John Dragic
John Dragic has over 30 years of experience in property development and finance. John has been involved in the real estate business since 1975, first in his family’s home building business in Pennsylvania and later in Chicago upon graduation from business school. After joining Continental Bank in 1981, he spent several years working on condominium and single family home projects. In 1988, John relocated to London, England to create and manage Continental Bank’s property finance business in Europe. Following that assignment, he returned to Chicago in 1992 and first acted as a relationship advisor in the Banks’ Real Estate Capital Markets Group and then managed a group charged with restructuring or liquidating impaired residential projects accounting for in excess of $550 million of invested capital.
In 1995, John left banking to start a home building business in Chicago. That business has evolved into Greenspire Properties LLC. As president and CEO, John is responsible for site selection, financing, zoning and permit approvals, construction management, marketing and client service. In addition, John was the CFO of Metro Storage, then the seventh largest self-storage company in the US, the COO and CCO of First Bank and Trust of Illinois, and also an SVP-Market Manager at US Bank. During his career, John has been involved in the financing, development and management of over $3.2 billion of property assets.
John holds a BS from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and an MM from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. John lives in Winnetka with his wife and 2 children.
