Kevin Shields

Chairman and Chief Executive

Griffin Capital Co.

THE LATEST: Shields' investment firm Griffin Capital raised more than $2.4 billion in equity capital last year, which was an all-time high for the company. This included a platform of interval funds created and managed by Griffin Capital Asset Management Co., which raised more than $1.7 billion last year, bringing the company's total assets under management in 2019 to approximately $4.5 billion.

BACKGROUND: Since its founding by Shields in 1995, Griffin Capital has owned, managed, sponsored or co-sponsored investment programs encompassing approximately $17.5 billion in assets. It sponsors or co-sponsors several public, non-listed real estate investment trusts. The firm's senior executives and employees have co-invested more than $300 million in its sponsored investment verticals. Before founding Griffin, Shields was a senior vice president and head of the structured real estate finance group at Jefferies & Co. Inc. Shields is chairman emeritus of the Investment Program Association and a policy advisory board member for the Fisher Center for Real Estate.

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