Matthew B. Winn has been appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Olshan Properties in New York
Olshan Properties, one of the country’s leading private owners, developers and operators of commercial real estate, today announced that Matthew B. Winn will join the firm effective January 2015 as chief operating officer. With a career spanning two decades in commercial real estate, Mr. Winn has been involved in billions of dollars of transactions and has been a trusted partner in the growth, operations and development of many companies. Most recently as Global Retail COO and Leader of the retail brokerage platform of Cushman & Wakefield (C&W), Americas, Mr. Winn was responsible for all areas of the business including overall strategy, operations, business development and platform growth. Earlier in his career Mr. Winn led the evaluation and strategic planning exercise that brought Prudential Financial into the conduit market. He also worked on the sale of Prudential Health Care, performed complex loan workouts, developed a new real estate valuation tool with software group, Charter, and crafted custom reports allowing institutional clients and the American Council of Life Insurers to perform comparative analyses across their investment portfolios. During his time with Starwood Capital Group, Mr. Winn oversaw corporate and project-specific operations for some of the firm’s joint ventures and managed its diverse retail, residential and mixed-use portfolio.
