John is a managing director in the Orange County office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas. He joined JLL as part of the HFF acquisition and is responsible for originating debt and equity placement transactions throughout the western United States. Throughout the course of his career, he has originated and/or executed on a broad range of real estate transactions, including office, industrial, retail, multi-housing and land. He has been involved in excess of $1.6 billion in commercial real estate transactions.

John started at HFF in August 2011. Before that, he worked as an investment director for a regional commercial real estate equity fund focused on opportunistic and value-add investments throughout the western United States. He also oversaw $1 billion in services as a senior business analyst at a Fortune 500 company, and was involved in more than $2.2 billion in equity, debt and strategic advisory transactions as a corporate finance analyst at investment banking firm Lehman Brothers Inc.