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Daniel Ryan
Co-President & Regional Market Director at Alexandria
Introduction
Daniel J. Ryan is Co-President and Regional Market Director – San Diego of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. and has served in this role since September 2023. Mr. Ryan previously served the company as Co-Chief Investment Officer from May 2018 to September 2023, Executive Vice President – Regional Market Director – San Diego from May 2012 to September 2023, and Senior Vice President – Regional Market Director – San Diego & Strategic Operations from August 2010 to May 2012. During his tenure with Alexandria, Mr. Ryan has been responsible for the growth and management of the San Diego region's asset base and operations and been involved with developments, redevelopments, joint ventures, financing, leasing, and other strategic opportunities beyond the region.
Prior to joining the company, Mr. Ryan was Chief Executive Officer of Veralliance, a commercial real estate development company he founded in 2002. Veralliance owned, managed, developed, and leased an approximately $1 billion portfolio primarily consisting of life science assets in the greater San Diego region, certain assets of which Alexandria acquired in June 2010. Veralliance had significant institutional equity partners, including a REIT, Prudential Real Estate Investors, and UBS. Prior to 2002, Mr. Ryan worked in the commercial real estate industry in Southern California. He was a founding principal of Pacific Management Services, Inc., a commercial developer focused on value-added transactions in the greater San Diego area, including life science, office, industrial, and multifamily transactions.
Mr. Ryan is a board member of Curebound, a San Diego-based non-profit that raises and invests strategic funding in translational cancer research projects, and the San Diego Economic Development Corporation, a non-profit regional body that mobilizes business, government, and civic leaders to maximize economic growth. He is also a member of NAIOP and the Urban Land Institute, both public policy organizations focused on public advocacy of the built environment.
Mr. Ryan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was admitted to Omicron Delta Epsilon, the honor society for excellence in achievement in the study of economics.
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