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Christopher Galvin is chairman and cofounder of Harrison Street Capital LLC; Chairman of NAVTEQ, a $4 billion market cap company and leading supplier of global digital mapping databases; and former chairman and CEO of Motorola Inc. Christopher is a member of the Bechtel Corporation’s Board of Counselors, the Executive Committee of Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees; the American Enterprise Institute Board, the Legion D’honneur, Business Council (US), the American Society of Corporate Executives, an advisor to the City of Tianjin, China and to Hong Kong, and an advisor to the Searle Family Trusts and the Board of the Chicago Council of Global Affairs. Christopher is a former chairman of the US-China Business Council; a director of the Rand Corporation and a member of the US Department of Defense Science Board. Christopher has also co-founded The Galvin Projects in 2004, a virtual global think tank; Harrison Street Real Estate Capital LLC in 2005, a $200m private equity fund established to invest in the specialty real estate categories of medical office buildings, parking, storage, student housing and senior housing in the U.S.; and Gore Creek Asset Management LLC in 2005, a large capital investment company, utilizing and managing global investment managers. Activities in early stage high technology ventures and the formation of a privately held multi-business conglomerate will be added in the 2007-2008 timeframe. After serving the company for more than 36 years, Christopher retired from Motorola as chairman and CEO in 2004. In his later years at Motorola, he successfully lead the $27 billion revenue company through a grueling global restructuring process that reduced its break-even cost by +25 percentage points over 2.5 years, while at the same time investing heavily in new product development including the completion of the innovative design of Motorola's RAZR cellular phone, (a four-year development program). During Christopher’s tenure as an executive of Motorola and serving in the Office of the CEO, Motorola inspired or enabled the cable modem, the Nextel service, GPS Navigation plus Telematics and was China's largest foreign investor. | 