Prior to founding the forerunner firm to Westminster Capital in 1988, Mr. Lansing spent nine years with LaSalle Partners, becoming Senior Vice President and Founder of the Strategy Group. Clients included private family clients and companies such as Tribune Company, Hewlett-Packard, Ford Motor, 3M, Bristol-Myers, and Clorox. This work involved evaluation of real estate portfolios, formulation of corporate real estate strategy, formation of joint ventures, and overseeing acquisition/disposition activity. Several of these client assignments dealt with multi-billion dollar real estate portfolios. Before joining LaSalle Partners, he worked for The Fox Companies, a regional real estate development company in Philadelphia, and FMC Corporation in Chicago. Mr. Lansing was the Mayor of Lake Forest, Illinois, and served on the Zoning Board of Appeals, Chaired a City Planning Committee, and served as an Alderman on the Lake Forest City Council. Mr. Lansing is a Director Emeritus of Lake Forest Bank & Trust Company, having served on the Bank’s Credit and Risk Management Committees. He has a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from The Wharton School.
Mr. King joined the firm in 2004, to lead the Asset Management Group. He worked 12 years for Northwestern Mutual Life as the Director of Real Estate Asset Management throughout the Midwest with responsibility for managing a $400 million portfolio of property assets largely containing apartment and industrial properties. In Lake Forest, Illinois, he serves on the board of the Housing Trust Fund, and was a past Chairman of the City of Lake Forest Building Review Board. Mr. King is an active member of the Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association (WREAA) and serves on the Investment Committee of the WREAA Fund. He has a BBA-Finance and a Masters of Real Estate and Urban Economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Mr. Mazur is a partner of Westminster Capital and has worked at the firm since 2000. Before joining Westminster Capital, Mr. Mazur was Chief Investment Officer for a real estate investment fund. His responsibilities included all aspects of the acquisition process from identification of opportunities to negotiation, financial analysis, due diligence, financing, and asset management. Prior to that, Mr. Mazur worked for 10 years at Jones Lang LaSalle in various capacities including investment sales, asset management, development, property management, and leasing. In his last assignment, he oversaw the Healthcare Investment Services Group. Before joining LaSalle, he was a district sales manager for Chrysler Corporation. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Ms. Sherin oversees Investor Reporting, Human Resources, and Administration at Westminster Capital. Prior to joining the Firm in 1995, she was an Administrative Assistant for the Retirement Planning Group at PaineWebber. She has a BA degree in Economics/Business with Honors from Lake Forest College.
Before joining the Firm in 2002, Mr. Strotman spent five years at Arthur Andersen in the Commercial Audit Division, the last three as a Senior Auditor. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the AICPA and the Illinois Society of CPAs. He holds a BBA in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame.
Mr. Van Wie joined the Firm in 2007 as a Financial Analyst supporting the Firm’s asset management, acquisition, and disposition activities. Previously he worked for PSK Properties, Inc. as Director of Finance and Administration. He earned a BS degree in Business Administration from Marian College, and an MBA from Marquette University.
Mr. Lansing joined the Firm in 2010 to support the investor relations and asset management functions of the Firm. Since 2014, he has led the Firm’s client capital activity. Previously, in the institutional equities and executive search businesses, he worked with many well-known hedge fund and private equity firms. Mr. Lansing is a Director of The Western Golf Association which supports The Evans Scholarship Foundation. An avid supporter of amateur golf, he has caddied in ten USGA Championships, including The United States Men’s Amateur Championship six times. Mr. Lansing is a board observer of Talk Shop Live LLC and has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Denver.
Mr. Lukac joined Westminster in 2019 to support the firm’s acquisition and asset management activities, where he now focuses primarily on new investment sourcing. He began his career in J.P. Morgan’s investment banking division in New York City, covering institutional real estate clients. Most recently, Mr. Lukac worked at Jones Lang LaSalle in Chicago, focusing on arranging debt and equity capital for various real estate asset classes across the country. Mr. Lukac holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and a BBA in Finance from Valparaiso University. He is actively involved in supporting Valparaiso University, including sitting on the school’s President’s Council of Advisors.
Ms. Cekay joined the firm November 2019 as an Executive Assistant after working as an assistant to a tax and law attorney. Graduating with a BS in Finance from the University of Maryland, College Park, her career started as an Institutional Fixed Income Sales Assistant with Bear Stearns in Los Angeles, CA before becoming a Portfolio Manager for Frye Financial Center in Aventura, FL. Ms. Cekay is an active volunteer in the Lake Forest community, most recently she served as President of the Lake Forest High School Boosters Board.