David is a seasoned commercial real estate investment executive with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, deep professional network, and ~20-year track record of leading more than $4 billion of acquisition and development activity across various property types, markets, risk profiles, and transaction structures. David is driven by a passion for retail real estate and a reimagined built environment that embraces e-commerce disruption, technological and omnichannel innovation, and evolving consumer preferences and retailer needs.
Before co-founding AneVista in 2020, David was Managing Director and Retail Sector Lead at LaSalle Investment Management, a global commercial real estate private equity firm with ~$70 billion of assets under management, where he managed retail and office investment across a variety of markets, served as the firm's retail investment sector lead and was part of a senior team leading the firm's PropTech initiatives. Consistently among LaSalle's top producers during his 16-year tenure, David's expertise included direct property acquisitions, development, and forward commitments, as well as arranging joint ventures, side car investment, recapitalizations, entity-level purchases, loan assumptions, and other heavily structured transactions. His prior experience included dispositions, financings, asset management, and fund structuring. Earlier in his career, David also spent time as both a film industry executive and a health care investment banker.
David holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA from Colgate University. He is active in numerous industry organizations including ULI, ICSC, and NAIOP and you will frequently find him speaking at events, judging competitions, sharing perspectives in trade magazines, or mentoring young professionals interested in the real estate industry.
He and his wife live in Deerfield with their three boys. In his spare time, David enjoys hiking, camping, relaxing over board games and jigsaw puzzles with his family, and coaching his sons' baseball teams, as well as an eclectic mix of movies, music and books.
