Mark Owens

Mark Owens, based in New York, is an Executive Vice President and leader of CBRE Hotels Debt & Structured Finance Practice. He was recruited to build the CBRE Hotels Debt & Structured Finance practice, which has become one of the leading capital arrangers in the space. The 15-member team is focused exclusively on the lodging sector, raising debt and equity for acquisitions, recapitalizations and development. The team brings over $40 billion of transaction experience for the benefit of their clients. Mark is a member of CBRE’s Capital Markets Advisory Board, part of CBRE’s Institutional Group, CBRE Hotels’ Institutional Group and CBRE Hotels’ Executive Committee. Prior to CBRE Mark started his hotel career in high school as an intern at the Hyatt Regency in Waikiki. His real estate career began at HVS and he was with Tishman Hotel Corp., Sonnenblick-Goldman and Ackman-Ziff. A graduate of Cornell School of Hotel Administration, Mark remains an active part of the Cornell community and is on the Advisory Board of Cornell’s Center for Real Estate Finance at the SC Johnson College of Business.