Robert Griffin Jr. — U.S. Head of Capital Markets & President of New England Area at Newmark

Mr. Robert Griffin, Jr. has been U.S. Head of Capital Markets and President, New England Area at Newmark Knight Frank since joined it in 2015. Mr. Griffin leads a capital markets team offering multiple specialties, including the marketing and sale of office, industrial, retail, medical and multi-family assets at Newmark Knight Frank. In addition to servicing his clients in Boston, Mr. Griffin focuses on expanding NKF's Capital Markets platform and establishing top-tier teams in gateway cities throughout the U.S., including Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC and Houston. Mr. Griffin also heads Newmark Knight Frank's Boston operation. Mr. Griffin leads one of the nation's most successful capital markets groups, which offers a complete gamut of specialties including office, industrial, retail, medical and multi-family assets. He also works closely with NKF's Boston-based leasing teams on many of their complex, high-profile assignments. Mr. Griffin's team-based, 360-degree approach and extensive experience advising many of the country's major corporations and financial institutions have been game changers for every client with whom he has had the opportunity to work. In his 35-year career, Mr. Griffin and his team have closed more than 800 transactions with total consideration nearing $65 billion. Clients include many of the country's leading institutions, such as Beacon Capital Partners, Boston Properties, Equity Office, Fidelity, Jamestown, JP Morgan, MetLife, MIT, Normandy, O'Connor Capital, Prudential, RREEF, Shorenstein, TA Associates Realty and TIAA-CREF. Mr. Griffin previously served as president of the New England Area for Cushman & Wakefield, where he built one of the nation's most successful capital markets groups and was a key adviser to the firm's Boston area leasing teams. His affiliations includes Member of Greater Boston Real Estate Board; Member of Children's Hospital Boston Board of Trustees; Guest lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Real Estate and Guest lecturer, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Mr. Griffin earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.