John has over 30 years of diverse real estate investment experience including development
feasibility, site acquisition, due diligence, zoning approvals, project design, construction, and finance/capital markets. He has worked both as a consultant and as a principal on numerous real estate investment types including commercial mixed use, senior housing, and residential development.
Prior to joining SDM in 2018, John was a principal at Hawthorne Development Partners for 15 years
where he managed an investment partnership with Lubert Adler Real Estate focused on mixed use and
residential development, worked on senior housing developments with Epoch Senior Living and
Benchmark Assisted Living, and conducted numerous consulting assignments for client such as the Mass Department of Transportation (DOT), Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA), Hudson Realty Capital, Bloomfield Capital, Alterra Development, Pulte Homes, and T-Mobile. Prior to forming
Hawthorne, John worked at Cabot Partners, Vertical Net, Fleet Bank, and Citicorp Real Estate.
John has an MS in Real Estate Development from MIT and an MBA in finance and accounting from the
University of Rochester Simon School of Business.