dougLAS lyons

MBA ‘93

Douglas W. Lyons is a Managing Principal of Pearlmark, with responsibility for the firm’s capital markets and debt investment activities. He is also a member of the firm’s Management and Investment Committees. Prior to joining Pearlmark in 1996, Mr. Lyons served as Vice President of Equity Institutional Investors, Inc. with responsibility for merchant banking activities and strategic portfolio management projects for the Zell/Merrill Lynch Real Estate Opportunity funds, the Zell/Chilmark Fund, and other Sam Zell-related affiliates. In addition, Mr. Lyons actively managed an institutional portfolio of REIT stocks. Prior to joining the Zell organization, he worked in the New York Real Estate Capital Markets groups for Bankers Trust Company and Merrill Lynch & Co.

Mr. Lyons is on the Harvard Alumni Real Estate Board and is a member of the Pension Real Estate Association. He serves as a Trustee for the Urban Land Institute and for the Loomis Chaffee School, chairing its Buildings and Grounds Committee. He previously served as a Trustee for Lycée Français de Chicago, chairing its Facilities Committee, and was Treasurer of St. James Cathedral in Chicago. Mr. Lyons earned his BA in History from Amherst College where he was a two-time All-American in soccer, and his MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.