Kevin Shannon is widely considered to be one of the premier investment sales brokers in the United States. As the Co-Head of U.S. Capital Markets for Newmark, along with Adam Spies, Doug Harmon and Rob Griffin, Shannon leads a team of 31 professionals focused on arranging capital markets transactions on behalf of domestic and offshore investors primarily in the Western United States. Shannon has been involved in over $80 billion of capital markets transactions since 2010 and has extensive experience in both fee simple and structured transactions in the office, industrial, life science, multifamily, land, and retail sectors.
Shannon joined Newmark in 2015 after ten years at CBRE, where he served as Vice Chairman and Managing Director for the West Coast Institutional Investment Group and led the Western United States Office vertical. Prior to CBRE, he served as a Senior Vice President with the Institutional Investment Group at Grubb & Ellis. He began his real estate career at Colliers Seeley, where he rose to Managing Director and established the company’s Investment Division in 1996.
Professional Affiliations
Shannon attended the University of Southern California (USC), with an emphasis in Real Estate Finance and Development and is a frequent guest lecturer. He is a long-standing board member of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and a USC House of Victory NIL trustee. Shannon is also the Vice Chair of Urban Land Institute’s IOPC Silver Flight and serves on the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics Policy Advisory Board.
Personal Affiliations
In addition to Shannon’s professional affiliations, he is an active member of the Los Angeles community, serving as a long-term board member of the Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters organization and is currently the Chair of the Caruso Catholic Center Board. He is also the treasurer and primary benefactor for the Missionary Sisters of the Eucharist, an order of nuns in Guatemala founded by his aunt.
Education
Shannon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in real estate finance and development from the University of Southern California.