Thomas Samuels Email & Phone Number

Thomas Samuels is the founder and Principal of Thomas Samuels Enterprises (TSE). Mr. Samuels founded TSE to provide comprehensive Development Management, Program Management, Owner’s Representation, and Strategic Advisory Services to the design and construction industry and to pursue opportunistic real estate development. TSE is positioned to assist private and public sector organizations, institutions and public/private partnerships to achieve their development objectives. Services provided by the company include strategic planning, feasibility assessments, team building, project structuring, and project implementation services. Mr. Samuels also serves as the Director of Client Strategies for Epstein, an international architecture, engineering and construction company headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York and Eastern Europe.Mr. Samuels also serves as a Faculty Fellow at Cornell University teaching core courses in the Masters Degree in Real Estate Program.Prior to founding TSE, Mr. Samuels was Executive Vice President of Higgins Development Partners (HDP) and a Member of its affiliated investment and asset management single purpose entities. Mr. Samuels led the company’s Public Sector and Institutional Development Division for 18 years and was responsible for all public, institutional, public/private partnership, hospitality, and life sciences projects undertaken by the company. Prior to joining HDP, Mr. Samuels was Vice President and a Managing Principal at Lohan Associates, now Lohan Anderson, a national architecture firm that grew to 125 employees with over $12 million in annual sales during Mr. Samuels’ tenure. Mr. Samuels received an MBA and a Masters Degree in City Planning from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Cornell University and he is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects.Specialties: Development Management, Program Management, Owner’s Representation, and Strategic Advisory Services to the design and construction industry, and Real Estate Development