Our Leadership

Jef­frey C. Hines, Co-Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer and Chair­man of the Board of Direc­tors of Hines, serves as Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer and Chair­man of the Board of Hines Glob­al Income Trust. He became pres­i­dent of Hines in 1990 and has over­seen a major expan­sion of the fir­m’s per­son­nel, finan­cial resources, domes­tic and for­eign mar­ket pen­e­tra­tion, and prod­ucts and ser­vices. He has also led the devel­op­ment of the fir­m’s domes­tic and inter­na­tion­al acqui­si­tion program.

Lau­ra Hines-Pierce serves as the Co-Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer at Hines, where she works along­side Jeff Hines to help shape firm-wide strat­e­gy and man­age key risks. In this role, Lau­ra helps to lead the glob­al real estate firm into its next era and estab­lish its lega­cy as an inno­v­a­tive com­pa­ny dri­ving change across the real estate and invest­ment man­age­ment industries.

David L. Stein­bach is the Glob­al Chief Invest­ment Offi­cer for Hines and Co-Head of Hines Invest­ment Man­age­ment, and serves as a Direc­tor on the Board of Hines Glob­al Income Trust. He is respon­si­ble for man­age­ment of the real estate acqui­si­tion pro­gram in the U.S. and inter­na­tion­al­ly. He is also a mem­ber of Hines’ Exec­u­tive and Invest­ment Committees.

Alfon­so Munk is Pres­i­dent and Chief Invest­ment Offi­cer – Amer­i­c­as of Hines Glob­al Income Trust. He is also Co-Head Invest­ment Man­age­ment for Hines and is a mem­ber of the firm’s Exec­u­tive and glob­al Invest­ment Com­mit­tees. He brings more than 20 years of diverse expe­ri­ence in real estate invest­ing activ­i­ties in the Unit­ed States, Europe and Latin America.

Omar H. Thowfeek is Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer of Hines Glob­al Income Trust. He also serves as Senior Man­ag­ing Direc­tor — Fund Man­age­ment at Hines. He leads the under­writ­ing and cap­i­tal deploy­ment efforts for all real estate acqui­si­tions and is respon­si­ble for the exe­cu­tion of Hines Glob­al Income Trust’s busi­ness plan, oper­a­tions and port­fo­lio strat­e­gy. Omar joined the firm in 2014, and dur­ing his tenure has under­writ­ten over $20 bil­lion in glob­al real estate across mul­ti­ple asset class­es through­out the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Shea Mor­gen­roth is Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer of Hines Glob­al Income Trust. He also serves as Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer of Hines Invest­ment Man­age­ment. He over­sees the port­fo­lio and asset man­age­ment, finan­cial oper­a­tions, account­ing and report­ing func­tions for the funds in the Unit­ed States and internationally.

A. Gor­don Find­lay serves as Chief Account­ing Offi­cer, Sec­re­tary and Trea­sur­er for Hines Glob­al Income Trust. He is also Vice Pres­i­dent – Con­troller of Hines. He is respon­si­ble for the over­sight of the trea­sury, account­ing, finan­cial report­ing and SEC report­ing func­tions for these entities.

John H. Har­ri­son is Head of Port­fo­lio Man­age­ment – Amer­i­c­as for Hines Glob­al Income Trust and is a Senior Man­ag­ing Direc­tor – Invest­ment Man­age­ment for Hines. He has con­tributed to the acqui­si­tion, financ­ing, man­age­ment and dis­po­si­tion of more than 20 mil­lion square feet of com­mer­cial real estate, rep­re­sent­ing more than $7 billion.

Eleni Vakali is Head of Port­fo­lio Man­age­ment – Europe for Hines Glob­al Income Trust and a Man­ag­ing Direc­tor – Invest­ment Man­age­ment for Hines. She has worked on sev­er­al invest­ment funds and sep­a­rate accounts invest­ing and man­ag­ing over €3 bil­lion of com­mer­cial real estate across Europe.

Richard Heaton serves as Chief Legal Offi­cer, respon­si­ble for over­sight of the glob­al Legal, Com­pli­ance and Risk Man­age­ment groups. He is a mem­ber of Hines’ Audit & Com­pli­ance Com­mit­tee, and since join­ing Hines in 2013, he has suc­cess­ful­ly built a high­ly func­tion­ing, glob­al in-house legal department.

John O. Nie­mann serves as Lead Inde­pen­dent Direc­tor on the Board of Hines Glob­al Income Trust. He is cur­rent­ly Pres­i­dent and Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer of Arthur Ander­sen LLP. His sig­nif­i­cant expe­ri­ence in the pub­lic account­ing indus­try, includ­ing over 40 years in var­i­ous capac­i­ties at Arthur Ander­sen LLP, makes him well qual­i­fied to serve as a direc­tor and as the audit com­mit­tee finan­cial expert.

Dou­gal A. Cameron serves as an Inde­pen­dent Direc­tor on the Board of Hines Glob­al Income Trust. He is Pres­i­dent and Own­er of Cameron Man­age­ment, a posi­tion he has held since his found­ing of the real estate firm in 1995. He is a valu­able mem­ber of the Board due to his back­ground in run­ning a real estate firm and exten­sive expe­ri­ence in own­ing, leas­ing and man­ag­ing office buildings.

