Kelly Gardner

Current

General Manager at General Growth Properties

Past

Assistant General Manager at GGP
Computer Traffic Operator at TransCore/UDOT

Education

Portland State University - School of Business
Ecole de Management de Marseille
University of Utah

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Industry

Commercial Real Estate

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Kelly Gardner’s Summary

Professional, emotionally intelligent and strategy based problem solver with significant management and international experience. I thrive in leadership roles and enjoy collaborating with clients, and senior management. I consider myself to be extremely tech savvy who instinctively looks for technological ways and means to overcome obstacles.

I have been with GGP for 5 years. I started as an Intern through the Prodigy Program and shortly after was hired on as an Assistant GM. For two years I worked through a development rotation program at a number of centers in Utah. While at these centers, I worked in all aspects of management, i.e. forecasting, redevelopment, leasing, operations and marketing.

Currently I am the General Manager at the Three Rivers Mall in Kelso, WA. Managing a 47 acre site anchored by Target, Safeway, two hotels, Regal Cinema, and approx 250,000 SF of enclosed mall anchored with JC Penney, Macy's and Sears. My main area of focus at this center is cultivating our business development program and working to improve the visual standards of the center while controlling expenses and capital projects.

I am also very active in the community being a member of the Kelso/Longiew Chamber of Commerce, Kelso Rotary and sit on the Board of Directors for the Cowlitz County Habitat for Humanity.

I enjoy leading and working with my mall team as well as the various business owners and managers in the mall and in the community. I am attending Portland State University as an MBA student with a concentration in International Business and Real Estate.

Kelly Gardner’s Specialties:

Financial Analysis/Forecasting, Leasing,Team Management, Strategic Planning, Due Diligence, Development, Branding, Cross-Platform and various suite knowledge, Argus, CRM/ERP systems, GoldMine, GroupWise, and Community Involvement and Relations.

Kelly Gardner’s Experience

General Manager

General Growth Properties

(Public Company; GGP; Real Estate industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Three Rivers Mall-Kelso, Washington. 581,000 SF, 47 Acre Site.

Anchored by Macy's, Sears, JCP, Target & Safeway
Assistant General Manager

GGP

(Public Company; GGP; Real Estate industry)

September 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 5 months)

Worked at four regional malls in Utah in all aspects of management, Operations, Marketing and Development. Malls included:

Fashion Place, Murray Utah
Newgate Mall, Ogden Utah
Provo Towne Centre, Provo Utah
Cottonwood Mall, Holladay Utah
Computer Traffic Operator

TransCore/UDOT

(Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

May 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 8 months)

Copy and paste this link for description of what the Traffic Operations Center does for UDOT. http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/f?p=100:pg:1625717174285433::::V,T:8778,191

Kelly Gardner’s Education

Portland State University - School of Business

MBA , Business , 2008 — 2010 (expected)

Concentration in International Business, Real Estate and Luxury Brand Management.
Ecole de Management de Marseille

MBA , Global Capital Markets, International Management, Luxury Brand Management , 2009 — 2009

Study abroad at Euromed Marseille, Ecole de Management studying international finance, management, luxury brand management and geo-politics.

Activities and Societies:

Completed in conjunction an independent Case Study: L'Occitane en Provence on corporate responsibility, luxury brand management and centralized product distribution.
University of Utah

BA , Economics , 2002 — 2005

Portuguese. (Brazil)

Activities and Societies:

ASUU: Associated Students of the University of Utah