David L Knowles
About David L Knowles
David is responsible for the dedicated team at Stanfield Partners and its capital formation, strategic partnership, and investing activities in real estate technology companies. Stanfield is creating a dedicated real estate tech venture partnership focused on four verticals including Market Data/Analytics, Construction, Smart Buildings, and Capital Markets/Tokenization. His career has been focused on capital raising and strategy for the world’s largest real estate companies including serving as the Co-Manager of the Global Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Salomon Brothers and as the Head of Western U.S. Real Estate Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch. David was a leader in the creation of the CMBS market together with being central to the creation of the global REIT market including responsibility for the IPO’s of CB Commercial and Essex Property Trust. David is a founding board of directors member, Chair of the Innovation Committee, and CFO of Stanford Professionals in Real Estate, a co-founder of the Stanford Real Estate Council, a Leadership & Advisory Board Member of CRE Tech, and an inaugural member of the Urban Land Institute’s Technology Council. He believes that the time has now arrived for all forms of real estate companies to fully benefit from cutting edge technologies around the world.