BARRY SHOLEM
Chairman and Advisory Partner, BDT & MSD Partners
Barry A. Sholem has served on our board of directors since 2024. Mr. Sholem is Chairman and Advisory Partner of BDT & MSD Partners. He served as head of real estate since its inception when he founded the group and joined MSD Capital as a partner in 2004. Prior to joining BDT & MSD Partners, Mr. Sholem served from 1994 to 2004 as founder and chairman of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners (DLJRECP), a series of multi-billion-dollar real estate private equity funds with investments across the United States, Europe and Japan. Prior to that, Mr. Sholem worked at Goldman Sachs in New York, London, Tokyo and Los Angeles and ultimately led the Real Estate Principal Investment Area and Real Estate Investment Banking on the West Coast. Mr. Sholem also sat on the boards of several public companies including SITE Centers, from 1998 to 2018 and from 2022 until 2024, RVI, from 2018 until 2022, and, since 2023, has served on the board of directors of Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. He is currently a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Real Estate Roundtable, the UC Berkeley Real Estate Advisory Board and the Brown University Presidents Leadership Council. Mr. Sholem received an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Brown University.
- Member of the Compensation Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Sustainability Committee
