Richard Gilchrist
President
Investment Properties Group
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Rick Gilchrist is president of the Investment Properties Group for the Irvine Company. Mr. Gilchrist joined the Irvine Company in 2006 as the new president of its office division, and oversaw all day-to-day aspects of the company’s large and growing portfolio of office properties in Orange County, San Diego, West Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, including leasing, operations, marketing and finance functions.
In 2007, he was named president of the company’s Investment Properties Group. In this position, Mr. Gilchrist guides all aspects of the Irvine Company’s office, retail, resort and apartment properties in Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego and the Silicon Valley, including development, marketing and management.
Mr. Gilchrist is considered one of the industry's most versatile and highly respected executives, having served as chief executive and founder of major public and private real estate companies with operations throughout the United States.
Prior to joining The Irvine Company, Mr. Gilchrist served as president and co-chief executive of Maguire Properties Inc. in Los Angeles. At Maguire, he oversaw significant growth in the company's portfolio, both through acquisitions and development, and spearheaded the company's successful initial public offering in 2003. Before joining Maguire, Mr. Gilchrist served as president and chief executive of Commonwealth Atlantic Properties, where he managed the planning and entitlement of one of the East Coast's largest and most complex mixed-used projects, an 11 million-square-foot development called Potomac Yard.
Mr. Gilchrist is chairman of the Whittier College Board of Trustees, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. He earned a law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Irvine Company is a 140-year-old privately held company known throughout the world as a best-of-class master planner and long-term owner, investor and operator of a large and diversified real estate portfolio. The company also is known as a steward of some of the most beautiful, permanently preserved land in California. In addition to its master-planned communities on The Irvine Ranch® in Orange County, Calif., the company also is known for its portfolio of high-quality investment properties -- office, retail and apartment -- it owns in San Diego, Orange County, West Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley. The company traces its roots to the 1860s with the assembly of The Irvine Ranch from Mexican and Spanish land grants. The Irvine Company was incorporated in 1894.