DOWNERS GROVE, III.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InvenTrust Properties Corp. (“InvenTrust” or the “Company”) today announced that Mike Phillips, CPA, has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, effective April 10, 2020. Mr. Phillips will maintain his position as controller and his appointment to CAO follows Adam Jaworski’s resignation from the Company.
“We are pleased to announce the promotion of Mike to the InvenTrust leadership team,” said Daniel J. Busch, Executive Vice President and CFO of InvenTrust. “Mike brings an in-depth knowledge of the business after more than a decade of service with the Company. In addition, his significant real estate experience, accounting and SEC financial reporting expertise make us confident that he will continue to build on the strong accounting and reporting platform Mr. Jaworski developed during his time at InvenTrust.”
“I am excited about the opportunity to serve the Company in this new role,” said Mr. Phillips. “I look forward to working alongside the talented leadership team to help build on InvenTrust’s momentum and achieve the Company’s financial objectives.”
Mr. Busch continued, “On behalf of the leadership team, I want to thank Adam for his significant contributions to the Company. We wish him the very best in his future endeavors.”
“I have enjoyed working with a great team at InvenTrust over the past three-plus years,” said Mr. Jaworski. “I wish InvenTrust success in the future, especially during this time of great uncertainty.”
About Mike Phillips, CPA
Mr. Phillips will maintain his role as InvenTrust’s Controller. He has been with InvenTrust from 2009, serving in various senior financial and accounting roles such as Senior Accounting Manager for Financial Reporting and Director for Internal Reporting. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Phillips worked at Pasquinelli Homebuilding for five years, serving as Manager of Finance from 2008 to 2009. He graduated from The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and received a Master of Science in Real Estate from Roosevelt University. Mr. Phillips is a licensed certified public accountant in the State of Illinois.
About InvenTrust Properties Corp.
InvenTrust Properties Corp. is a premier multi-tenant retail REIT that owns, leases, redevelops, acquires and manages grocery anchored neighborhood centers, and select power centers that often have a grocery component, in Sun Belt markets with favorable demographics. We seek to continue to execute our strategy to enhance our multi-tenant retail platform by further investing in grocery-anchored centers with essential retail in our current markets, while exhibiting focused and disciplined capital allocation. InvenTrust became a self-managed REIT in 2014 and a Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark ("GRESB") member in 2018. As of December 31, 2019, the company is an owner and manager of 65 retail properties, representing 10.9 million square feet of retail space.
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