Executive Bio
Mr. Michael Lehrman co-founded CCRE in January 9, 2017 and served as its Co-Chief Executive Officer since January 9, 2017 until March 13, 2017. Mr. Lehrman is a Co-Founder of Cantor Commercial Real Estate Company, L.P. and previously served as its Co-Chief Executive Officer. He served as Executive Managing Director and Deputy Head of Investment Banking at Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P until May 2, 2016. With a significant presence in mortgage, high grade corporate, agency, treasury, repo and asset backed securities trading, the firm is a global leader in institutional equity and fixed income sales and trading. He served as Global Head of Real Estate at BGC. Mr. Lehrman was responsible for BGC's real estate platform encompassing Newmark Knight Frank and assets of Grubb & Ellis, currently being integrated, with more than 100 offices in North America and 250 million square feet in Property and Facilities Management. Prior to joining Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., he was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse and Co-Head of the Credit Suisse Real Estate Direct Group where he was responsible for over $100 billion in North American real estate loan origination and over $30 billion of high yield real estate debt and equity distribution. Mr. Lehrman oversaw the expansion of the business in the U.S., Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East, with offices in Dubai and Mexico City. He served as Chairman of Cantor Commercial Real Estate. Mr. Lehrman is a graduate of Columbia Business School where he received an MBA in Real Estate and Finance, New York University where he received a diploma in Real Estate and Carnegie Mellon University where he received Bachelor of Science degrees in both Industrial Management and Managerial Economics.