Bio
Bryant Foulger serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Foulger-Pratt and is a member of the Investment Committee. In his current role, Bryant draws on more than 30 years of real estate and management experience to provide approval and oversight of the CEO’s vision and strategy.
He was appointed to Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s transition team and is also involved with the Montgomery Business Development Corporation, the Greater District of Columbia Chapter of the Leadership Council for the Mayo Clinic, the Montgomery County Business Advisory Panel, and is a Trustee Emeritus of the Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland. Bryant attended Brigham Young University and serves on numerous professional and charitable boards.
Show Notes
Current Role
- Chairman role still involved day to day. Handed reins of business to four Managing Partners (6:00)
- Spends time on asset management and design for new projects (6:30)
- Does what he wants to do and not what he doesn’t want to do (7:10)
- What is over the horizon? (8:00)
Origin Story
- Born in Utah (9:00)
- Sid Foulger (his Dad) was a friend of the Marriott family (9:15)
- Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (9:30)
- His Dad was recruited to Marriott Corporation to help with construction of hotels (10:00)
- His Dad went out on his own with six children to start Foulger & Company, a development/construction company (10:50)
- Sid Foulger was an entrepreneur who found opportunities and was tenacious to get things done (11:15)
- Family relationships in the Mormon faith are “eternal.” (13:45)
- Lived next door to brothers and sisters (14:15)
- He had close family bonds with 48 grandchildren (his children and nephews and nieces) (14:30)
- Many shared experiences- Homes in Utah and New Hampshire (15:45)
- Bought lots on one block in Potomac about 40 yrs. ago (16:15)
- Mormon Temple, Kensington, MD story (19:00)
- Bob Barker helped find the site (19:20)
- Sid Foulger helped in pricing the project (20:00)
- Keith Wilcox was the architect (childhood friend of Sid Foulger in Utah)
- Identified with the Salt Lake Temple in appearance
- Partnered with Okland Construction of Utah to build the Temple
- White Alabama marble is the exterior curtain wall. (22:00)
- In 1974 about 750,000 people toured the...
