John Acken

John joined Capstone in 2008 serving as a Senior Vice President in the Cottage Division. Since Capstone Collegiate Communities began in 2012, John has continued his responsibilities for all aspects of development from market identification, site acquisition, and financial modeling, through construction and lease up as Executive Vice President. John earned his bachelor’s degree from Hampton Sydney, his JD from The University of South Carolina School of Law and his MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Business at Vanderbilt University. John has over nine years of legal and financial experience both in the public and private sector. He has served as the General Counsel to the U.S. federal agency providing oversight for the reconstruction of Iraq. In private practice, he represented clients in the areas of non-profit law, utilities law, land use and zoning law. John also spent four years on active duty as a U.S. Marine Corps judge advocate and prosecutor.