Full Name
David Lynn
Job Title
CEO
Company
Unity Investment Management
Speaker Bio
David Lynn, Ph.D., MBA, MS, CRE is an institutional real estate leader, investment expert, portfolio manager, and strategist, with deep expertise and an outstanding track record in private equity real estate, with an emphasis on healthcare real estate. David began investing in healthcare real estate in the mid 1990s.
He is the founder and CEO of Unity Medical Properties (UMP). UMP is a focused private equity real estate firm investing and managing medical buildings around the country. He founded and served as President of White Oak MOB REIT, where he built a national medical building portfolio and operating company, delivering outstanding, top 5% NCREIF performance. Previously David was founder and CEO of Everest Healthcare Properties, LLC in 2014. He created a portfolio of institutional medical buildings across the country and sold the firm to a leading Fortune 500 multinational firm achieving excellent (top quartile) returns and wining “Best Equity Deal of 2019” awarded by Real Estate Finance and Investment.
Prior to establishing Everest Healthcare Properties, LLC, he was the CIO, Executive Vice President, and Head of Portfolio Management for Cole REIT and Cole Investments. As key leader of the Executive Team, he managed the investment functions for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of private and public real estate funds. David developed and executed strategic plans and played an integral role in deal structuring, negotiations, and delivering tactical direction for acquisitions, dispositions, and fund management. He and team took the flagship portfolio public in a highly successful $12 billion AUM REIT IPO in 2014 (COLE REIT).
At ING Clarion, David was the Managing Director/Partner and Head of Global Real Estate Investment Strategy and Research leading investment decisions and strategies for the $130 billion dollar AUM platform. David was the key architect in transforming the firm from a bottom quartile performer to a top quartile performer. He served on the Investment Committee, the Management Committee and the Global Asset Allocation Committee formulating strategies, managing firm-wide investment processes, underwriting, transactions and making critical decisions on funds, REITs, strategies, and transactions that led to massive performance improvement and increased stature and perception of the firm in the institutional investment world.
Prior to joining ING Clarion, David was the Global Head of Strategy and Research with AIG Global Real Estate (AIGGRE), where he led global investment strategy, creating and implementing successful strategies in the primary and niche real estate asset classes and in major countries and markets globally. He pioneered and implemented emerging strategies and new major and profitable markets for AIGGRE. He also served as Senior Director of Development with AvalonBay REIT, Inc and Vice President for International Real Estate Investments for the Keppel Corporation in Singapore.
He has written over 90 articles and published (John Wiley & Sons/Fabozzi/PEI) six critically praised real estate investment books utilized within the industry and universities including Real Estate Mathematics, Active Private Equity Real Estate Strategy, Emerging Market Real Estate Investment, The Investor’s Guide to Commercial Real Estate.
David holds degrees from MIT, Cornell, Berkeley and the LSE. He received his Ph.D. and Master of Science in Financial Economics, from the London School of Economics. David earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and Sloan Fellowship, from the Sloan School of Management at MIT as well as a Masters in Urban Planning and Real Estate as a Cornell Professional Scholar at Cornell University. David received his bachelor’s degree in Architecture as a Bank of America Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley.
He is the founder and CEO of Unity Medical Properties (UMP). UMP is a focused private equity real estate firm investing and managing medical buildings around the country. He founded and served as President of White Oak MOB REIT, where he built a national medical building portfolio and operating company, delivering outstanding, top 5% NCREIF performance. Previously David was founder and CEO of Everest Healthcare Properties, LLC in 2014. He created a portfolio of institutional medical buildings across the country and sold the firm to a leading Fortune 500 multinational firm achieving excellent (top quartile) returns and wining “Best Equity Deal of 2019” awarded by Real Estate Finance and Investment.
Prior to establishing Everest Healthcare Properties, LLC, he was the CIO, Executive Vice President, and Head of Portfolio Management for Cole REIT and Cole Investments. As key leader of the Executive Team, he managed the investment functions for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of private and public real estate funds. David developed and executed strategic plans and played an integral role in deal structuring, negotiations, and delivering tactical direction for acquisitions, dispositions, and fund management. He and team took the flagship portfolio public in a highly successful $12 billion AUM REIT IPO in 2014 (COLE REIT).
At ING Clarion, David was the Managing Director/Partner and Head of Global Real Estate Investment Strategy and Research leading investment decisions and strategies for the $130 billion dollar AUM platform. David was the key architect in transforming the firm from a bottom quartile performer to a top quartile performer. He served on the Investment Committee, the Management Committee and the Global Asset Allocation Committee formulating strategies, managing firm-wide investment processes, underwriting, transactions and making critical decisions on funds, REITs, strategies, and transactions that led to massive performance improvement and increased stature and perception of the firm in the institutional investment world.
Prior to joining ING Clarion, David was the Global Head of Strategy and Research with AIG Global Real Estate (AIGGRE), where he led global investment strategy, creating and implementing successful strategies in the primary and niche real estate asset classes and in major countries and markets globally. He pioneered and implemented emerging strategies and new major and profitable markets for AIGGRE. He also served as Senior Director of Development with AvalonBay REIT, Inc and Vice President for International Real Estate Investments for the Keppel Corporation in Singapore.
He has written over 90 articles and published (John Wiley & Sons/Fabozzi/PEI) six critically praised real estate investment books utilized within the industry and universities including Real Estate Mathematics, Active Private Equity Real Estate Strategy, Emerging Market Real Estate Investment, The Investor’s Guide to Commercial Real Estate.
David holds degrees from MIT, Cornell, Berkeley and the LSE. He received his Ph.D. and Master of Science in Financial Economics, from the London School of Economics. David earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and Sloan Fellowship, from the Sloan School of Management at MIT as well as a Masters in Urban Planning and Real Estate as a Cornell Professional Scholar at Cornell University. David received his bachelor’s degree in Architecture as a Bank of America Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley.
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