A winner of the NCAA Cross Country Coach of the Year and a Hall of Fame Track & Field Coach, Wayne Vandenburg is the Chairman and CEO of TVO Global Partners. Wayne Vandenburg, a native Chicagoan, continues to be an avid sports fan and in particular follows the Chicago-based professional teams, namely football's Chicago Bears, hockey's Chicago Blackhawks, baseball's Chicago Cubs, soccer's Chicago Fire, basketball's Chicago Bulls as well as the women's basketball Chicago Sky, and women's soccer Chicago Red Stars.
Wayne Vandenburg's professional business evolution began in the field of athletics; playing wide receiver in football and competing in both the long & high jump events in addition to running the 3rd leg on the sprint relay on the track & field team at J. Sterling Morton East High School in Cicero, Illinois before earning an athletic scholarship and matriculating to the University of New Mexico to study architecture. Once at New Mexico, he added both hurdle events to his competitive repertoire in addition to the jump events; after a successful competitive career at the conference level, he then served as the Graduate Assistant Track & Field Coach at his alma mater while attending Graduate School and continuing to lead the team's recruiting responsibility. After a few years, Vandenburg, just three weeks following his 24th birthday. was appointed the Head Track & Field Coach/Cross Country Coach at Texas Western College which soon thereafter became the University of Texas at El Paso ("UTEP"). The rest is history; he immediately laid the foundation, set the program's goals, hit the recruiting trail, and the program soon became one of the most decorated in NCAA Cross Country and Track & Field history both at the team and individual athlete level in all competitive events. National Team and Individual Championships were won in Cross Country and in both Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field and the program produced numerous world record holders as well as Olympic Games' Champions & Medal winners culminating with Bob Beamon's Olympic Gold Medal and World & Olympic Games Long Jump Record.
After leaving the UTEP, Vandenburg entered the professional sports arena with the acquisition of a minor league baseball team, the Texas League's AA El Paso Diablos which was affiliated with the California Angels; joined the International Track Association ("ITA"), the professional track & field circuit as an ITA executive, and additionally performed some special assignment work for the NFL's Dallas Cowboys. Later, he became a league founder and team owner in the International Volleyball Association ("IVA") heading the El Paso/Juarez Sol. He joined league founders and entertainment industry executives David Wolper of the Wolper Organization; Berry Gordy of Motown; Martin Starger & Barry Diller of ABC Entertainment; David Gerber of Columbia Pictures Television; Jerry Leider of Warner Bros Television; IVA CEO and Hall of Fame Volleyball Player Michael O'Hara and Hall of Fame Basketball Player and many time NBA MVP, Wilt Chamberlain in the league's formation.
After several years engaged in the professional sports arena, Vandenburg entered the real estate industry as a broker/work-out specialist where he worked on complicated transactions that required solutions. After achieving a certain level of success, he decided to embark on the next step and sponsor the acquisition of a 160-unit multifamily property in El Paso which proved to be the beginning of a successful real estate investment and management platform and ultimately the formation of TVO Groupe and numerous service affiliates tasked with providing services to TVO-sponsored acquisitions and select third party owners. The company's owned and managed assets were primarily partnered with institutional investors including corporate, state and municipal pension funds along with high-net-worth investors and family offices and totaled over 50,000 multifamily units in 24 states of the United States. The company also entered the hospitality arena with the development of a Hilton-branded hotel and the acquisitions of a Marriott-branded hotel and a Holiday Inn hotel. Along the way, the company acquired investments in the student housing, office, retail, and healthcare/medical office property sectors as well as providing services to industrial/logistics property owners. The company expanded into Mexico in pursuit of replicating its US multifamily platform and further established TVO Europe, a property, facilities and asset management platform, with the acquisition of a Central European focused management company from a Prague-headquartered real estate developer with property assets located in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. Today, the Prague headquartered company, TVO Europe, provides a vast array of services to property owners, developers and investors primarily engaged in residential property investments although it provides services across all property sectors. Prior to the formation of TVO Europe, a TVO affiliated company purchased a substantial interest in a German-based residential and commercial property services and brokerage company with offices in nine cities across Germany; furthermore, a TVO-affiliated company acquired the Europe master franchise rights to Coldwell Banker Residential and Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate Services and established country operating platforms in France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, Poland, and Malta.
Today, Wayne Vandenburg, TVO Groupe's Founder, primarily oversees the family's investment interests in VDB Asset Management ("VDB") sponsored transactions which is headed by David Vandenburg, the former CIO of TVO Groupe and TVO Capital Management. At this point in time, Wayne Vandenburg performs as the Chairman of the Investment Committe and the Advisory Board of VDB and continues his involvement with track & field globally as a member of the Board of Directors of the USA Track & Field Foundation ("USATFF"). He currently resides with his wife in Frisco, Texas.
