John E. Hausmann is a financial and investment professional with extensive experience in such key areas as real estate, asset management, turnarounds and workouts, acquisitions and sales, mezzanine finance, and property and construction management.

During a career that has spanned more than 30 years, he has evaluated and implemented high-impact projects and turnarounds for companies throughout the United States, served as Receiver for troubled real estate projects, as a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) housing consultant, and served on the Boards of Directors for three banks and a suburban public transportation organization.

Working with a Pennsylvania-based real estate investment trust that was one of the originators of the asset swap program, Mr. Hausmann supervised $90 million in construction loans and equities, selling the remaining assets. As Vice President and Division Manager for one of the nation’s largest real estate lenders, he managed three functional real estate construction lending divisions with outstanding balances exceeding $1 billion and commitments of more than $2 billion. He also led the Asset Management Division, the workout and turnaround area, developing strategic plans to reposition properties. During his management, he helped grow the department to $5 billion in five divisions.

Mr. Hausmann has been President and owner of Hausmann Enterprises, Inc., an asset management and consulting company for acquisitions and workouts, since 1983. He acquires and manages residential, commercial, industrial and retail properties, and is Receiver for problems between conflicting partners and banks. Through Hausmann Enterprises, he acquired a national bank in Arizona on behalf of a large corporate client, sold troubled assets and liabilities and left a clean charter for the client to establish a credit card bank. Mr. Hausmann also performed and managed due diligence activities and subsequently the merger/integration of people into the new operation.

Mr. Hausmann has been Vice President, Acquisitions, for a specialty finance company specializing in mezzanine finance, originating and underwriting new business opportunities across the country. Most recently, he was Chief Operating Officer/Receiver for a speculative real estate company with a $50 million line of credit and 12 properties in six states. In that capacity, he assumed full management of this troubled lender/developer on behalf of its lenders, developing workout strategies for all loans in default and maximizing asset value while liquidating the portfolio.

In the public arena, Mr. Hausmann has been a housing consultant and Congressional liaison officer in the Midwest for FEMA, recently spending four months in Louisiana to help hurricane evacuees find housing. He was Village President (Mayor) of LaGrange, IL, for eight years and a member of the Village Board of Trustees for two. He also was a founding director of PACE, responsible for suburban public transportation, at the time of the restructure of the Chicago Area Regional Transportation Agency.

Mr. Hausmann holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., and an MBA from Darden School, the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.