Business Innovation Conference

Christopher Galvin is Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Harrison Street Capital, LLC; co-founder and Principal, Harrison Street Real Estate Capital LLC, Executive Chairman and co-founder of UniqueSoft Inc. a real-time software authoring services company; and Chairman of Cleversafe Inc., a digital storage company.

Mr. Galvin is member of the board of MCR-Aerodyne Inc., a Harrison Street Capital LLC financed roll-up in US Department of Defense services; a member the Executive Committee of Northwestern University's Board of Trustees; the American Enterprise Institute Board, the Legion D'honneur, Tsinghua University School of Management and Economics (Beijing); Business Council (U.S.), the American Society of Corporate Executives; the Board of the Chicago Council of Global Affairs and Chair of the Rhodes Scholars selection committee for Illinois-Michigan.

Mr. Galvin's former relationships include: Chairman of NAVTEQ, the leading supplier of global digital mapping databases; Chairman and CEO of Motorola Inc.; member of the Bechtel Corporation's Board of Counselors; chairman of the U.S.-China Business Council; director of the Rand Corporation; member of the U.S. Department of Defense Science Board; advisor to the City of Tianjin, China; advisor to the CEO of Hong Kong; and advisor to the Searle Family Trusts.

Mr. Galvin co-founded The Galvin Projects in 2004, a virtual global think tank that published three books (2008-09); Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, LLC in 2005, a private equity company that today hosts $2.0B in assets under management in medical office buildings, storage, student housing, and senior housing represented in 170 properties across 31 states in U.S.; and Gore Creek Asset Management LLC in 2005, a large capital investment company utilizing about 100 global investment managers diversified across most major asset classes.

Unreported by the general business press or Motorola Inc.'s Board of Directors, Mr. Galvin led one of the top five turnarounds since 1990 of global high technology corporations larger than $5B in revenue as Chairman and CEO of Motorola Inc (2000-2004.) Verified in an empirical study of large high tech turnarounds assessing 13 performance measures (covering market value, financial operations and solvency/liquidity) by Monitor/Global Business Network Inc., the other four top turnarounds include IBM (1992-1997), Hewlett-Packard (2003-2007), Apple (1996-2001), and Xerox (2000-2005).