Jeff Bucaro

Jeffrey is an executive vice president in the Chicago office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas. He joined JLL as part of the HFF acquisition and has more than 25 years of experience in commercial real estate. He focuses primarily on hotel debt and equity placement transactions throughout the United States.

Jeffrey started at HFF in March 2016. Before that, he was an executive vice president of Business Development at Aries Capital. He has held positions at the former First National Bank of Chicago and ABN-AMRO North America, where he evaluated more than $4 billion in financing opportunities across all property types. He earned his MBA from DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business with a concentration in commercial real estate finance and investment and achieved a certificate in hotel real estate investments and asset management from Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.