Bio
As President and CEO of Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners, Mr. Lynch assumes primary responsibility for firm management and project coordination, with a commitment to developing a quality product and superior service. That commitment has produced distinctive urban mixed-use projects for investors and a distinguished list of public, private and non-profit clients.
Mr. Lynch has over twenty years’ experience in public and private real estate as an investor and advisor, including projects in Silicon Valley, CA and Washington, DC. He founded Jair Lynch in 1998 and has completed more than 65 projects totaling almost 4.3 million square feet of development in DC, with an additional 1.7 million square feet in his development pipeline. He is a driving force for urban regeneration, working to create walkable urban places to empower people, develop place and create prosperity.
Jair grew up in Washington, DC and attended Sidwell Friends where he was an excellent student and became a world class gymnast. He subsequently attended Stanford University and became Captain of their Gymnastics team. While there he competed in the 1992 Olympic Games. After graduation from Stanford he joined Silicon Graphics in their real estate department and trained for the 1996 Olympics where he earned a Silver Medal in the parallel bars event. He subsequently returned to Washington DC to begin his company.
Show Notes
- Jair Lynch Company- Less than 10MM s.f., so he is involved with portfolio often, but most of his time is with strategic planning. (3:20)
- Has CEO perspective now (4:40)
- Pandemic influences on business- Shaken everyone to their core (5:30)
- Affected people first
- Team has been resilient enough to execute on plans from 2019
- Able to keep all projects moving forward and accelerate business
Origins
- Parents are immigrants and met at Johns Hopkins Center of International Studies in an academic environment (7:30)
- Father is a Professor at Howard University
- Mother is an academic and with the Organization of American States)
- Grew up in Washington DC and parents opened him up to museums (8:50)
- U Street history
- 3 Levels- Local, Federal and International perspectives of Washington DC (10:30)
Education and Athletic Career
- Sidwell Friends– Value structure aligned with parents (12:00)
- Connections gained helped even beyond high school as an alumnus
- It shaped his world view (13:10)
- Gymnastics career
- YMCA was origin of sports (13:40)
- He was always there and most interested in gymnastics consistently (14:15)
- Stanford
- As a gymnastics star, he had only a few choices and Stanford was his best choice and was recruiting from the East Coast (16:00)
- National Champion- Tim Ryan was attractive (17:15)
- Only West Coast and Big Ten were choices
- Grounding leadership skills (18:30)
- Need to work hard both athletically and academically (19:00)
- Rules Committees (19:30)
- Risk, Originality, and Virtuosity were ranking variables (20:00)
- His academics were “associated” with his athletic performance (21:30)
- Captain of Gymnastics team
- Honors student (23:15)
