Mr. Jim Grogan
President and CEO
Loreto Bay Company
bio
Jim Grogan is the president and CEO of the Loreto Bay Company. Mr. Grogan has a long and successful track record of leadership in both public and private real estate oriented companies focused on land development, homebuilding, merchant banking, lending, hotel ownership and management, luxury multi-family projects and commercial investments.
Prior to joining the Loreto Bay Company in early 2003, Mr. Grogan served as president of GW Holdings, a diversified real estate investment company that sold its homebuilding and land development operations to a multi-national public company in August of 2002. GW Holdings also developed The Rocks, Scottsdale’s most prestigious private residence club.
Mr. Grogan served as president of Sterling Financial, where he was responsible for managing all aspects of this publicly traded, TSE company. Specifically, he coordinated Sterling’s real estate oriented merchant banking activities, the acquisition and disposition of assets, the company’s hotel division, and the identification of appropriate lending and investment opportunities.
From 1991 through 1996, Mr. Grogan was the managing attorney of Gallagher and Kennedy, a full service business law firm of over 90 lawyers in Phoenix, Arizona. He serves on the board of directors of AMERCO, the parent of U-Haul International, Inc., as well as on the board of directors of Drees Homes (Builder magazine’s “Builder of the Year” in 1998).
Mr. Grogan is active in a number of civic and charitable organizations and was appointed by the governor of Arizona to the board of the Arizona Tourism and Sports Authority (TSA), a public body created to promote tourism and design, build, own and operate a $353 million multi-purpose convention facility and NFL stadium in Maricopa County. Mr. Grogan was elected founding chairman of the TSA by his fellow board members.
Mr. Grogan is a cum laude graduate of both the College of The Holy Cross and the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He served as a trustee of Holy Cross from 1996-2004.