Harvard Real Estate Alumni Organization

DJ Van Keuren – President

DJ Van Keuren is the President of HREAO and one of the organization’s founding members, having helped establish the special interest group in 2009. He has been named one of Family Capital’s Top 10 U.S. Family Office Real Estate Professionals and Trusted Insight’s Top 30 Real Estate Investors at a Family Office. Mr. Van Keuren is the Founder of the Family Office Real Estate Institute and a Co-Managing Member of Evergreen Property Partners.

He has held senior real estate leadership roles for several prominent single-family offices, including the Hayman Family (Giorgio Perfume/Giorgio Beverly Hills & Discus Dental) and the Arsenault Family Office (Mountain High Yogurt), and previously served as President of Real Estate for a family member of an MLB team owner.

Mr. Van Keuren is a member of the Forbes Real Estate Council, a frequent Forbes contributor on family office real estate investing, and the author of Real Estate Investing for Family Offices. He is a regular speaker at family office conferences worldwide and was a Family Wealth Alliance finalist for its Best in Industry Awards for Thought Leadership and Special Industry Contributions.

His work has appeared in Forbes, Family Office Elite, Real Asset Advisor, National Real Estate Investor, and Private Wealth, and he has been cited in The New York Times, PERE, National Real Estate Investor, and Trusted Insight, among others. Mr. Van Keuren previously served on the editorial board of Real Asset Advisor Magazine and as a board member of the Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard. He holds a master’s degree in Management and Finance from Harvard University, completed graduate studies in real estate at the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, and earned his B.A. from Ball State University, where he competed as a Division I baseball player.

Dana Rowan – Treasurer

Dana Rowan is the founding partner of The Exeter Companies (TEC), a Boston-based private equity and advisory firm established in 1998. Exeter has entered into multiple strategic partnerships, including joint ventures with hedge funds based in New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut, as well as a regional private equity and advisory firm under the Paradigm-Exeter Advisors platform.

TEC has invested in projects throughout the United States and internationally, including emerging markets in Eastern Europe and India, supported by its former affiliated office in London. Mr. Rowan has more than 45 years of experience investing in, developing, and raising capital for complex real estate projects, while also providing advisory services to institutional and private clients.

His expertise includes repositioning value-add properties; master planning and developing large urban and ex-urban land assemblages; and redeveloping waterfront properties in formerly obsolete maritime and industrial districts. Following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, TEC’s advisory group provided workout, restructuring, and financial advisory services nationally for Bank of America and other impaired financial institutions and developers throughout the Northeast. TEC has also selectively invested in distressed assets on a regional basis.

Eamon Lorincz – Secretary

Eamon Lorincz is the Secretary of HREAO and a Senior Vice President and transactional counsel at Brookfield Properties Development, the commercial real estate development arm of Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Properties.  In such capacity, he is Brookfield’s lead development counsel for the Yards, a 42-acre premier waterfront neighborhood in Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Riverfront, and supports the division on similar projects nationwide.  He has more than fifteen years of experience representing investors, developers, and lenders, with a focus on real estate equity investments, debt financing, affordable housing, tax credit transactions, public-private partnerships, and joint ventures.

In this role, Mr. Lorincz has negotiated, structured, and closed billions of dollars in commercial real estate financings and investments. Prior to joining Brookfield, he practiced at a large international law firm, a boutique affordable housing law firm, and a public agency.

Mr. Lorincz earned a B.A.S., summa cum laude, in International Relations and Environmental Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. He has served as a panelist, guest lecturer, and author on topics related to commercial real estate finance and affordable housing.

Ashtynn Baltimore – Vice President

Ashtynn Baltimore is a Harvard University alumna based in Chicago. She serves as a Vice President and board member of the Harvard Alumni Real Estate Organization, where she supports the organization’s efforts to connect alumni across the real estate industry and maintain engagement within the Harvard real estate community.

Her involvement with HREAO reflects an interest in fostering professional connections among alumni and supporting programming that strengthens ties between alumni and the University. Ashtynn contributes a thoughtful perspective to the board and supports the organization’s ongoing mission to serve its members and the broader Harvard real estate network.

Evan Linkner – Vice President

Evan Linkner is a member of the Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group in New York City. Founded in 1926, Ackman-Ziff is widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading real estate capital advisory firms, with offices in New York, Boston, and Miami. Since joining the firm, Evan has been involved in structuring and placing more than $1 billion of equity and debt capital on behalf of institutional clients.

Previously, Evan served as Managing Partner of a contrarian real estate opportunity fund, where he led investment strategy and execution. Earlier in his career, he was Vice President of Acquisitions for a Midwest-based real estate investment firm, where he originated, structured, financed, repositioned, and exited distressed real estate assets. His experience also includes developing securitization packages for a merchant bank and performing venture capital valuation analysis for the Zell-Lurie Commercialization Venture Program.

Evan serves on the Alumni Advisory Board of the Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard University, is a member of the Board of Directors of HREAO, and sits on the Investment Committee of the Youth Renewal Fund. He is also a lecturer for the Capital Markets section of Harvard’s Exploratory Course in Real Estate. Evan holds two master’s degrees from Harvard University in finance and real estate, as well as a Bachelor of Business Administration. He received the Marshal Award for graduating first in his class at Harvard.

Jeffrey Olinger – Vice President

Jeffrey Olinger, AIA, is the founding principal of Olinger Architects (OA), where he leads firm operations across architecture, preservation, and applied research. A LEED Accredited Professional, Registered Architect in Massachusetts, and nominee for Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), Mr. Olinger has guided the firm in delivering hundreds of multifamily housing units, integrating high-performance environmental design across market-rate projects, with approximately 25 percent devoted to community-centered, market-affordable housing.

OA is also recognized for its private residential work, emphasizing craftsmanship, innovation, and sustainability. Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Olinger worked internationally on complex infrastructure and logistics projects in Iraq and Afghanistan, and later joined the award-winning firm William Rawn Associates, contributing to major institutional projects for clients including Harvard Business School and the Boston Public Library.

In 2016, Mr. Olinger was named a National AIA Emerging Professional and selected as a presenter at the United Nations Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador. His work has since received multiple awards and patents for innovations in design and architectural preservation. He advises the Harvard Innovation Lab and the MIT Arts Startup Incubator, has taught at Harvard University, Tufts University, and the American University in Dubai, and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design and a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University.