Bryan McDonnell- Institutional Investment Leader (#67)

Bryan McDonnell & John Coe Bio Bryan McDonnell is a managing director, head of the U.S. debt business, and chair of global debt for PGIM Real Estate. Bryan is responsible for overseeing PGIM Real Estate’s global debt strategy and execution, including oversight of U.S. real estate debt portfolio management, originations and credit teams, the agency lending business, and the agricultural finance and investments strategies. Bryan chairs the U.S. Debt Executive Council and is a member of the Global Investment Committee, the Global Management Council and the Global Operating Risk Committee. Previously, Bryan was head of portfoliomanagement and investor strategy for the U.S. debt business. Prior to that role, Bryan was based in London and spearheaded the development of PGIM Real Estate’s senior debt investing in the United Kingdom and Europe. In that role, Bryan helped PGIM become one of the most comprehensive non-bank lenders in Europe. Prior to his time in Europe, Bryan held a series of management and investment roles throughout the United States. In addition to his investment roles, Bryan served as an asset manager and was responsible for managing problem loan workouts, bankruptcy strategy, and real estate dispositions across the United States during the global financial crisis. Bryan’s global real estate knowledge comes from nearly two decades of working in PGIM’s London, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta offices. Bryan received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Northwestern University as well as his master of business administration in finance and real estate from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable and the Urban Land Institute’s Global Exchange Council. Show Notes PGIM Real Estate is a subsidiary of Prudential. Series of debt funds and now a full scale investment management business like a private equity firm (6:40)Also manages the Agricultural investments and the Agency lending businesses (7:30)Focuses day to day on:Strategic vision for 5 yrs. looking forward (8:00)Investors in their funds (8:20)Managing and counseling people in their many offices (8:30)Personal history (8:50)Middleton, MA home townPublic school all the way“Below average” until 7th grade (9:50)Dad was a teacher and pharmacist (10:30)Self sufficiency- Paper route from 6 yrs. old on (10:50)Went to Northwestern University– Outside driving radius of his parents (11:30)Studied Civil Engineering after transferring from Chemical Engineering (12:50)Joined an engineering firm, Carollo Engineers, in California and did consulting work (13:30)Moved to Boston to join a civil engineering consulting firm focusing on BRAC projects, which gave him the “real estate bug” (14:30)Returned to graduate business school at Kellogg School (Northwestern University) (15:30)Internship at A.G. Edwards on advisory work in the summerWould have been fined for not showing up for an interview (17:40)Impressed with PGIM’s scope and scale along with its deal velocity (18:00)J...