Matthew Cypher, Ph.D

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”

Dwayne Johnson

Dr. Cypher has served as a Director since March 2016. In July 2012, Dr. Cypher joined the faculty at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business as Director of the Real Estate Finance Initiative (since April 2015, the Steers Center for Global Real Estate). He serves as a Professor of Real Estate at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and tailors coursework to teach the Four Quadrants of the real estate capital markets—public, private, debt and equity. From 2005 to 2012, he served as a Director at Invesco Real Estate where he was responsible for oversight of the underwriting group, which acquired $10.2 billion worth of institutional real estate during his leadership tenure. Dr. Cypher personally underwrote $1.5 billion of acquisitions culminating with the purchase of 230 Park Avenue in New York City, which Invesco acquired on behalf of its client capital in June 2011. He also oversaw the valuations group, which marked to market Invesco’s more than $13 billion North American portfolio, and served as a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and Investment Strategy Group. He has held positions as an Adjunct Professor at Southern Methodist University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Dr. Cypher holds a BA from Penn State University and a master’s and PhD degrees from Texas A&M University.