About the blogger

My name is Nick Ruiz and I am an MBA student at The University of Memphis and this blog is part of MGMT 7160.

I was born in California but raised in Arizona. I relocated to Nashville, TN in 2015 for work and love the change of environment from desert heat to southern humidity. People here think i’m crazy for loving the humidity, but I would take sweat over scorching skin any day!

I work in the healthcare industry and have chosen this semester to follow Simon Property Group. I have always loved real estate (especially commercial real estate) and even though the retail industry has changed and yesterdays malls are now dead, Simon has managed to thrive in an otherwise dying industry. I hope to learn more about the company as I dig in to their operations and hopefully my readers will too.

I am huge University of Arizona sports fan, although NOT living in Mountain/Pacific time has its pitfalls since every game/tip off is 9:00 PM or later.

In addition to UA, I absolutely love the New England Patriots and even named my son after the one-and-only Tom Brady.