Ben Weprin

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Ben Weprin (June 28, 1978) is the founder and CEO of AJ Capital Partners, [1] a private real estate company based in Nashville. [2] [3] [4] Weprin and AJ Capital founded Graduate Hotels in 2014. [5]

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Early life and education

Weprin was born and raised in Oakwood, Ohio, a Dayton, Ohio suburb. [4] He graduated from the University of Tennessee. Mr. Weprin completed his MBA at Kellogg School of Management. [6] [4]

Career

In 2008, Weprin founded AJ Capital Partners. In Chicago, he restored the Hotel Lincoln, Chicago Athletic Association, Soho House and Thompson Chicago. [4] The current portfolio includes projects throughout Chicago, as well as the Pontchartrain Hotel in New Orleans and the Thompson Nashville in Nashville’s Gulch neighborhood. [7] He founded Graduate Hotels in 2014 [5] and Marine & Lawn Hotels & Resorts in 2021. Recent projects underway include The Armory in San Francisco; May Hosiery and Nashville Warehouse Company in Nashville, as well as the Rusacks St. Andrews overlooking the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland, which opened in July 2021 and is part of Marine & Lawn Hotels & Resorts. [8]

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