J W Kaempfer

Chairman of McArthurGlen, Europe’s largest owner, developer and manager of designer outlets, J.W. ‘Joey’ Kaempfer, Jr founded the company in 1993. After graduating with a BA from New York University’s Washington Square College and an MBA from Harvard University, Mr. Kaempfer went on to found The Kaempfer Company in 1977, a diversified real estate development, management and construction firm based in Washington, D.C. and merged The Kaempfer Company with one of the US’s largest property owning companies, Vornado Realty Trust, in 2003. Mr. Kaempfer is passionate about design and architecture, having worked with some of the world’s most highly regarded architects over the course of his 40 year career in property. In his spare time, he has been a guest lecturer at many universities including Harvard Graduate School of Design and serves on the board of a number of charitable organisations.