Brother Lisle W. Payne, right, talks with Bob Lusch, the executive director of the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management, during the Tucson Alumni Chapter’s Sept. 15 meeting.
Brother Lisle W. Payne, Beta Phi ’64, will be honored as the UA’s Eller College of Management’s Alumnus of the Year at Homecoming on Nov. 4.
It is the second year in a row that the college has awarded the prestigious honor to a Beta Phi Sig. Brother Jon Underwood, ’64, was honored last year.
Payne is a principal of Jackson Street Partners, Ltd., with more than 25 years of operating management and real estate investment experience. From 1967 to 1987, Payne was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Fox Group of Companies. As a founding partner of the Fox Group, Payne has extensive real estate investment management experience in the public underwriting, institutional fund management and advisory sectors of the market. At the time that he left the Fox Group in 1988 to establish Jackson Street Partners, Ltd., the Fox Group employed 1,300 people and the investment portfolio exceeded $2 billion.
In addition to acting as Chairman of Jackson Street Partners, Ltd. and Chairman of the Payne Family Foundation, Payne has served on the San Francisco Day School Summerbridge Advisory Board and as a member of the San Francisco Boys and Girls Club Program Advisory Committee.
Payne has been a guest lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. He was formerly Chairman of the Board of Directors for the California Housing Council and a member of the Policy Advisory Committee for the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He previously served on the Board of Trustees for San Francisco Day School and on the Board of Regents for Saint Ignatius College Preparatory. Mr. Payne currently serves on the Positive Coaching Alliance Board of Directors and is Chairman of the Governance Committee.
Payne holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Arizona and a Master’s of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
He is co-executive vice president of the Tucson Alumni Chapter of Sigma and is a leader in the campaign to raise funds for a new Beta Phi Chapter house.
He resides in San Francisco with his wife, Roslyn and their two sons.