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Ken Valach

Chief Executive Officer
Leadership
Crow Holdings Development

Ken Valach is the Chief Executive Officer of Crow Holdings Development, a leading real estate development company specializing in multifamily, industrial, and office projects across high-opportunity markets in the United States. CHD is a subsidiary of Crow Holdings, a privately owned real estate investment and development firm with 75 years of history and $30 billion in assets under management.

Ken has been with Crow Holdings-affiliated companies since 1989, when he joined Trammell Crow Residential, the multifamily development platform of CHD and served a variety of positions with TCR before assuming the role of CEO in 2009. In 2015, Ken was also named as leader of the industrial development team to help build a national platform for development of speculative and build-to-suit industrial projects. CHD launched an office platform in 2020, which Ken also oversees.

Previously, Ken served as Chief Financial Officer of a private company in Southern California and as a management consultant with Price Waterhouse. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Math, cum laude, from Claremont McKenna College, where he has served as a member of the Board of Trustees since 2009 and was appointed Board Chair in July 2024. He received a Master of Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

In addition to his role and responsibilities with CHD, Ken is the Chair of the National Multifamily Housing Council, a Director of Kimble Senior Housing, and Chairman of New Hope Housing, which serves extremely low-income individuals and families. He serves on the board of Coalition for the Homeless and is also a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Advisory Board, and the Real Estate Roundtable.