Marquette Companies, a national leader in multifamily development and property management, announced a strategic reorganization of its senior leadership team. Trevor Ryan has been named partner and president of Marquette Companies, while Jim Cunningham has been appointed partner and president of Marquette Management. Additionally, Jason Tennenbaum has joined the organization as chief financial officer.
With more than 20 years of experience at Marquette, Ryan will focus on overall organizational strategy in his new role, drawing upon his expertise in portfolio strategy and identifying investment opportunities. Cunningham, who has been with the company since 2011, will lead Marquette Management, the operations side of the business, where he has accelerated the firm’s growth, notably in the adoption of artificial intelligence and other technologies to deliver improved customer experience and operational efficiencies that optimize Marquette’s property management platform and propel the firm’s core value-add strategies.
Jason Tennenbaum holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor’s degree from Boston University. As CFO, Tennenbaum will oversee day-to-day finance operations including accounting, investor relations, debt and equity structuring, and fund management.
Marquette founder Nick Ryan will continue in his role as executive chairman, primarily as a mentor to the company leaders, serving on the investment committee, and leading the company’s community-building and philanthropic efforts.
In 2025, Marquette’s priorities will focus on strategic growth of assets under management. This will be accomplished primarily through the acquisition of value-add investments that provide a significant discount to replacement cost and in submarkets with favorable fundamentals projecting short- and long-term rent growth trends. The company investment strategy also includes investing in workforce, attainable and core-plus opportunities while expanding property management assignments.
Other key initiatives in 2025 include the spring delivery and lease-up of phase one at The Sylvan, a new single-family, built-to-rent (BTR) community in The Woodlands, Texas, and Tempo at White Oak, a mixed-use development in Houston that is scheduled to deliver its first apartments this summer with retail following later in the year.
