Jim Hull is the founder and managing principal of Hull Property Group. He has led the acquisition, development and redevelopment in excess of 70 big-box retail, neighborhood and regional shopping centers, including the acquisition of 33 enclosed regional malls, many of which comprise the Company’s approximate 16 million plus square feet of owned retail portfolio located in 15 states. 

 

Jim is a lifelong resident of Augusta, Georgia and is an active communicant of the Church of the Good Shepherd. He currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. He is also the Chair of the AU Health System and on the boards of the Medical College of Georgia Foundation, State of Georgia’s REACH Scholarship Program, Georgia Research Alliance, Community Foundation of the CSRA, America’s Warrior Partnership and the University System of Georgia Foundation.

 

Jim endowed the Hull Scholars programs at the Hull College of Business at Augusta University, Paine College and Vanderbilt University. He is a long-standing member of the United Way’s Alexis de Tocqueville Society and has been honored with the United Way’s Founders Award. Jim received the President’s Award from Augusta University, the Liberty Bell Award from the Augusta Bar Association and the Philanthropist of the Year Award from the Society of Fundraising Professionals. He is a Rotary Club Paul Harris Fellow, past president of the Augusta Assembly, and has been inducted in Junior Achievement’s Business Hall of Fame and Beta Gamma Sigma’s Honor Society. Jim is a recipient of an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Augusta University.