By Matt Slepin on November 23, 2020
During this episode of Leading Voices in Real Estate, Matt interviews Alan Gold, Executive Chairman of IQHQ, a start-up real estate company serving the life sciences industry. The episode serves as a continued exploration of different niches within the real estate business — serving the biotech/life sciences field requires unique knowledge and relationships and brings a special set of challenges as well as opportunities. Alan is a serial entrepreneur, having been a co-founder of Alexandria Real Estate Equities and then the founder and CEO of BioMed Realty Trust (and its predecessor), which sold to Blackstone in 2016. He is now the Executive Chairman of both IQHQ, started in February of this year, as well as of Innovative Industrial Properties, the only NYSE cannabis REIT. In addition to drilling down on the life sciences real estate business, Matt and Alan talk about the benefits of specialization and of “bringing the band back together” in his companies.
Prior to IQHQ, Alan founded Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. in 2016, the first publicly-traded REIT that provides real estate capital to the medical-use cannabis industry, and he currently serves as its Executive Chairman, a position he has held since its formation. Paul Smithers, CEO of Innovative Industrial Properties, was on Leading Voices in 2019.
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