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Michael Galvin

Vice Chairman
Galvin Electricity Initiative

Michael Galvin is the cofounder, vice chairman and president of Harrison Street Capital, LLC (HSC), which owns and operates a diversified portfolio of business platforms in private equity buyouts/build-ups, real estate and technology. HSC’s investment focus is in the essential, less cyclical, asset light, growth business sectors. These essential sectors provide education, health care, infrastructure (software and storage) and management consulting to defense, intelligence and safety agencies of government.

The platforms in which HSC is the co-founding, lead sponsoring investor/operator include:

  • Harrison Street Essential Sectors, LLC (private equity buyouts/build-ups);
  • Harrison Street Real Estate, LLC (medical office, assisted living, student housing, self storage and marina storage) — with approximately $3 billion in 200 properties under management nationwide that have raised over $1.2 billion in limited partner equity since 2006; and
  • UniqueSoft, an HSC company that automates the design and programming of large and complex embedded software infrastructure systems.

Galvin also is cofounder and vice chair of Gore Creek Asset Management, LLC, which is a diversified, modern portfolio, family office investment manager.

Prior to these activities, from 1992 to 2005, Galvin was the president of Galvin Enterprises, Inc., which managed a venture capital portfolio of investments in software, biotechnology, real estate development and business services. From 1989 to 1992, Galvin served as assistant secretary of commerce for export administration in the Bush administration. From 1978 to 1989, Galvin was an attorney with the law firm of Winston & Strawn LPP, where he was elected and served as a corporate finance transactions partner.

Galvin is a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the leading nonpartisan policy think tank in Washington, D.C., where he also serves as its finance chair and a member of its executive committee. He is also a trustee of the Illinois Institute of Technology and serves as a member of the university’s executive committee. Galvin also supports and serves a number of other civic and nonprofit activities in his community.

Galvin assisted his father, Bob Galvin — retired chair and CEO of Motorola, Inc. — in the founding of two nonprofit think-tanks. The Galvin Electricity Initiative works to convert the utility industry from a bulk grid to a more reliable, secure, cleaner and more affordable microgrid configuration, just as Bob Galvin’s team led the conversion of land-line telephony to cellular telephones. The Galvin Mobility Project aims to eliminate urban auto mass transportation congestion via tunnelling and metering/information technology. These policy initiatives are envisioned to create one million new jobs that cannot be outsourced abroad and would be financed by the private sector.