WOMEN IN SELF-STORAGE WOMEN IN SELF-STORAGE


Alyssa Quill


CEO of Storage Asset Management (SAM)


By Erica Shatzer


the industry as its largest inde- pendently owned third-party manage- ment company and repeatedly ranking on Messenger’s annual top operators list. SAM’s path to success was partly paved by its co-founder and CEO, Alyssa Quill, who has been an esteemed, assiduous self-storage pro- fessional for more than two decades. Quill began her self-storage journey


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in 2001 in Memphis, Tenn., as a finan- cial analyst for Storage USA. She had just started to get her feet wet when the company was acquired by GE Capital, the former financial services


ork, Pa.-based Storage Asset Management (SAM) has been in business for 14 years, leading


division of American multinational con- glomerate General Electric, through its purchase of Security Capital Group in May 2002. Under new direction, Quill became a revenue manager, analyzing market trends, pricing strategies, and demand factors to maximize revenue of the 458 facilities. Three years later, GE Capital sold Storage USA to a joint venture


between Extra Space Storage and Prudential Real Estate Ventures for $2.3 billion. Through that deal, Quill was retained by Extra Space as a rev- enue manager. Over approximately 3.5 years with the REIT, she moved up the ranks to vice president of operations (Southeast division).


"He saw something in me that I didn’t even see in myself." - ALYSSA QUILL


“I loved it,” Quill says about working


Rod Lockard, Susan Newcomer, Samantha Hall, Alyssa Quill, Bret Schobel, Lynn Sykes, Paty Shields, Jay Hoke, and Melissa Stiles


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for a large, national company, “and the industry.” The reason she left Extra Space was simply personal: She and her husband, Kevin, had relocated from Tennessee to Pennsylvania to start a family in 2004, and although Extra Space permitted her to work from home, traveling to self-storage


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