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Sign up for our daily newsletter here When she and husband Chris started Fairlawn Real Estate nine years ago this month, they had 10 employees and 300 units. And now? “Our real estate investment, management and development business has grown to 140-plus employees and 5,400 units,” company CEO GOZEN HARTMAN says. “It has been exciting, fun and a ton of hard work.
” Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Hartman spent most of her youth in C-U, relocating to Urbana with her parents when she was all of a year-and-a-half, then moving to Champaign during her middle school years. In between immigrating here and graduating from Uni High: “two separate sabbatical years to France, which were amazing,” says Hartman, the daughter of two parents in academia and now a mother of four herself. The alumna of the University of Illinois (bachelor’s in civil engineering) and the University of Texas (master’s in transportation engineering) took time out to answer questions from Editor Jeff D’Alessio in the 239th installment of our weekly speed read spotlighting leaders of organizations big and small.
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