KEY EXECUTIVE BIOGRAPHIES

MORGAN DENE OLIVER
Chief Executive Officer

Morgan Dene Oliver is the Chief Executive Officer of OliverMcMillan.  Dene was born in San Diego and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics from the School of Business Administration.  After completing an undergraduate degree, he attended and graduated from the University of Southern California School of Law, and attended the University of Southern California Graduate School of Business Administration. In 1978, after practicing law in the areas of real estate business law, Dene founded OliverMcMillan.  OliverMcMillan is headquartered in San Diego with offices in Chicago, Seattle and Ontario.  In its twenty-nine year history, OliverMcMillan has designed, developed and/or managed 8,000,000 square feet of office, commercial, industrial, residential, retail, research and development and mixed-use projects with a total project value in excess of $1.2 Billion.  It has been continually recognized for producing major design award-winning projects throughout the United States and was recently awarded Urban Land Institute’s Grand Award for Best Mixed Use Master Development for The Glen Town Center in Glenview, Illinois.  OliverMcMillan is currently working on over $2 billion of new mixed-use projects, including a $700 million development in Houston, Texas, multiple urban loft projects in San Diego, a 1.7 million square foot mixed-use project in Ontario, California, 200 riverfront acres in Everett, Washington and a second town center project in suburban Chicago.

Dene has been active in both professional and community organizations.  Dene is a member of ICSC and the Urban Land Institute and is frequently asked to speak at various industry-related organizations.  He was also appointed by the San Diego City Council to the Board of Directors of the $200 million San Diego Convention Center where he served as President and Chairman of the Board of the San Diego Convention Center Corporation and was the founding Chairman of the Expansion Committee of the San Diego Convention Center that completed a $300 million expansion.   The Downtown San Diego Partnership awarded him the Founders Award in 1997 and the Humanitarian Award in 2001.  Dene was a member of the 1995 America’s Cup Board of Directors and currently chairs the San Diego County 10 Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.