Jean Schlemmer

Jean Schlemmer is executive vice president and chief corporate development officer for General Growth Properties, Inc. She is responsible for GGP's organizational and administrative initiatives including sustainability and marketing. Schlemmer joined General Growth Properties in 1989 when General Growth acquired The Center Companies, a Minneapolis-based shopping center management company. She held a variety of supervisory positions in leasing until she became senior vice president of asset management for 55 wholly-owned regional malls in 1997. In 2000, she became executive vice president of asset management, with oversight responsibilities for all GGP's owned and joint venture partnership shopping centers, third party management, business development, and marketing, a role she held until she was promoted to her current position in December 2005. Schlemmer graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BA in Journalism. She spent two years working as a reporter and editor at the Mexico City News and returned to the university for graduate work in American Studies.