“There are a host of exciting opportunities in the thriving alternative investments arena,” says Hall. “Pacific Oak will leverage our well-established relationships and industry expertise to continue to deliver these opportunities to financial advisors and their clients throughout the United States. Pacific Oak is dedicated to the independent broker-dealer channel, and when an advisor is in need of value-add products, we want to provide the solution.”

Prior to co-founding KBS Capital Advisors in 2005, Hall served as a managing director with Credit Suisse First Boston, where he managed distribution strategy and business development for the Principal Transaction Group's real estate securities portfolio. In this capacity, his two primary business unit responsibilities were mezzanine lending and commercial real estate development. Before joining CS First Boston in 1996, he served as a director in the real estate products group at Nomura Securities. He was responsible for the company's distribution and trading of fixed-income commercial mortgage-backed securities. Hall spent the 1980s as a senior vice president in the high-yield department of Drexel Burnham Lambert's Beverly Hills, CA office where he was responsible for the distribution and trading of the group's high-yield real estate securities.

McMillan previously served as the executive vice president and chief investment officer of SunAmerica Investments, Inc., which was later acquired by AIG. As CIO, he was responsible for more than $75 billion in assets, including residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, public and private investment-grade and non-investment-grade corporate bonds and commercial mortgage loans and real estate investments. Before joining SunAmerica in 1989, he served as assistant vice president for Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity Co. with responsibility for the company's $6-billion fixed-income portfolios.