Andrew Hunt
Andrew HuntMarquette University

O'Brien Hall, 328A

MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America(414) 288-6020Office Hours Booking

Director for the Vieth Institute for Real Estate Leadership

Andy Hunt serves as the inaugural director for the Vieth Institute for Real Estate Leadership at Marquette University. Working closely with deans and faculty across the colleges of business, engineering and law, Andy is responsible for carrying out the mission of the Vieth Institute and oversight of all day to day administration of the Institute’s focus areas of interdisciplinary initiatives and applied learning. Duties include oversight of all fundraising initiatives, oversight of the Real Estate Asset Program (REAP) – the first undergraduate-only classroom-based real estate investment program in the nation, management of the Institute’s four major annual events in Milwaukee and Chicago, oversight of all student-success initiatives and related staff leaders, coordination of the Associates in Commercial Real Estate (ACRE) program and curriculum aimed at diversifying talent in the real estate industry, teaching REAL 4061 – Real Estate modeling at the undergraduate level, and growing partnerships with local and national industry organizations. Andy also works closely with two incredible boards, including the Vieth Institute for Real Estate Leadership Advisory Board and the REALM (Real Estate Alumni Marquette) Network Board.

Prior to joining Marquette as the Director of the Center for Real Estate, Andy and his wife spent 3.5 years in Denver, Colorado, where Andy worked in acquisitions with Real Capital Solutions (RCS), focusing on office and industrial asset investments in a dozen markets across the U.S. Before joining RCS, Andy spent nearly two years with Prologis, the global leader in logistics and industrial real estate ownership and management, where he worked on more than 70 transactions worth over $1 billion in value as part of the Investment Services team. Andy started his career as a broker with UGL Equis (now Cushman & Wakefield) in the Minneapolis office, and then spent four years at Marquette working as the assistant and then associate director for the Center for Real Estate, where he helped diversify the Center’s revenue streams, create the annual Strategies conference, kicked off both the Center Advisory Board and REALM board, enhanced the student experience through conference trips and career mentoring, and built relationships with the real estate communities in Chicago and Milwaukee.

Andy is a recipient of the 2021 Milwaukee Business Journal “40 Under 40” award and the 2021 NAIOP National Developing Leaders award, and he received both his B.S. in Business Administration (majoring in real estate and finance) and his Masters in Business Administration (specialization in finance) from Marquette University. Andy and his wife Catherine have three children and reside in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin.