Global Chair

The ULI global chair guides the Institute’s delivery of member value and mission-oriented work, with an overarching goal of positioning ULI as the leading global real estate organization that attracts and retains top industry leaders; the leading authority on real estate and the “go-to” place for industry information and expertise; and the provider of solutions to the most complex real estate and urban development problems faced by cities around the world.

FRANZ F. COLLOREDO-MANSFELD

Franz Colloredo-Mansfeld is the Global Chair of the Urban Land Institute, in addition to serving as a ULI Global Governing Trustee and as Treasurer of the ULI Foundation Board of Directors.

Franz is the chairman and chief executive officer of Cabot Properties. He provides strategic direction for Cabot Properties and chairs the investment committees for all funds and investment programs. He has been the CEO of Cabot since founding the firm in 2002, raising more than a dozen funds and creating enduring partnerships with leading global investors. Franz is focused on sustaining Cabot’s strong record of realized returns and creating opportunity for the firm’s growing international team.

Franz joined his father in the industrial property business in 1996. He was Chief Financial Officer when the business went public as Cabot Industrial Trust in 1998, and during these years the New York Stock Exchange-listed Real Estate Investment Trust was the top performing industrial REIT before it was sold in 2001.

Franz previously worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company and an investment banker with Merrill Lynch & Co, living and working in New York City, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Budapest. Throughout his career in real estate and investing, Franz has served as a trustee or board member for numerous business and nonprofits.

Franz graduated from Harvard College in 1985 with a degree in history and earned an MBA in 1991 from Harvard Business School. He won a Robert Bosch Fellowship after business school and worked at the German Central Bank in Frankfurt. Franz and his college classmate married and have four grown children.