Kristin Gannon

Biography: Kristin Gannon has spent 25 years as an investment banker and financial advisor in the global real estate industry. She has transacted over $100 billion in real estate M&A and sale transactions and equity, debt and IPO financings. Kristin is currently a Managing Director at Eastdil Secured. She is based in San Francisco and is global co-head of the Eastdil Secured Corporate Advisory and M&A Group. Kristin joined Eastdil from DBO Partners (“DBO”), a boutique financial advisory firm where she was a partner. Prior to joining DBO, she was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where she was head of the Real Estate banking group in the western region. She served as financial and strategic advisor to several private and publicly traded real estate companies and advised on mergers, sales, divestitures, capital raising and recapitalizations. She also directed the healthcare real estate business and executed several senior housing transactions including the recapitalization of Sunrise Senior Living, Erickson Retirement and Classic by Hyatt. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Kristin was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley for eight years, where she was head of west coast real estate. During this tenure she worked on several notable REIT mergers including the $7bn sale of Spieker Properties to Equity Office Properties, $5bn sale of Catellus to Prologis, $4bn merger of Archstone Communities and Charles E Smith, $2.5bn sale of GE’s Storage USA to Prudential/Extra Space Storage. Kristin is a member of the Policy Advisory Board of the Fisher Center at UC Berkeley and the Urban Land Institute, and a board member of Aim High. Kristin earned a BS in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.