Bill Griffiths

Bill Griffiths serves as the Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Equity Commonwealth. Prior to joining Equity Commonwealth, Bill worked on real estate investment and asset management matters for Equity Group Investments, focusing on capital markets. Prior to his tenure at Equity Group, Mr. Griffiths had similar responsibilities for Helix Funds LLC, a private real estate investment company, where he oversaw financing and participated in acquisitions, management and dispositions for American Residential Communities LLC, a Helix Funds portfolio company. Prior to joining Helix Funds, Mr. Griffiths worked at Equity Office Properties Trust, where he served as Director of Business Development and was actively involved in more than $12 billion of investment activity that included mergers with Cornerstone and Spieker. Earlier in his career, Mr. Griffiths was an Associate in the Real Estate Investment Banking group at J.P. Morgan in New York, where he was involved in a wide variety of M&A, equity and debt financing, and asset sale assignments. Mr. Griffiths holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and B.A. in both Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and Economics from Northwestern University.