Brian Cannella
Senior Managing Director

Brian Cannella is Senior Managing Director, Head of Transactions for a national real estate
private equity firm. In this capacity, he leads acquisition, development and disposition
transactions and capital market activities. He sits on the firm’s investment committee and
is based in Boca Raton, Florida.

Brian joined his current firm in 2013 and has spent more than a decade there, overseeing
the execution of developments, acquisitions, and dispositions across the firm’s equity
funds. He also manages debt sourcing and structuring for the platform and maintains the
lender relationships involved in its real estate financing. Over the course of his tenure,
Brian has been involved in completing more than twenty billion dollars in real estate
transactions, spanning sectors that include student housing, multifamily housing, seniors
housing, medical office, light industrial and self-storage. All of these sectors have drawn
increased investor attention in recent years as demand for specialized real estate has
grown.