Jim Cowan, Managing Director of Capital Markets

Jim has over 30 years of real estate investment experience including 23 years at Morgan Stanley Investment Management as a Managing Director – Senior Investment Manager for North American listed real estate securities. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he worked at Capital Trust, a publicly traded real estate finance and investment management company and Tower Realty Trust, a publicly traded office REIT, which he helped take public.  Jim holds an MS in Real Estate from New York University and a BSBA in Finance from Villanova University.  He is a Business Fellow for the DiLella Center for Real Estate at Villanova University and is chairman for the Rights of Passage Program Board for Covenant House New Jersey which provides transitional housing and services to homeless youths.