Name: Sean Neill
Title: Managing Director and Principal
Company: Transcend Equity Development/Cycle-7, a Transcend Affiliate
Location: Dallas and New York
Birthplace: New Haven, Conn.
Family: 7 nieces and nephews
College: Brown University
First job outside of real estate: Barkeep in a London pub
First job in real estate or allied field: Senior analyst at HR&A Advisors
What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? Transcend Equity Development invests private debt and equity in comprehensive energy efficiency retrofits of large buildings using a unique transaction vehicle that does not impose debt or violate a mortgage. Cycle-7 consults on projects that address the enabling environment for energy efficiency.
Hobbies: Soccer (playing and watching), amateur woodwork, chamber music
Favorite book: "The Enormous Room"
Favorite movie: "A Room with a View"
Favorite website: Arts and Letters News Daily (www.aldaily.com)
Person you admire most (outside of family): Paul Volcker
Keys to success: Deferred gratification, curiosity, and insistence on answers, even provisional answers, to difficult problems
If you had to choose another vocation what would it be? Finish carpenter
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