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CBRE Investment Management Welcomes Bryan McGovern to Americas Direct Real Estate Team
May 29, 2025
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Bryan McGovern has joined CBRE Investment Management as Senior Director, responsible for developing and executing financing strategies across the firm’s Americas Direct Real Estate portfolio.
McGovern, in this role, is responsible for sourcing and structuring acquisition financing and day-to-day management of the platform’s existing loan portfolio. He will also help optimize processes, procedures, and risk management practices for portfolio and transaction management across the Americas platform. Additionally, he will help manage lender and brokerage relationships and will support portfolio management teams in capital raising and client engagement efforts.
McGovern will be based at CBRE Investment Management’s 200 Park Avenue office in NYC, and will report to Ty Gerschick, Managing Director and Head of Debt Capital Markets for the Americas Direct Real Estate Team.
“I am pleased to welcome Bryan to the team, who has hit the ground running, immediately providing additional transactional support,” Gerschick said. “Bryan brings with him deep expertise and transactional experience in our space, an esteemed reputation among a deep network of relationships and a strong cultural alignment with CBRE Investment Management. His joining marks a significant milestone for our team and our platform as we continue to enhance our ability to deliver exceptional outcomes for our investors.”
Prior to joining CBRE Investment Management, McGovern spent nine years in a similar role at real estate investment management firm Rockwood Capital. Earlier in his career, McGovern held analyst and associate roles at CIT Bank.
“I’m thrilled to join CBRE Investment Management at such a dynamic time for the firm,” McGovern said. “I’ve long admired the strength of the platform and am excited to contribute to its continued growth. I look forward to leveraging my experience and relationships to help drive thoughtful, strategic execution alongside a team whose culture and vision deeply resonate with me.”
McGovern earned a Bachelor Degree in International Business from Loyola University Maryland and holds a Certificate in Real Estate Finance and Investment from NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate.
About CBRE Investment Management
CBRE Investment Management is a leading global real assets investment management firm with $149.1 billion in assets under management* as of March 31, 2025, operating in 20 countries around the world. Through its investor-operator culture, the firm seeks to deliver sustainable investment solutions across real assets categories, geographies, risk profiles and execution formats so that its clients, people and communities thrive.
CBRE Investment Management is an independently operated affiliate of CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE), the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2024 revenue). The company has more than 140,000 employees (including Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE Investment Management harnesses CBRE’s data and market insights, investment sourcing and other resources for the benefit of its clients. For more information, please visit www.cbreim.com.
*Assets under management (AUM) refers to the fair market value of real assets-related investments with respect to which CBRE Investment Management provides, on a global basis, oversight, investment management services and other advice and which generally consist of investments in real assets, equity in funds and joint ventures, securities portfolios, operating companies and real assets-related loans. This AUM is intended principally to reflect the extent of CBRE Investment Management’s presence in the global real assets market, and its calculation of AUM may differ from the calculations of other asset managers and from its calculation of regulatory assets under management for purposes of certain regulatory filings.