Griffin Capital Lands Big Fish in Non-Traded REIT Pond

EL SEGUNDO, CA-GlobeSt.com exclusively learns that locally based Griffin Capital Securities added Jeffrey S. Schwaber as president of capital markets and head of distribution. Schwaber joins Griffin from Behringer Harvard Real Estate Investments, where he built and managed an industry-leading non-traded REIT sales organization that raised more than $5.5 billion since 2003.

A 27-year veteran of the securities industry, Schwaber brings a wealth of executive-level sales experience to Griffin, where he will focus his efforts on the distribution of Griffin Capital Net Lease REIT and Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II, Griffin Capital tells GlobeSt.com. “Jeff is one of the most recognized and respected securities executives in the financial services industry,” notes Kevin Shields, CEO of Griffin Capital Securities and Griffin Capital Corp. “You can count on one hand the senior distribution executives that have built an organization to Tier 1 industry-leading status, compiled a selling group of several hundred prestigious broker-dealer partners and raised billions of dollars through multiple economic cycles, and Jeff Schwaber is certainly one of them.”