Matthew Hines is a director in Hines’ Strategic Projects Office, serving as project lead developing Hines’ vision on the Future of Work. He was formerly part of Hines’ US West Region, where his primary focus was new development and acquisitions business. Matthew joined Hines in 2019 and served as project manager for West Edge, a sustainable live, work, play mixed-use destination in West Los Angeles. As project manager, he oversaw West Edge’s budget, schedule, design, consultants, marketing, leasing, and overall project delivery.

Prior to joining Hines, Matthew served as engagement manager at Medallia, where he managed the business relationships of top clients including Four Seasons, Chase, and Toyota, and oversaw a team of software development analysts. Matthew also worked at music management company Rebel One, developing multi-platform digital marketing campaigns for superstar pop recording artists including Rihanna and Becky G.

Matthew graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA in European History and Anthropology and received his MBA with a concentration in Real Estate from UC Berkeley’s Hass School of Business. He is a member of ULI and NAIOP and serves on the board of Sunflower Network.

Peter M. Gilhuly recently retired from being a finance partner at Latham & Watkins LLP, the second largest law firm in the world by revenue. Mr. Gilhuly was at Latham for 32 years and was the Chair of several management committees including the Associates Committee, the Pro Bono Committee and the Client Credit Committee.

Mr. Gilhuly has been heavily involved in charitable activities his entire career. After serving as a Peace Corp Volunteer in Nepal from 1983 -1986, for 15 years he was the Chair and Board Member of A Place Called Home, an organization which serves underprivileged youth in South Central Los Angeles. Mr. Gilhuly has been involved in numerous other charities and pro bono matters including Home Boy Industries. Mr. Gilhuly attended Wesleyan University (BA in history with honors) and Harvard Law School (JD cum laude).

Mr. Shepherd serves as a Senior Advisor to Hines where he worked from 1982 until his retirement on January 1, 2019. At Hines, Mr. Shepherd was CEO of Investment Management from 2012 and served as a member of the Executive Committee and Investment Committee. He chaired multiple additional committees and served on several boards for both public and private affiliated companies. Prior to 2012, Mr. Shepherd was a Senior Managing Director, directing the development, acquisitions and operations of more than 25 million square feet of commercial real estate in the West Coast of the U.S.

Mr. Shepherd is a member of the Grosvenor Property Americas Board, serving as Chair of the Audit Committee and of the Pension Committee for U.S. Pension Plans. Additionally, Mr. Shepherd has been an active member of several non-profit boards of directors for over thirty years.

Tommy Craig recently stepped down from being the New York tristate Partner for Hines, the largest privately owned real estate firm in the world and will continue with Hines as the lead Project Officer on its South Station project in Boston, currently under construction. Mr. Craig has been at Hines for 42 years, including 26 years with responsibility for the Hines New York office. His major projects in addition to South Station, include One Vanderbilt Avenue, 7 Bryant Park, the MoMA tower at 53W53, and major buildings for Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, UBS and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Mr. Craig has been deeply involved in a variety of charitable activities. He has served as the Senior Warden for Trinity Episcopal Church Southport, CT and was an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Business School teaching the real estate development course from 2010-2015, has been a Board member for Phipps Houses for the last 10 years as well as a member of the Urban Design Forum. Mr. Craig attended the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill where he was a member of the swimming and diving team for 4 years, graduating with honors and also received an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Stephen Lerner has been a founding member of multiple asset management businesses and has over 35 years of experience in capital markets and funds management. Stephen began his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert where, from 1984 to 1987, he was Assistant Vice President in the Interest Rate Products Group, an early innovator in the field of derivatives and structured products. Stephen left Drexel in 1987 to co-found AIG Financial Products where he was a Vice President and performed trading, hedging and structuring of derivatives based on equities, fixed income, commodities and foreign exchange. In 1993, Stephen co-founded Sosin & Co., LLC where he served as head of the Trading and Systems functions. Sosin & Co., LLC formed a joint venture with Banco Santander that provided tailored derivative product solutions to European and Latin American clients.

In 1996, Stephen left Sosin & Co to co-found Zurich Capital Markets where, as President and Chief Operating Officer, he oversaw the creation and daily operation of the firm which grew to managing $17 billion in assets with 600 employees in 7 offices around the globe.

In 2003, Stephen co-founded XE Capital Management LLC, a SEC registered global hedge fund firm which grew to manage over $1 billion in assets, where he headed risk management and shared responsibility for the acquisition and management of the firm's primary asset class, secondary market life-insurance policies.

In 2008, Stephen left XE to focus full time on managing his family office.

Stephen holds a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering from Cornell University and lives in Utah.