About the Author

Chirag “Chi” Hathiramani has about twenty years of principal-side experience in commercial real estate and about $3 billion of institutional transactions. His career includes Vornado Realty Trust, Aspen Heights Partners and Casoro Group, with experience as a CIO. He was named to the GlobeSt. 50 Under 40 in 2020, and he is an advisor to a real estate investment firm in Austin.

He holds an MBA from Georgetown University and an MS in Real Estate from Johns Hopkins University, and he is a Virginia Tech alumnus. He teaches Principles of Real Estate and Real Estate Asset Management at Huston-Tillotson University and serves on the advisory board of its School of Business and Technology, where he supports the school’s campaign for a new building and finance program. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and daughter.

His thinking about clarity and the purpose of a firm has been shaped in parallel by twenty years of institutional real estate and a lifetime as a disciple of Advaita Vedanta, in the Shankaracharya lineage, through the commentaries of Swami Chinmayananda and those who have carried his work forward. Several habits in this book come from that tradition: seeing what is actually there, doing the work without letting anxiety about the outcome spoil it, and coming back to clarity through practice on the days inspiration does not show up. The heart of the tradition, as he learned it, is to see the One in all.