Full Name
Lili Dunn
Job Title
CEO/President
Company
Bell Partners Inc.
Speaker Bio
Ms. Dunn joined Bell Partners in 2010 and assumed the role of President in 2016 and CEO in 2022. She
oversees all aspects of the Company's business. Ms. Dunn is also responsible for guiding the Company's investment strategy, broadening its institutional capital sources, strengthening the corporate platform, and directing financing initiatives. Under Ms. Dunn’s leadership, Bell Partners’ total assets have grown to approximately $10B. Prior to joining Bell Partners, Ms. Dunn was a 20-year veteran with AvalonBay Communities, a leading public apartment REIT and a member of the S&P 500, and Trammell Crow Residential, its predecessor entity. In her role as Managing Director at AvalonBay, she was responsible for the company's national transaction and renovation activities, market research efforts and helped raise and oversee AvalonBay's discretionary institutional investment vehicles.
Ms. Dunn is on the Executive Board of the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) and was Chairperson of its Finance Committee from 2006 to 2010. She is Vice Chair of the Multifamily Gold Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and is on the Board of Directors for the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE).
She is also a member of Pension Real Estate Association (PREA). Ms. Dunn was named Executive of the Year by Multi-Housing News in 2021, was awarded Executive of the Year by Multifamily Executive in 2023, was named by GlobeSt.com as a 2025 Woman of Influence and a 2025 Multifamily Influencer, and was recognized as a 2025 Investor of the Year by ApartmentBuildings.com. Ms. Dunn is an active member of several mentoring programs within the real estate industry and regularly supports organizations helping families in poverty. Ms. Dunn earned her BBA from the University of Michigan where she graduated with highest honors. Established in 1976, Bell Partners Inc. is a privately held apartment investment and management company focused on quality multifamily rental communities throughout the United States. The Company manages almost 65,000 apartment homes in 12 regions across the U.S., including communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California, Washington, Texas, Colorado, the Southeast, Washington D.C., and Boston. With approximately 1,800 associates and nine offices, Bell Partners offers an extensive full-service vertically integrated national platform of expertise in acquisitions and dispositions, construction, financing, property operations, accounting, risk management, and related support functions. Led by a senior management team with an average 27 years of experience navigating marketing cycles, Bell Partners has invested throughout all
phases of the real estate cycle and has completed $11.9B of realized apartment transactions since 2002. With a focus on the customer, Bell pairs its corporate infrastructure with a deep local presence to drive performance. For more information, visit bellpartnersinc.com.
oversees all aspects of the Company's business. Ms. Dunn is also responsible for guiding the Company's investment strategy, broadening its institutional capital sources, strengthening the corporate platform, and directing financing initiatives. Under Ms. Dunn’s leadership, Bell Partners’ total assets have grown to approximately $10B. Prior to joining Bell Partners, Ms. Dunn was a 20-year veteran with AvalonBay Communities, a leading public apartment REIT and a member of the S&P 500, and Trammell Crow Residential, its predecessor entity. In her role as Managing Director at AvalonBay, she was responsible for the company's national transaction and renovation activities, market research efforts and helped raise and oversee AvalonBay's discretionary institutional investment vehicles.
Ms. Dunn is on the Executive Board of the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) and was Chairperson of its Finance Committee from 2006 to 2010. She is Vice Chair of the Multifamily Gold Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and is on the Board of Directors for the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE).
She is also a member of Pension Real Estate Association (PREA). Ms. Dunn was named Executive of the Year by Multi-Housing News in 2021, was awarded Executive of the Year by Multifamily Executive in 2023, was named by GlobeSt.com as a 2025 Woman of Influence and a 2025 Multifamily Influencer, and was recognized as a 2025 Investor of the Year by ApartmentBuildings.com. Ms. Dunn is an active member of several mentoring programs within the real estate industry and regularly supports organizations helping families in poverty. Ms. Dunn earned her BBA from the University of Michigan where she graduated with highest honors. Established in 1976, Bell Partners Inc. is a privately held apartment investment and management company focused on quality multifamily rental communities throughout the United States. The Company manages almost 65,000 apartment homes in 12 regions across the U.S., including communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California, Washington, Texas, Colorado, the Southeast, Washington D.C., and Boston. With approximately 1,800 associates and nine offices, Bell Partners offers an extensive full-service vertically integrated national platform of expertise in acquisitions and dispositions, construction, financing, property operations, accounting, risk management, and related support functions. Led by a senior management team with an average 27 years of experience navigating marketing cycles, Bell Partners has invested throughout all
phases of the real estate cycle and has completed $11.9B of realized apartment transactions since 2002. With a focus on the customer, Bell pairs its corporate infrastructure with a deep local presence to drive performance. For more information, visit bellpartnersinc.com.
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