Lenkin Retires From Public Storage

Harvey Lenkin retired from the Public Storage Inc. Board of Trustees effective Jan. 3 after nearly 20 years of service. Lenkin served in a wide variety of executive positions with the Glendale-based company since 1978. He was named president and a member of the Board in 1991. After retiring from president in 2005 he continued to serve on the Board. “During his 32 years of service in management and on the Board, Harvey was a key contributor in building Public Storage into the world’s largest self-storage company, with over 2,000 self-storage facilities, more than 4,900 employees and a market capitalization of over $20 billion,” said Ronald L. Havner, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of Public Storage. His many significant contributions to the success of the company include completing Public Storage’s first preferred stock issuance in 1992, laying the foundation for affiliated company PS Business Parks to become a public company in 1998, and consummating the Public Storage merger with Shurgard in 2005.