Ward joined ICG as Director of Investor Relations in 2002 and has been a Principal since 2005. He is also a principal in Avenue5 Residential, ICG’s affiliated management company. Previously he spent 10 years at Seattle-Northwest Securities where he served as Vice President of Institutional Sales on the bond-trading desk selling fixed-income securities to institutional investors and also as an investment banker for bond-financed real estate projects. Earlier in his career he worked for Honeywell’s Buildings Group in Chicago.

During his tenure as ICG’s Director of Investor Relations Ward has worked with over 1,000 investors to raise more than $500 million in equity for approximately $2 billion in apartment project acquisitions.

Ward received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Tulane University.