CHICAGO — Waterton, a national real estate investor and operator based in Chicago, has hired Christopher Kersten as vice president of reporting and business intelligence.
Kersten brings 15 years of data management and business intelligence experience to Waterton and will be the company’s expert on Waterton’s business intelligence, data analytics and reporting platform. He will also be responsible for the integration and consolidation of data metrics across the firm’s multifamily, senior living and hotel portfolio.
Previously, Kersten was vice president of data management at Performance Trust Capital Partners and director of business intelligence at OpenHouse Acquisitions.
Kersten holds a bachelor’s degree in economics, a master’s degree in management information systems and an M.B.A., all from the University of Illinois at Chicago.