Wood Partners

Ryan Dearborn is Chief Executive Officer of Wood Partners, responsible for strategic guidance and oversight of all company operations nationwide. Dearborn has been a principal in the financing and development of more than $3.7 billion in multifamily developments totaling more than 24,000 multifamily units in the Southeastern and Southwestern United States.

Before joining Wood Partners in 1998, Dearborn served as a Development Partner in Trammell Crow Residential's South Division. During his tenure with TCR, he was involved with the financing, development, construction, and/or asset management of more than 2,500 multifamily and hotel units in Atlanta. Dearborn also worked for four years in operations at Avalon Properties, Inc. (formerly TCR-Mid Atlantic) and for the Real Estate Advisory Group of Alex Brown Kleinwort Benson.

Dearborn holds an MBA degree from the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, where he received a Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) fellowship; a Master of Science degree in Real Estate from Johns Hopkins University; and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland. He serves on the Urban Land Institute Multifamily Gold Council and on the Board of Trustees of the University of Maryland.