Ted Hampe has been a leading commercial broker in Westport, Connecticut for the past 28 years.  After seven years as Senior Vice President of New York-based Cross & Brown Company, responsible for their two Connecticut offices, he founded H T Hampe Associates, Inc., in 1988, which was renamed HK Group in 2001. He resigned as HK's Chairman at the close of 2008 and joined Prudential Commercial Real Estate in February 2009, as a Senior Vice President to open a new office in Westport.

 

While the firm is a full-service organization in brokerage property management, Mr. Hampe has personally concentrated on office leasing and sales.  Over the years, he has completed assignments for numerous major corporations, including: EMC, Matrix One, Procter & Gamble, Mobil Oil, Metropolitan Life, Playtex Products, Commonfund, Westinghouse, Yankelovich Partners, Heyman Properties, The Ryan Partnership and Abercrombie & Kent.

 

Prior to his entry into real estate, he spent 20 years in corporate marketing and held senior executive positions with Procter & Gamble; Glendinning Companies; Sperry & Hutchinson; and Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics (CEO).

 

A graduate of Iowa State University, along with an M.B.A. from Harvard, Mr. Hampe has earned the two highest commercial real estate designations - CCIM and SIOR - through educational courses, examinations and excellent transaction records.

 

Mr. Hampe has chaired the following Westport community service organizations; Chamber of Commerce, Community Council, Rotary, Affordable Housing Committee, and Earthplace, The Nature Discovery Center; also many years of United Way and YMCA board membership plus fundraising.