DOUGLAS WILSON
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Douglas Wilson Companies

450 B. St., Suite 1900
San Diego, CA 92101
Tel: 619-641-1141
Fax: 619-641-1150
Email: dwilson@douglaswilson.com

Website: www.douglaswilson.com

Douglas Wilson is chairman and chief executive officer of the Douglas Wilson Companies which provides a diverse range of specialized business, workout and real estate services for distressed assets throughout the United States.   

The company has grown to become the largest of its kind in the nation, providing workout and problem resolution, asset management, consulting, business planning, receivership, loan and asset sales, development, entitlement and construction management services on more than 700 matters for distressed assets valued at more than $12 billion.  Nearly 100 institutions have been or currently are his company’s clients, including Bank of America, TIAA/CREF, Pacific Life, US Bank, Wachovia, Credit Suisse, KeyBank, Comerica, and iStar.  DWC also has a development arm, building and managing large-scale residential and mixed-use projects in urban settings for its own account.   

Born and raised in the Chicago area, Mr. Wilson later moved to Denver where he graduated from the University of Denver. In the mid 1980s, Mr. Wilson moved to San Diego where he served as the managing director of a company that developed a 1.2-million-square-foot office and hotel tower complex in that city’s emerging downtown business district.  He founded his present company in 1989 which today has offices in Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington, DC. 

Mr. Wilson’s professional organization memberships include the Receivers Forum and Bankruptcy Forum of which he has served as president and treasurer respectively, Urban Land Institute, the Lambda Alpha land economics fraternity, and the International Council of Shopping Centers.   

Active in community and civic organizations, Mr. Wilson is a member of the Rotary Club of San Diego, chairman of the University Club Atop Symphony Towers, a director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, past vice chair of the Downtown San Diego Partnership, and a member of the boards of the La Jolla Playhouse, Museum of Photographic Arts, and San Diego County Metropolitan YMCA. 

Mr. Wilson and his wife, Kathleen, have three sons and reside in Solana Beach, north of the San Diego metropolitan area.