Doug Lyons

Mr. Lyons is a Managing Principal of Pearlmark, with responsibility for the firm’s capital markets and debt investment activities. He is a member of the firm’s Investment and Management Committees and sits on Pearlmark’s Board of Managers. Prior to joining Pearlmark in 1996, Mr. Lyons was Vice President of Equity Institutional Investors, Inc. where he was responsible for merchant banking activities and strategic portfolio management projects for the Zell/Merrill Lynch Real Estate Opportunity funds, the Zell/Chilmark Fund, and an institutional portfolio of REIT stocks. Previously, he worked in the New York Real Estate Capital Markets groups for Bankers Trust and Merrill Lynch & Co.

Mr. Lyons earned a BA degree in History from Amherst College where he was a two-time All-American in soccer, and an MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business. He serves as Vice-Chair of the Harvard Alumni Real Estate Board. Mr. Lyons is also a member of the Pension Real Estate Association and the Urban Land Institute, where he is a Trustee and Vice Chair of the Chicago District Council. Mr. Lyons is also a Board Director and Treasurer of the US Soccer Foundation.