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Gerald
Spector
Chief Operating Officer
Tribune Company
Gerald A. (Gerry) Spector was named Tribune Company’s chief operating officer in December 2009. Previously, Spector was executive vice president and chief administrative officer.
Spector joined Tribune in 2007 from Equity Residential, the largest apartment real estate investment trust in the United States, where he served as trustee and executive vice president of Equity Residential since March 1993 and chief operating officer since February 1995. He was treasurer from March 1993 to February 1995. At the end of 2007, Spector will retire from his operating posts at Equity Residential but remain vice chairman of the company’s board of trustees.
From 1988 to 1994, Spector was chief operating officer of Equity Group Investments. For the last three of those years he was also EGI’s executive vice president. He was vice president from November 1994 to January 1996.
Previously, starting in 1973, Spector was an officer of Equity Financial and Management Company, most recently serving as executive vice president from November 1994 to January 1996. From 1990 to 1994 he was the company’s executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Spector was a director of Equity Group Investments, LLC, and Equity Financial and Management Company from 1990 to 1996, and a director of Manufactured Homes Communities, Inc., from 1992 to 1995.
Spector holds a BSBA from Roosevelt University, attended the University of Illinois and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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