Greg Wolkom is a managing director and head of Wells Fargo Securities’ real estate loan syndications practice and Commercial Real Estate’s REIT Finance groups. As head of real estate loan syndications, Greg oversees the syndication of commercial real estate transactions. As head of the REIT Finance group, he manages a team that provides a comprehensive platform of banking and financial solutions to publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) and REIT-like clients. Greg also sits on the Capital Allocations Committee for Commercial Real Estate.
With more than 30 years of experience in the real estate industry, prior to joining Wells Fargo, Greg served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Kimpton Hotel and Restaurant Group. He began his career at Bank of America predecessor companies, where he held a variety of positions in both real estate lending and investment banking, including global head of Lodging and Leisure Investment Banking.
Greg participates on the Policy Advisory Board alongside an exclusive group of real estate leaders and finance leaders supporting the programs and research by the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics. He is a former member of the Urban Land Institute where he served on the Hotel Development Council.
Greg has a B.S. in business administration, with a major in finance, from the University of South Carolina, Columbia.
Thu Nov 06
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time
Moscone West - Level 2, 2022-2024
Category
Capital Markets
Five years on from the pandemic, the commercial real estate (CRE) market has been impressively resilient. Developers and lenders jointly navigated the structural shift in demand patterns driven by the pandemic amid the lift-off in rates from the zero lower bound from the Great Financial Crisis. Today, market activity continues apace but faces a new set of questions: uncertainty around the durability of the AI boom, the resilience of the US consumer, and the sustainability of debt.
In this context, competition for high-quality opportunities has intensified. CRE players have responded by re-organizing internally, leveraging different kinds of data, drawing on new sources of capital, and exploring new partnerships. The panel, led by experts from Wells Fargo and McKinsey & Company, will discuss these dynamics and their implications for CRE lenders as well as players up and down the value chain (e.g., owners, investors, developers, and asset managers).

