Gale Management

Stan Gale Chairman and Managing Partner

Stan Gale
Chairman and managing Partner

Chairman and Managing Partner, spearheads the company's strategic direction, long-term planning, joint ventures and financial partnerships. Mr. Gale began his career in commercial real estate in 1975 with Grubb & Ellis. In 1985 he formed The Gale Company with the goal of creating a diversified real estate investment and services organization and has led The Gale Company, and ultimately Gale International, to a position of prominence as one of the largest commercial development firms in the United States. His entrepreneurial leadership has guided his family of companies from residential real estate, through commercial construction, management and leasing, to the current focus on city-scale international investment and development.

jonathan thorpe
senior executive vice president and chief investment officer

Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, is responsible for international and domestic project financing, investments, business planning and strategy. Mr. Thorpe also leads the company's U.S. West Coast investments and operations. He has been affiliated with Gale International, formerly The Gale Company, since its inception in 1985 and drove the successful development of the company's initial portfolio of office, retail and industrial properties in the New York/New Jersey area. Previously, Mr. Thorpe worked in the Los Angeles Real Estate Investments Office of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, where he was responsible for joint venture, mortgage and purchase investments in commercial real estate properties.

Hean Chang henry Sim
Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer

Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer of Gale International Korea.   In this role, Mr. Sim oversees all public relations and governmental affairs relating to Songdo International Business District.  Mr. Sim is a graduate of the political science department at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and received his master's degree from Seoul National University.   Having begun his career in the central government's Ministry of Justice, Mr. Sim served in various capacities in the Incheon metropolitan government, most recently in 2003 when he was appointed Director of Logistics and IT for the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority (IFEZA).

Tom Murcott
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, provides oversight for all corporate and project communications programs. Most recently, Mr. Murcott was a founding partner of Renegade, a New York City-based, integrated marketing services firm. With 25 years of international marketing experience, Mr. Murcott has helped an impressive list of companies create groundbreaking and measurably effective marketing, PR and branding campaigns, including Fortune 500 multinational brands such as Bristol Myers-Squibb, Canon, Casio, Citibank, General Mills, HSBC, IBM, Matsushita, Merrill Lynch, and Nike. Prior to Renegade, Mr. Murcott spent 10 years at Grey Advertising, working on a variety of blue-chip assignments.

Beom-Young Lee
Executive Vice President of Finance 

Executive Vice President of Finance at Gale International Korea.  Prior to his time at Gale International, Mr. Lee served at various posts of POSCO E&C, where he was the general manager of the Overseas Business Division.  Mr. Lee also spent six years at Posilama E&C, POSCO E&C's Vietnamese subsidiary, as General Manager of the Finance and Management Department.  Previous to his time at POSCO, Mr. Lee was the Deputy Manager of the Accounting and Tax Department of Kosung Co., LTD and he also spent eight years at Kukdong Oil Refinery.  Mr. Lee has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Kyung-Hee University.