Founder

Jane E. Mather, Ph.D.

President

Dr. Mather has been creating value through innovation for nearly twenty years.  As President of Critical Core, Inc., her expertise and experience enable Critical Core's consulting practice to go beyond standard real estate reviews to address complex portfolio situations and provide strategic planning in uncertain business environments. 

Dr. Mather has extensive experience advising corporations and other large organizations about real estate and infrastructure management and developing software solutions to meet their needs.  In developing Critical Core's proprietary software Core Planning, she pioneered the application of portfolio optimization techniques regularly used in financial investment analysis and supply-chain management to corporate real estate management. 

Her current work advising corporations builds on many years of experience in different facets of the real estate industry.  At LaSalle Partners and at BCED, the real estate development subsidiary of Bell Canada, she provided real estate investment advisory and research services.  She also has practical experience in property management, leasing, and tenant representation.  Based on her experience and academic training, she developed and taught full-quarter courses on real estate at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. 

Before entering the real estate industry, Dr. Mather taught economics at The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, at Dartmouth College, and at Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics in Wuhan, China.  She earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University.

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