A commercial real estate executive with more than 40 years of experience, he has led some of the industry’s most complex and high-profile development and investment initiatives. As a former President and CEO, he has overseen sophisticated real estate organizations and directed large-scale, mixed-use and multi-billion-dollar urban redevelopment projects. His expertise spans acquisitions and dispositions; structuring and negotiation of leases and ground leases; land use planning and entitlement; public/private partnerships; construction oversight; asset and property management; and detailed financial and economic analysis. He has extensive experience evaluating complex ownership and transaction structures, including stock transfers and layered holding entities, and has negotiated multi-tiered financing arrangements across office, retail, hotel, residential, industrial, and mixed-use assets.

He also brings more than 10 years of expert witness experience, having provided deposition and trial testimony in state and federal courts in matters involving lease disputes, ground lease interpretation, shopping center transactions, customary industry practices, standards of care, and complex real estate mergers and acquisitions. Courts have qualified him to render expert opinions regarding commercial leasing practices, landlord-tenant obligations, valuation issues, and the calculation of damages and lost profits in real estate disputes.

In addition, he serves on the Panel of Arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association and has held leadership roles in prominent real estate industry organizations.