Le Roy "Terry" Eakin, III
Cofounder and Chairman
EYA, LLC
Terry Eakin is a cofounder and chairman of EYA, a builder of urban sales housing in the Washington, D.C., area. EYA is a privately held company that delivers about 300 new town homes and condominiums in smart growth locations, generally within the Washington Beltway.
Prior to founding EYA in 1993, Mr. Eakin was the senior vice president and a general partner for more than years at The Holladay Group, a diversified real estate development company in the Washington, D.C., area.
Mr. Eakin graduated from Princeton University in 1966 and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1968.
EYA is a national leader in residential urban revitalization and has been highly recognized in recent years. In 2000, the firm was designated as America's Best Builder by the National Association of Home Builders and Builder magazine, and in 1998 the Urban Land Institute gave one of EYA's developments its Award of Excellence as the best small-scale residential project in North America. EYA projects have won more than 154 national and local real estate development awards for excellence in the last 14 years. In addition, Mr. Eakin was recognized as a Washington Area Entrepreneur of the Year in the early growth stages of EYA.
Mr. Eakin has been active in community affairs serving on a variety of school and hospital related boards. Today his most significant involvement is as chairman of the board of D.C. Prep Public Charter Schools, a growing group of high performance public charter schools in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Eakin and his wife, Lindsay, live in Washington, D.C. Since 1970, Mr. Eakin has been an active member of STANCO Inc., an organization of about 60 Stanford GSB '68 classmates that has met annually, first in the United States and now around the world.
