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: Paul
Last Name: Hayes
Degree String (Type, Year): (MBA '20)
Job Title: Senior Director, Development
Company Name: The Howard Hughes Corporation
Bio: Paul Hayes is a Senior Director, Development at The Howard Hughes Corporation. Based in Ward Village, Howard Hughes’ 60-acre master planned community in Honolulu, he leads development of mixed-use luxury condominium towers through entitlements, design, sales, permitting, construction, and delivery. Previously, Paul was a Development Executive at CRC Companies where he led the entitlement of a 2,000 unit master planned community in the Bay Area. Before receiving his MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business he was a Designer for Hart Howerton, where he led design of a master planned community on Oahu; repositioning and renovation of five Waikiki hotels; master planning of a luxury hotel, resort, and beach town in Las Catalinas, Costa Rica; and strategic master planning for Mammoth Resorts. In addition to his MBA from Stanford GSB he holds a Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architectural Design & Urbanism from the University of Notre Dame.