Dr. Ruth J. Sim­mons is a Pres­i­den­t’s Dis­tin­guished Fel­low at Rice Uni­ver­si­ty and a Senior Advis­er to the Pres­i­dent of Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty. She has served in lead­er­ship posi­tions at col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties since 1977 and is the past Pres­i­dent of Prairie View A&M Uni­ver­si­ty, Brown Uni­ver­si­ty, Smith Col­lege, and past Vice Provost at Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty. She cur­rent­ly serves on the board of direc­tors for a num­ber of pri­vate­ly held com­pa­nies and the Fed­er­al Reserve Bank of Dal­las. She has pre­vi­ous­ly served on the board of direc­tors at Square, Inc.; Chrysler Auto­mo­biles N.V.; Mon­delez Inter­na­tion­al, Inc.; The Gold­man Sachs Group, Inc. and Texas Instru­ments Inc. Her sig­nif­i­cant expe­ri­ence as a leader and inno­va­tor in high­er edu­ca­tion and as a direc­tor on mul­ti­ple pub­lic com­pa­ny boards makes her well-qual­i­fied to serve as a director.

Diane S. Pad­di­son serves as an Inde­pen­dent Direc­tor on the Board of Hines Glob­al Income Trust. She has served as the Chief Strat­e­gy Offi­cer of Cas­sidy Tur­ley and Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer of Pro­L­o­gis. Diane start­ed her career at CB Richard Ellis and Tram­mell Crow and spent over 20 years at the com­pa­ny in var­i­ous roles, includ­ing Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer of Glob­al Ser­vices. She brings the board a wealth of exec­u­tive expe­ri­ence in glob­al com­mer­cial real estate in var­i­ous capacities.

Paul Fer­raro is the Glob­al Head of the Hines Pri­vate Wealth Solu­tions plat­form, as well as a Senior Man­ag­ing Direc­tor with the Hines Cap­i­tal Mar­kets Group. His focus is on devel­op­ing prod­uct strat­e­gy, expand­ing dis­tri­b­u­tion and fos­ter­ing strong rela­tion­ships with­in the sec­tor in an effort to sus­tain and build on the firm’s com­mit­ment to indi­vid­ual investors and their finan­cial professionals.

J. Mark Ear­ley is the Amer­i­c­as Head of Hines Pri­vate Wealth Solu­tions and serves as Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of the bro­ker-deal­er affil­i­ate. He is respon­si­ble for man­ag­ing key Hines dis­tri­b­u­tion rela­tion­ships, and his lead­er­ship has been instru­men­tal in the firm’s $10.7 bil­lion cap­i­tal raise through­out the wealth man­age­ment chan­nel. He also serves on the Cap­i­tal Mar­kets Com­mit­tee of Hines.

John Caru­so is Head of Strate­gic Accounts for Hines Pri­vate Wealth Solu­tions, where he is respon­si­ble for lead­ing the busi­ness devel­op­ment strat­e­gy to grow client rela­tion­ships with­in the pri­vate wealth seg­ment and sup­port dis­tri­b­u­tion efforts. His team man­ages key rela­tion­ships with­in the wire­house, pri­vate bank, inde­pen­dent bro­ker-deal­er and RIA channels.

Charles Cho is Head of U.S. Fam­i­ly Office for Hines Pri­vate Wealth Solu­tions. In this role, he is respon­si­ble for devel­op­ing, main­tain­ing and deep­en­ing rela­tion­ships with new and exist­ing sin­gle and mul­ti-fam­i­ly offices. In addi­tion, he assists in iden­ti­fy­ing prod­uct devel­op­ment pri­or­i­ties and build­ing a com­mu­ni­ca­tion strat­e­gy for the Fam­i­ly Office chan­nel to increase vis­i­bil­i­ty across the indus­try.

Frank R. Apol­lo is Senior Man­ag­ing Direc­tor – Finance of Hines Pri­vate Wealth Solu­tions LLC. He is also the Senior Man­ag­ing Direc­tor – Investor Rela­tions for the Hines Cap­i­tal Mar­kets Group, over­see­ing all investor rela­tions, due dili­gence and knowl­edge man­age­ment func­tions for both retail and insti­tu­tion­al investors.

Dugan Fife is Senior Man­ag­ing Direc­tor for Pri­vate Wealth and Insti­tu­tion­al Cap­i­tal Mar­kets at Hines Pri­vate Wealth Solu­tions LLC. In his role, he is respon­si­ble for man­ag­ing the cap­i­tal rais­ing efforts for Hines-spon­sored offer­ings across the US, Cana­da and Latin Amer­i­ca, and is instru­men­tal in the devel­op­ment of invest­ment pro­grams offered through Hines Pri­vate Wealth Solu­tions and rela­tion­ships across dis­tri­b­u­tion channels.

LeRon­i­ca Hill is Chief Com­pli­ance Offi­cer of Hines Pri­vate Wealth Solu­tions LLC. She is respon­si­ble for the devel­op­ment of poli­cies and pro­ce­dures as they apply to the super­vi­sion of all record main­te­nance and reten­tion sys­tems; the firm’s asso­ci­at­ed personnel’s com­pli­ance with applic­a­ble fed­er­al, state, and des­ig­nat­ed exam­in­ing author­i­ty rules and reg­u­la­tions; financial/​operations sys­tems and require­ments; and sales activities.

Matt Fogg is Vice Pres­i­dent – Share­hold­er Ser­vices & Oper­a­tions of Hines Pri­vate Wealth Solu­tions LLC. He over­sees all investor com­mu­ni­ca­tions as well as the pro­cess­ing, report­ing and record-keep­ing of invest­ments. He also serves as the fir­m’s anti-mon­ey laun­der­ing (AML) pro­gram officer.