John Cirigliano
CEO, Clearbrook Companies
After more than 21 years experience in private equity investment in the services and real estate sectors, John Cirigliano has devoted the past three years to building a center-city-Lexington real estate development firm to implement important elements of the College Town Plan. Throughout his career, Cirigliano has used technology advances to enhance sustainable results for his real estate and economic development initiatives. His extensive real estate development and financing activities have been concentrated on retail and multi-family residential.
Today, Cirigliano is chairman/CEO of Clearbrook Companies, chairman of GCP Services, managing member of HDC Holdings, and the general partner of Corporate Capital Partners.
Previously, Cirigliano served as senior adviser to The Red Herring magazine; a director of Digital Origin; a managing director of Merrill Lynch; and a founding officer of Corporate Property Investors, an REIT now part of Simon Properties. He has also lectured at the Practising Law Institute on real estate finance.
Cirigliano developed an interest in philanthropy as a scholarship student at Columbia University and has served on various boards and committees related to Columbia, Outward Bound USA, and other charities. In 1987 he endowed the John Cirigliano Scholarships at Columbia, which gives preference to students from Kentucky. Columbia awarded Cirigliano the Alumni Medal for conspicuous service in 1991 and the Maniatty Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2004.
Cirigliano
received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and his JD from New
York Law School.