Gene Zink is Chairman and CEO of Strategic Capital Partners, LLC.  Prior to founding SCP, Gene spent 26 years with Duke Realty Corporation, a $10 billion real estate investment trust (DRE:NYSE) specializing in industrial, office and retail properties.  Prior to taking Duke public in 1993, Gene was a general partner in the private predecessor to Duke.  After 1993, Gene served as CFO, Executive Vice President and Vice Chairman of the Company. 

Gene joined Duke Realty Corporation in 1982 after practicing law with Bose McKinney & Evans, where he was a partner in the firm. Prior to practicing law, he was a Captain in the United States Air Force. Gene received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vanderbilt University in 1968; a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Hawaii in 1973 and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Indiana University in 1976.

In addition to being Chairman and CEO of SCP, Gene is a Director and member of the Audit Committee of hhGregg, Inc. (HGG-NYSE) and a Director and member of the Audit Committee of Kite Realty Group (KRG-NYSE).  He is part owner and a Director of Midwest Ready Mix.  He past Chairman, Director and current member of the Executive Committee of the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and past President of the Park Tudor School Board of Trust, the Park Tudor Foundation, the CICOA Foundation and the Pleasant Run Foundation.  He also served as a Director at Fifth Third Bank (Indiana), People’s Bank, VEI, Duke Realty Corporation and Windrose Medical Properties Trust.

Gene is co-founder, past President of the Board and current Board member of the Challenge Foundation Academy.  CFA is an inner city charter school located in Indianapolis which has had both State and national recognition for successfully educating children from challenged urban neighborhoods.

Email:  gzink@strategiccapitalpartners.net