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Jean Schlemmer is executive vice president and chief corporate development officer for General Growth Properties Inc. She is responsible for developing and coordinating GGP's organizational initiatives to improve various aspects of organizational life necessary for success including talent culture values systems and behaviors.
Ms. Schlemmer joined General Growth Properties in 1989 when General Growth acquired The Center Companies a Minneapolis-based shopping center management company. She held a variety of supervisory positions in leasing until she became senior vice president of asset management for 55 wholly-owned regional malls in 1997. She became executive vice president of asset management with oversight responsibilities for all of GGP's owned and joint venture partnership shopping centers third party management business development and marketing in 2000 a position she held until she was promoted to her current position in December 2005.
Ms. Schlemmer had been with The Center Companies since 1986 as vice president of leasing for the Western Region and became vice president of leasing for the entire company in October 1987. Prior to joining The Center Companies Ms. Schlemmer was president of her own retail real estate company for three years. Previous to that she was in charge of leasing for both Gabbert & Beck and Cedar River Associates Inc. in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul).
Ms. Schlemmer graduated Phi Beta Kappa summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota with a BA in Journalism. She spent two years working as a reporter and editor at the Mexico City News and returned to the University for graduate work in American Studies.
She is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and the Urban Land Institute and has served on two ULI Advisory Studies panels for Anaheim California and Charlotte North Carolina. She is a member of the advisory board to the athletic department and is a member of the President's Club at the University of Minnesota. Ms. Schlemmer is also on the Board of Directors for the Ounce of Prevention Fund which invests in the healthy development of at-risk infants toddlers preschoolers and their families. | 