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.

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.