Super Women in Business: Kathy Pampuro, EVP, Boyle Investment Company

Memphis Business Journal, October 4-10, 2024

Every year, MBJ honors the top female leaders in the Memphis area with Super Women in Business, presented by Independent Bank.  This marks the 13th Super Women in Business.  And it is indisputably one of the top events MBJ produces, year in and year out.  Ask anyone who has ever attended.  It cannot be missed.  Each year has its own flavor, driven by the personalities of the individual women being honored.  But over time, one also sees the universality of what makes each of them so successful and worthy of being honored:  their intellect, vision, resolve, bravery, creativity, empathy, passion, compassion, energy, and persistence — and, no less, a je ne sais quoi that beguiles attempts to delimit who they are.  And you can see for yourself all the ways those in the 2024 class of Super Women in Business break past convention in the following section.

Kathy Pampuro, Executive Vice President, Boyle Investment Company

Job role/responsibilities:  My primary role is leasing agent:  showing Boyle-owned properties office vacancies to prospective tenants and working with existing tenants on lease renewals.  There’s an array of tasks that go into securing a new tenant and a lease renewal, including working with our in-house space planning team to prepare plans for our prospect’s/tenant’s specific office space needs, working with our space planning team to competitively bid the leasehold improvement work to general contractors, underwriting the analytics of the transaction for proposal and lease preparation, negotiating the lease, and working with our property management team for tenant move in.

Superpowers that would best equip someone entering your profession:  The ability to make tenant reps show up on time for their scheduled appointments or at a minimum only 15 minutes late for a scheduled appointment.

Biggest mentor:  Mark Halperin, COO/EVP who has been with Boyle for more than 50 years.  Mark can sometimes come across like a lion, but he’s a real teddy bear.  He is so knowledgeable, practical in his thinking, honest, fair, objective and humble.  He always has his employees’ backs and gives us all the opportunity to excel in whatever it is that we want to do.