Claude Cammack "Camm" Morton (born June 12, 1951) is an American businessman, investment banker and entrepreneur.
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Early life & amp; education
Morton was born in Birmingham, Alabama. and is the son of Emily Cammack and Claude Morton Jr. Claude Morton is a real estate professional for The Equitable Life Assurance Company. Throughout his long career, Claude Morton had to be transferred, moving his family to New Orleans, Louisiana and then to Richmond, Virginia.
Morton graduated from Huguenot High School of Richmond, Virginia in 1969. In 1973, he earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Hampden-Sydney College in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia where he was a 4-year-old letterman in football, junior class president , Chairman of the Honorary Board, Who is at the Universities and Universities, and members of the Kappa Alpha Brotherhood. In 1976, Camm received a master of science in horticulture from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida and in 1980 earned his M.B.A. from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
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Careers
From 1976 to 1980, Morton worked for DuPont in Greensboro and Greenville, North Carolina as sales representatives while pursuing his MBA. In 1980, after graduating from East Carolina University, he accepted a position with Rhone-Poulenc in North Brunswick, New Jersey as Manager product.
In 1981, an opportunity to meet with the owner of Kravco Company - a Philadelphia-based regional mall developer - got a job as a department store relations manager working directly for President Kravco, Bob Girling.
Working as President of Retail Development for Western Development Corporation, where Morton will apply the skills of its retail shopping center as a developer tasked with creating Potomac Mills, an outlet mall in Woodbridge, Virginia, in the metropolitan area of ââWashington, DC, Potomac Mills is then considered "one the most significant development in retail "and was the prototype development of the Mills concept, In 1992 it was touted as the state's premier tourist destination.
Morton found his first company, Charter Oak Partners, in 1986. Then affiliated with Rothschild Realty New York, New York, where Morton later became Managing Director, Charter Oak Partners grew to more than 3.3 million square feet of retail assets through development and acquisition of property outlets throughout the United States. It was acquired by Tanger Factory Outlet Centers for $ 491 million.
In 1994, Morton was hired as president and chief operating officer by Factory Outlets of America and later became president and CEO. In 1998 the company became Konover Property Trust and in 2002, was acquired by Kimco Realty (NYSE: KIM) - a Real Estate Investment Investment (REIT) headquartered in New Hyde Park, New York which owns and operates the largest environmental portfolio in America North and community shopping centers - and Chelsea Property Group, Inc. (NYSE: CPG) from Roseland, New Jersey, now a wholesale retail giant Simon Property Group.
In 2002, Morton was recruited by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to manage his commercial property portfolio as president and CEO of Commercial Properties Development Corporation (CPDC). While at the CPDC, Morton proposes and directs the conversion to "REIT" - the Real Estate Investment Trust - and plays a role in leading several significant rebuild and revitalization projects including the renovation of the historic downtown property to the 300-room Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center.
In 2007, Morton formed the hotel management company Ashby Hospitality in partnership with CPRT.
Camm is Principal/Owner of VR Baton Rouge - a business brokerage firm affiliated with VR Business Sales, VR Baton Rouge based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
