Jennifer Beese
President, Chief Operating Officer, American Campus Communities, Inc.
Bee Cave, TX 78738
Oversees marketing and leasing, customer service, human resources, training, and corporate administration and company culture
Phone (512) 732-1000
Oversees marketing and leasing, customer service, human resources, training, and corporate administration and company culture
Property Types
Multifamily
Markets
Austin
Bio
As ACC President and Chief Operating Officer, Jennifer is the responsible for guiding the company’s success, preserving and advancing culture, and mentoring and developing the ACC team. Beese leads all company operations with more than 2,900 employees under her supervision. Her oversight encompasses marketing and leasing, customer service, human resources, training, and corporate administration and company culture. Jennifer also oversees their Inside Track employee development program, as well as their unmatched residence life program.
Under her leadership, ACC has consistently achieved industry-leading occupancy and 15 straight years of same-store growth in the areas of revenue, rental rate, rental revenue, and net operating income (excluding pandemic). Jennifer has played a critical role in the development of ACC’s proprietary systems, including NextGen and their business intelligence initiatives. Working with their CEO, Bill Bayless, Jennifer developed the initial flowcharts for their Leasing Administration and Marketing system, LAMS – a pioneering technology platform that had never before existed in student housing that has been a driving force in the success of the company as a whole.
Since Jennifer joined ACC as a regional manager 20+ years ago, she has held a variety of positions in property management, on-campus business development, and their training department. Her roots in student housing extend back to her college days, during which she worked on-site in property management.
After graduation, she joined JPI and worked on-site in their first purpose-built student housing community, then moved on to the training department at the corporate offices, working to develop onsite employees in both multi-family and student housing. Her experience and expertise in both student and multi-family housing are invaluable assets to their team.
On the charitable front, Jennifer was instrumental in the formation of American Campus Charities Foundation, which supports charitable activities focused on disadvantaged youth and education in ACC’s hometown of Austin, Texas, as well as in the local markets served by ACC’s communities. The Foundation has raised in excess of $1 million for the causes consistent with its focus. Jennifer also serves on the board of the Rise School, Austin's first and only school dedicated to inclusive early education for children with and without disabilities. The Rise School of Austin uses individualized learning techniques to enable every child to achieve his or her maximum potential.
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