Dell Loy Hansen
Dell Loy Hansen is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Wasatch Group and is responsible for the overall management of its enterprises and affiliates. Mr. Hansen is involved in all aspects of commercial and multi-family real estate development, construction, acquisition, sales, leasing, financing, and entitlement.
His entrepreneurial spirit has led the Company into various real estate related business ventures that complement the Company's portfolio of commercial and multi-family assets.
Mr. Hansen served on the Governor's Board of Business and Economic Development for the state of Utah under Governor Mike Leavitt and on the committee for Utah's Industrial Assistance Fund. He is a major contributor to the Hansen Scholars Foundation, which offers scholarships to the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University for underprivileged students and has founded 11 other charitable foundations benefitting various needs in the state of Utah.
An avid sports fan, Mr. Hansen currently serves on the Utah Sports Commission Board. Mr. Hansen obtained a bachelor's degree in political science from Utah State University and maintains residences in Logan, Utah and Carlsbad, California.
Dell Loy Hansen, Founder and CEO
About Wasatch
Dell Loy founded The Wasatch Group in 1988 on the heels of the nation's savings and loan crisis. He created the company by purchasing well-located multi-family apartment buildings in his hometown of Logan, Utah from Resolution Trust Corp., a federal government agency that seized assets from troubled financial institutions and resold the properties to bargain-seeking investors.
From that start, Dell Loy has grown the Wasatch Group to become a fully integrated real estate development, construction, property management and guarantee capital company, with holdings that include 16,344 apartments plus commercial properties with assets totaling $4 billion dollars, employing 900 associates.
Wasatch Logan Corporate Headquarters
In 1993, Mr. Hansen purchased his first commercial office property, the Woodlands Business Park in Salt Lake City. Now among Wasatch’s commercial holdings are high-profile Salt Lake properties such as Wells Fargo Center, the Ken Garff Building, Questar Corporate Center, Draper Corporate Park; Marketstar Building, Ogden; and Riverwoods Shoppes in Logan, as well as SpringHill Suites, Riverwoods Conference Center, and Four Seasons Event Center in Logan. The Wasatch Group owns and manages more than 4 million square feet of commercial property in Utah, California, Arizona and Washington, including the new upscale Washington Square development in Bellevue — along with 67 multifamily residential properties in five western states.
Mr. Hansen is an owner in nearly a dozen venture companies located across Utah, Idaho and California, chief among the Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer. Other companies range from a recycling and waste disposal company in Sacramento, California to sports and fitness clubs throughout Utah and Idaho. Other holdings include a plastic injection & molding company, wood milling company and a golf course at Bear Lake, Utah, as well as one of the largest utility management and billing companies in the United States.