
A Virginia dairy farm, a detour through engineering and 24 years at Morgan Stanley brought Owen Thomas to BXP. Now he is making a case for the office one building, one train connection and one tenant at a time.

He helped bring IBC Bank into Austin in 2004. Two decades of construction lending, housing work and civic appointments reveal how a banker becomes part of a city.
Before he ran UDR, Tom Toomey worked his way through Oregon State. His career in apartments and his gifts to students keep returning to a practical question: what gives people room to get ahead?