William Hughes, III

William Hughes, III is Managing Director, Investment Management at Colony Capital, Inc. Mr. Hughes is responsible for liquid investment strategies. He is the Portfolio Manager of the Colony Capital Focus Fund and the firm's Commercial Real Estate Securities portfolio. Prior to joining Colony Capital in 2017, Mr. Hughes managed the Focus Fund within Kayne Anderson. Prior to that, Mr. Hughes was a portfolio manager for the Condorcet Opportunity Fund, an event driven hedge fund controlled by Societe Generale. Mr. Hughes has been engaged in value and event driven investing as an analyst and portfolio manager since 1998, and he previously managed similar strategies at Allen & Company and Pequot Capital Management. He began his career as an investment banking analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the financial institutions group. Mr. Hughes is an honors graduate of the University of Chicago with a concentration in economics. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.