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.

Alfon­so Munk is Pres­i­dent and Chief Invest­ment Offi­cer – Amer­i­c­as of Hines Glob­al Income Trust. He is also Chief Invest­ment Offi­cer – Amer­i­c­as 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.

Alex Knapp is Chief Invest­ment Offi­cer – Europe for Hines Glob­al Income Trust and for Hines. He is respon­si­ble for devel­op­ing the Euro­pean invest­ment strat­e­gy and grow­ing the plat­form. Dur­ing his tenure, he was respon­si­ble for lead­ing Hines’ major expan­sion into the living/​housing sec­tor on a pan-Euro­pean basis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bill Lehew is Man­ag­ing Direc­tor – Strate­gic Accounts for Hines Pri­vate Wealth Solu­tions LLC. He over­sees the fir­m’s rela­tion­ships with bro­ker-deal­er partners.

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.