Future Proofing Your Career | Paul Sack
About Paul Sack
Paul Sack holds an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University, an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
With the exception of seven years as a department store executive in the 1950’s and four years on the Peace Corps staff in the 1960’s, Mr. Sack has spent his entire career in real estate. He founded The Paul Sack Properties in 1958 and subsequently formed 13 partnerships for the ownership, development or acquisition of multifamily residential properties, including rental apartments, for-sale condominiums and land for homebuilders.
Mr. Sack was the founder of The RREEF Funds, which currently manages over $60 billion of real estate, chiefly for pension funds, through offices across the United States and around the world. Now retired from RREEF, he has returned to participation in acquisition and property management in an advisory role.
Mr. Sack has served on the boards of BRIDGE Housing Corporation, Golden West Financial Corporation, and a number of nonprofit philanthropic organizations. He is also a former trustee and regional vice president of the International Council of Shopping Centers. He is a former trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is an emeritus trustee of the San Francisco Art Institute.
Interview Transcript of: Future Proofing Your Career | Paul Sack
I would say that the world is going to change so much in your lifetime. You should Be educated and prepared for change. I have an MBA and I think it has been invaluable to me in my lifetime. Again being able to move not only from company to company and activity to activity, but industry to industry. And a young person today has got to realize that there are going to be industries in the future that are coming that don’t exist today they had no computers when I went to business school. They told us that it is not worth punching the IBM card unless you use it 3 times. How does that sound for obsolete!
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Paul Sack holds an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University, an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
With the exception of seven years as a department store executive in the 1950’s and four years on the Peace Corps staff in the 1960’s, Mr. Sack has spent his entire career in real estate. He founded The Paul Sack Properties in 1958 and subsequently formed 13 partnerships for the ownership, development or acquisition of multifamily residential properties, including rental apartments, for-sale condominiums and land for homebuilders.
Mr. Sack was the founder of The RREEF Funds, which currently manages over $60 billion of real estate, chiefly for pension funds, through offices across the United States and around the world. Now retired from RREEF, he has returned to participation in acquisition and property management in an advisory role.
Mr. Sack has served on the boards of BRIDGE Housing Corporation, Golden West Financial Corporation, and a number of nonprofit philanthropic organizations. He is also a former trustee and regional vice president of the International Council of Shopping Centers. He is a former trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is an emeritus trustee of the San Francisco Art Institute.
Alan is managing partner at Greenstein, Rogoff, Olsen & Co., LLP, (GROCO) and is a respected leader in his field. He is also the radio show host to American Dreams. Alan’s CPA firm resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and serves some of the most influential Venture Capitalist in the world. GROCO’s affluent CPA core competency is advising High Net Worth individual clients in tax and financial strategies. Alan is a current member of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (S.I.E.P.R.) SIEPR’s goal is to improve long-term economic policy. Alan has more than 25 years of experience in public accounting and develops innovative financial strategies for business enterprises. Alan also serves on President Kim Clark’s BYU-Idaho Advancement council. (President Clark lead the Harvard Business School programs for 30 years prior to joining BYU-idaho. As a specialist in income tax, Alan frequently lectures and writes articles about tax issues for professional organizations and community groups. He also teaches accounting as a member of the adjunct faculty at Ohlone College.