Bryan Southergill

Biography: Mr. Southergill is a Partner and Head of Real Estate Investments at Ares SSG, part of Ares Management Corporation. Prior to joining Ares in 2022, Mr. Southergill was a Managing Director on the Real Estate team at KKR, based in Hong Kong. He set up the Asia real estate equity and credit investing businesses, led Asia real estate acquisitions and was responsible for advancing KKR’s Asia real estate investment strategy. He sat on KKR's Asia Real Estate Investment Committee, KKR’s Asia Real Estate Portfolio Management Committee and KKR’s India Real Estate Non-Bank Finance Company Investment Committee. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Southergill was Managing Director and Head of Asia Real Estate Investing in J.P. Morgan's Global Special Opportunities Group, where he led its proprietary, special situations-style, real estate investing business in Asia. Prior to that, Mr. Southergill was Deputy Head of Asia Real Estate Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley. During his time at Morgan Stanley, he was based in New York, London and Hong Kong, and had responsibility for both real estate investing projects and corporate finance advisory mandates in the United States, Europe and Asia. Mr. Southergill serves on the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (APREA) Hong Kong Chapter Board, is Co-Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Asia Pacific Capital Markets Council and is Co-Chair of the Real Estate Committee for the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. Mr. Southergill holds a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Economics and Political Science from Amherst College.