Donna Preiss

Since founding TPCO in 1987, Donna Preiss has been an innovative pioneer in student housing, spearheading the creation of award-winning, cutting-edge practices in development, financing, technology, operations and marketing. Today, TPCO serves some 50 College markets from coast-to-coast and has ranked as one of the nation’s largest privately-held, student housing owner/operators for more than a decade. TPCO is the largest provider of off campus student housing in North Carolina.

TPCO partners with a wide array of domestic and international institutional investors located on three continents. The company has completed more than $1.5 billion in transactions over the past three years.

As an operator for its own account and as third-party management company, TPCO properties consistently are rated in the top tier of their respective markets by students and their parents. Over the company’s 30-year history, TPCO has established a wide range of best practices that have become industry standards.

An inventive trend-setter, tempered by her hands-on experience in all phases of student housing, Preiss is a highly sought-after speaker and has represented the industry at conferences worldwide.

She is a member of the NAA National Student Housing Committee and the NMHC National Student Housing Committee. Preiss currently serves on the Executive Committee of the NMHC, the Board of Advisors for the UNC Wood Center for Real Estate Services and the Board of Trustees for Ravenscroft School, and is active in a wide array of charities. She is also a 2018 recipient of one of Triangle Business Journal's CEO of the Year Awards and was recognized among the 2019 Women of

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Preiss received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a M.A. from the University of Maryland.