Development Team

JACK L. CURRY is the CEO and founding director of the JL Gray Company and leads JL Gray's premier Development Division. Both active members of their Las Cruces, New Mexico community, Jack and his wife, Charlene, have raised two sons, Jeff and Brian. A graduate of New Mexico State University, Jack went on to be a founding director and president of both the Business Alliance for the Theatre and the American Southwest Theatre. He was president and director of both the Presidents' Associates at NMSU and the NMSU Foundation and has been involved in Mesilla Valley Hospice since 1992. Jack was the founder and president of a commercial construction company for seventeen years, a director at Citizens Bank for eight years and was the CEO of J. Curry & Associates, a professional management training company. Jack has been involved with development and management since 1974.

TOM ANDREWS, our Director of Development, joined the JL Gray Company in February, 2000. He has worked in multifamily development and asset management for over twelve years, with management experience in a variety of federal and state housing production programs. Specifically, Tom is the former Director of Planning and Housing Development for the South Dakota Housing Development Authority. Beginning in November, 1998, as the Housing Tax Credit Program Manager with the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority, Tom administered the low income housing tax credit program in New Mexico until his affiliation with the JL Gray Company. He is a graduate of the University of South Dakota and has a Master's Degree from the University of Colorado. Tom and his wife, Kathy, divide their family time between the very active sports and school schedules of their five children.