Our Team

Ryan is a Managing Partner of Jackson Dearborn Partners. He oversees all elements of the JDP business including acquisitions, site selection, fundraising, and investor relations. With 15 years experience, Ryan has worked on over $1 billion in transactional real estate and has developed or acquired over $500 million in student housing and multi-family real estate.

Prior to founding Jackson Dearborn Partners, Ryan worked at brokerage firms Marcus and Millichap and Newmark Knight Frank before starting Triad Real Estate Partners in 2010. Triad is a leading broker of student housing and multi-family in the Midwest completing nearly $1.6 billion in sales since its inception. Following the success of Triad, he launched JDP with his partners in 2014 with the goal of building out a vertically integrated real estate investment portfolio.

Ryan is a graduate of the University of Michigan and after a decade in Chicago, moved back to Ann Arbor where he now resides with his wife Brittany and their two children.

Chris is a Managing Partner of Jackson Dearborn Partners. Chris is involved in all aspects of JDP’s strategic growth plan, helping to guide the company’s vision and overall direction.

With 18 years of experience, Chris has acquired and developed more than $500 million of real estate, including Student Housing, Multifamily, Affordable, Retail, Industrial and Office. He is the President and Owner of Green Street Realty, a Champaign, Illinois based real estate company that manages over 3,000 student housing beds, 2,000 multifamily units and 350,000 square feet of office, industrial and retail. He is the Founder and President of Sub 4 Development Company, a Construction Management company that has completed over $300 million of new developments. Sub 4 has offices in Champaign, Illinois, Scottsdale, Arizona and Denver, Colorado. In addition, Chris is the Co-owner of Insurance Providers Group, an independent insurance agency with six offices throughout Central Illinois.

Chris has and undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Saunders competed in Track and Field and Cross Country for the Fighting Illini, earning All-American honors in Track and Field during his career. Chris currently resides in Urbana, Illinois with his wife Jodi and their four children.

Shaun is a Partner of Jackson Dearborn Partners, where he oversees acquisitions & site selection, with a main goal of growing the JDP portfolio. Shaun brings a very diverse background with 27 years of business experience in multiple industries including the last 20 years in real estate.

Before his business career started, Shaun served his country for six years, four of which were as a Sonar Technician stationed aboard the USS Salt Lake City, a nuclear attack submarine. Following his honorable discharge from the service, Shaun spent nine years employed in the securities industry mainly as principal of his own derivatives trading firm. He went into real estate in 2003 as a broker at Marcus & Millichap before founding Triad Real Estate Partners in 2010 and Jackson Dearborn Partners in 2014.

Shaun graduated from Eastern Illinois University, is a licensed real estate broker in five states, and holds his Series 3 and Series 7 FINRA designations. Shaun is a long time Chicago resident and lives in the South Loop with his wife Maureen and their daughter.

Nick is Head of Creative and Asset Management for Jackson Dearborn Partners, as well as a partner in the firm. He is responsible for brand direction, design, marketing, advertising efforts, and asset management. He has spent 15+ years in design, the last 12 in the real estate business.

Nick began his career as a freelance graphic designer before taking a job as the in-house designer for the top golf accessory company in the country. He began his real estate career in 2013 with Triad Real Estate Partners, building the Triad brand and Marketing & Analytics team.

A graduate of Illinois State University, Nick now lives in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood with his wife Dana and their son.

Dane is an integral member of the Development Team at Jackson Dearborn, as well as a partner in the firm. He heads up site selection, entitlements, underwriting, and JDP’s research-based acquisition & development strategies.

He has spent ten years in the real estate business, working in multiple roles on the brokerage side at Triad Real Estate Partners before becoming a partner at JDP with a particular passion for urban infill development projects.

Dane spent his first fourteen years in Ballarat, Australia, before moving to the US for high school. He is a University of Michigan graduate and recently moved back to Ann Arbor with his wife, Katie, and his daughter, Oakley.

Todd is Director of Acquisitions for Jackson Dearborn Partners, as well as a partner in the firm. His primary focus is growing the firm’s multifamily portfolio in target markets in the Midwest and Mountain West. Todd also supports the Asset Management team and leads new initiatives to enhance existing operations.

He has nearly 15 years of real estate experience in valuation services, financing, acquisitions, and asset management across multiple product types. Prior to joining Jackson Dearborn, he served as vice president at Lutz Real Estate Investments, where he was instrumental in the acquisition of the firm’s student housing portfolio of nearly 3,000 beds. He previously spent three years at NPV Advisors and holds a BA from the University of Michigan.

Todd currently lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, Rachel, and their two kids.

Sean is a Partner of Jackson Dearborn Partners, his primary areas of focus include fundraising, investor relations, and marketing. Sean has over 22 years of experience including the last 18 as a real estate broker and principal participating in well over $1 billion in real estate transactions.

Following a successful career in sales, Sean started his real estate career with Marcus & Millichap in 2003, eventually founding his own brokerage company, Triad Real Estate Partners, in 2010 with partners Shaun Buss and Ryan Tobias. Moving to the principal side, Sean went on to found JDP where he utilizes creative marketing and an extensive network to build a portfolio of real estate and relationships.

Sean is originally from Philadelphia and is a graduate of Boston College. He lives in Wilmette, IL with his wife Gretchen and their four children.

Mark is a Partner at Jackson Dearborn Partners where he is involved in investor relations/equity sourcing, structure, and finance & accounting.

He joined JDP in 2018 after 25 years in public accounting.  Mark is a CPA and spent 13 years at a national CPA firm and the previous 12 years as a partner at a mid-sized CPA firm where he quickly built and managed a significant practice that provided tax, assurance and consulting services to his clients. He continues to use that deep experience in heading up JDP’s Qualified Opportunity Zone accounting and compliance directives.

In addition, Mark is deeply involved in the community and serves on the Board of Trustees at Carle Health and is the Quality Committee Chair.  Mark graduated from Illinois State University in 1994 with a BS in Accountancy and has been a CPA since 1994.

Shannon focuses on all aspects of Sales and Acquisitions and is a Partner of Jackson Dearborn Partners. She works directly to build and maintain client and broker relationships and to ensure overall growth and success of the company.

Shannon has over 15 years of successful Sales and Sales Management experience as a District Manager for Coca-Cola and a Pharmaceutical Rep with Allergan prior to beginning her real estate career. In 2017, she became a licensed Real Estate Broker with Champaign, Illinois based Green Street Realty. In less than four years, she sourced and closed over $50 million deals, while managing 350,000 square feet of commercial retail, office, and industrial space. Additionally, Shannon became a licensed Insurance Broker in 2017. She is an active insurance broker with Insurance Providers Group and a Partner of Mahomet Insurance Providers Group agency, where she has built a strong book of business totaling over $700,000.

Shannon graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003 with a Pre-Med/Kinesiology degree. She stayed in the area upon graduation and currently lives in Mahomet with her husband and two kids.