“PEOPLE SPEND 80% OF THEIR LIVES INSIDE A BUILDING. IT SHOULD BE THE HEALTHIEST PLACE THEY ARE.”
—Ned Malik | President
“It was mostly because I had always been involved in real estate. This was actually my second company. I sold my first, and we had a non-compete, so we weren’t able to get back into what we were doing before. We wanted to do something related to real estate… and then, of course, the 2008– 2009 crisis hit.”
“We wanted to build homes that were green and sustainable and would provide the owners a healthier environment to live in,” he says. “People spend most of their lives indoors and the quality of that environment matters.”
A Mind Built for Building
Ned’s vision for GBG is sharpened by a rare trifecta of expertise: engineering, business, and law. “I have an engineering degree from George Washington University,” he explains. “That helped me understand the dynamics of solving puzzles and putting things together. How to break a problem down into smaller chunks and solve it at its very core. My MBA from Johns Hopkins helped me understand the business end of things, and my law degree helped me understand the legal dynamics of running a business.” It’s this multi-lens perspective that allows him to approach construction like both an art and a system — deeply creative, yet relentlessly precise.
NED MALIK | PRESIDENT
With traditional brokerage faltering, Ned saw an opening and a responsibility. “We pivoted to development work,” he says, “and started focusing on providing sustainable construction, which I thought was much needed in the industry, because it’s a very old-school industry that doesn’t really change very often.” That decision would reshape not only Ned’s career but also the landscape of luxury building in the DMV.
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