Max L. Gardner
President
Apartment Communities
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Max L. Gardner is president of Apartment Communities for the Irvine Company. In addition to its master-planned communities, the Irvine Company also is known for its portfolio of high-quality investment properties -- office, retail and apartment -- it owns in Orange County, San Diego, West Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley.
Mr. Gardner is responsible for the planning, construction, acquisitions, leasing and management of approximately 90 apartment communities that are either completed or under construction by the company in Orange County, Silicon Valley, San Diego and West Los Angeles.
Mr. Gardner has more than 30 years of real estate experience. He joined the Irvine Company in 1999 as executive vice president of Irvine Apartment Communities. From 1995 to 1998, he was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Bay Apartment Communities, where he also served as a member of the company's board of directors.
After Bay's merger with Avalon Properties, Mr. Gardner had overall responsibility for development and acquisitions in the western region for the combined company. Prior to that, Mr. Gardner spent seven years at Trammell Crow Residential, first as regional partner of finance for the West Coast, and later as president and CEO of Trammell Crow Residential Services-West.
Mr. Gardner is a member of the Urban Land Institute and its Residential Multi-Family Council. He also is a past-president of the board of directors of the San Francisco Bay Area's Housing Industry Foundation. Mr. Gardner is a member of the Board of directors for the United Way of Orange County and serves as co-chair of its Tocqueville Society.
Mr. Gardner holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University and an MBA from the Business School at Georgia State University.
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.