Stanford Alumni Real Estate Council (SREC)
Emerging Leaders (EL)
Our SREC EL Members are the future.
Emerging leaders in the industry, they come together with their like-minded peers and fellow alums to accelerate their careers. They network, learn together, exchange ideas, and build year-round and lifetime connections.
Found in all aspects of real estate and the built environment, their ideas and actions are changing the industry.
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Preferred Name: Jack
Last Name: Elzinga
Degree String (Type, Year): (MBA '21)
Job Title: Chief of Staff
Company Name: Home Partners of America
Bio: Jack is currently the Chief of Staff at Home Partners of America, a Blackstone-owned single family real estate business with an innovative Right to Purchase model to help people on their path to homeownership. At HPA, he leads strategic and operational improvement initiatives across the business. Prior to joining HPA, Jack worked in growth roles across management consulting and real estate investment and operations, including: - Growth initiatives, sales & sales operations, and new market development for real estate startups Landis and Zumper - GenAI-based sales improvement, divestiture planning, and supply chain integration for a food distribution company (while in management consulting at BCG) - Competitive sales strategy & operations at Google, focused on enabling & teaching sellers to sell more effectively against competition - Investments (with a focus on location strategy) at LaSalle Investment Management Jack earned a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.