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Kevin A. Shields
Chairman and CEO
Griffin Capital Company, LLC
Mr. Shields founded Griffin Capital in 1995, serves as the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and is based in the firm’s headquarters in El Segundo, CA. Griffin Capital is the sponsor or co-sponsor of two ‘40 Act Interval Funds and several public, non-listed real estate investment trusts: Griffin Institutional Access® Credit Fund and Griffin Institutional Access® Real Estate Fund, for which Mr. Shields is the President and a Trustee, Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III, Inc. (GAHR III) and Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV (GAHR IV), for which Mr. Shields serves as a Board of Directors observer, and Phillips Edison Grocery Center REIT III, Inc. Griffin Capital previously sponsored two other non-listed real estate investment trusts: Griffin Capital Essential Asset® REIT, Inc. (GCEAR) for which Mr. Shields was the Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Directors and Griffin Capital Essential Asset® REIT II, Inc. (GCEAR II), for which Mr. Shields was the Chief Executive Officer and currently serves as Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Shields is also Chairman of Griffin Capital Securities, LLC, a FINRA registered broker-dealer which serves as the dealer manager for the REITs and the exclusive wholesale marketing agent for Griffin Institutional Access Credit Fund and Griffin Institutional Access Real Estate Fund. Mr. Shields is the Chief Executive Officer of Griffin Capital Advisor, LLC, an SEC-registered investment advisor and advisor to Griffin Institutional Access Real Estate Fund. Mr. Shields is also the Chief Executive Officer of Griffin Capital Credit Advisor, LLC, an SEC-registered investment advisor and advisor to Griffin Institutional Access Credit Fund.
Before founding Griffin, Mr. Shields was a Senior Vice President and head of the Structured Real Estate Finance Group at Jefferies &Company, Inc. in Los Angeles and a Vice President in the Real Estate Finance Department of Salomon Brothers Inc. in both New York and Los Angeles. With over 30 years of experience in real estate and investment banking, Mr. Shields has structured and closed over 200 transactions totaling in excess of $8 billion of real estate acquisitions, financings and dispositions.
EDUCATION
- Juris Doctorate, University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
- MBA, Haas Graduate School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, graduated Summa Cum Laude with Beta Gamma Sigma distinction
- BS, Haas Undergraduate School of Business, University of California, graduated Phi Beta Kappa distinction
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES
- FINRA Securities Licenses: Series 7, 63, 24 and 27
- Member, California Bar Association (Inactive)
INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES
- Chairman Emeritus, Investment Program Association (IPA)
- Executive Member, Public Non-Listed REIT Council, NAREIT
- Policy Advisory Board Member, Fisher Center for Real Estate
- Council Member, Urban Land Institute
- Guest Lecturer, Haas Graduate School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
PERSONAL
Married, father of four and resident of Manhattan Beach, California.
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By “investment grade” we mean that we intend to invest in properties leased to blue chip tenants and/or companies with investment grade credit ratings. There is no guarantee all of our properties will be leased to blue chip tenants or companies with investment grade credit ratings. Blue chip companies are well-known publicly traded companies that typically make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the S&P 500 Index. Blue chip and investment grade descriptions are those of either tenants and/ or guarantors with investment grade credit ratings or whose non-guarantor parent companies have investment grade credit ratings or what management believes are generally equivalent ratings.
By “Invest Like an Institution,” we mean that Griffin Institutional Access® Real Estate Fund allows individual investors access to portfolio strategies, investment vehicles, and sub-advisers that are typically only available to large institutional investors such as banks, insurance companies, endowments, and pensions.
By “Your Public and Private Real Estate Investment Solution,” we mean that Griffin Institutional Access® Real Estate Fund, which offers investors a blend of public and private real estate investments selected and managed by leading institutions (the Fund’s sub-advisers) delivers an investment solution. This Fund, because it provides an array of potential benefits from current income to less volatility and modest market correlation to pricing transparency and periodic liquidity, is a ’solution.’