equit)' and debt offerings for large corporate clients. But after two years she wanted a different career path and enrolled in the
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Stanford Gradale School of Business, where she received a master's degree in business administration in 1996. "I did not want to go back to banking," says Ivory, who was employed as an assistant marketing manager for General Mills in Minneapolis, where she worked on cereal promotions. She returned to Georgia in 1999 and worked as a brand manager tor GeorgiaPacific Corp., a director of field marketing with Sara Ue and senior product marketing manager at EarthLink. "All of my job changes were for better opportunities," Ivory says. "Each one was a promotion." Last year, she left EarthLink to enter the Georgia State program. Her experience in marketing will strengthen her real estate career. Ivory believes. She has worked in financial, consumer, budgeting and operations departments. Now, she's ready to analyze potential investments to help improve a company's bottom line. "I am excited to take everything I have gathered in the last 10 years of my career and put it in a new industry," Ivory says. "Real estate gives people who are the entrepreneur types a lot of flexibility in what they can do." HI Buck Wargo
www.nreionline.com

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