Matthew Whalen is an industry veteran with over 30 years of real estate experience who has completed more than 5 billion dollars of real estate investments in sectors as diverse as multifamily, office, industrial, hospitality, and single-family development. A 1988 graduate of Princeton University with a B.A. in History, Whalen began his career with Toll Brothers in New Jersey; and has held vice president positions at Security Capital, Homestead Village, Crimson Partners, and Cogent Communications. Before joining Cord Meyer in 2019, he served as Senior Vice President of Development at AvalonBay Communities Inc, where he deployed more than 2 billion dollars and brought more than 5,000 apartments to the multifamily market. Whalen’s respected vision and commitment to the industry inspired a 2006 election to the Long Island Builder’s Institute (LIBI) Board of Directors and subsequent turns as president in 2009 and chairman in 2010. He has served on the Board of Hofstra University’s Institute of Real Estate and on the Executive Board of both the Long Island Real Estate Group and the Real Estate Practitioners Institute, in addition to memberships in the Long Island Housing Partnership,... Read More