NEW YORK CITY—Those who follow @GlobeStcom on Twitter and @GlobeStLIVE may have seen a post teasing the rumor of this announcement, but GlobeSt.com officially has learned that Matthew Winn has jumped ship from Cushman & Wakefield.
The former head of retail brokerage has been hired by Olshan Properties, where he'll serve as COO, beginning next month. Winn made the move in order to diversify from retail and to more closely manage both members of a team and investors, he tells GlobeSt.com.
“The opportunity to work with a dynamic, entrepreneurial organization is the one and only reason I left Cushman. Once I met with [CEO Andrea Olshan] and saw what she's been doing and the company's goals, it seemed like a perfect fit. The company has a deep balance sheet and a wide open, blue ocean strategy. Given the institutional relationships I hope to bring, it was an unparalleled chance to get back into more diverse work—including the hotel side, which I quietly was doing at Cushman— and motivate a team across property types. Now I'll have the chance not just to invest but to manage. That's a great opportunity and it's going to be a lot of fun.”
Winn will lead the firm's daily operations and refine its operating policies, procedures, and processes. He also will focus on ensuring growth of the company's platform as well as work to enhance its operational efficiency.
With a career spanning two decades in commercial real estate, Winn has been involved in billions of dollars of transactions and has been a trusted partner in the growth, operations and development of many companies. Most recently as global retail COO and leader of the retail brokerage platform of Cushman & Wakefield Americas, Winn was responsible for all areas of the business including overall strategy, operations, business development and platform growth.
Earlier in his career, Winn led the evaluation and strategic planning exercise that brought Prudential Financial into the conduit market. He also worked on the sale of Prudential Health Care, performed complex loan workouts, developed a new real estate valuation tool with software group, Charter, and crafted custom reports allowing institutional clients and the American Council of Life Insurers to perform comparative analyses across their investment portfolios. During his time with Starwood Capital Group, Winn oversaw corporate and project-specific operations for some of the firm's joint ventures and managed its diverse retail, residential and mixed-use portfolio.
“I am delighted to welcome a partner of Matt's depth and breadth of experience to our firm,” says Olshan. “I am confident that Matt's strong interpersonal and leadership abilities, coupled with his industry knowledge and relationships will help further optimize our existing portfolio and will usher in the next phase of growth at Olshan Properties.”
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Rayna Katz
Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
