CBRE Group, Inc. announced that Guy A. Metcalfe has been appointed to the company?s Board of Directors, effective February 26, 2024. Mr. Metcalfe was a Managing Director and member of Morgan Stanley?s investment banking executive committee and led its real estate investment banking business for over two decades before retiring as Global Chairman on January 31, 2024. In more than 30 years at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Metcalfe advised clients on over $850 billion of transactions.

He has served as a trusted strategic advisor to CBRE and helped to consummate notable capital-raising, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions for the company. In addition, Mr. Metcalfe advised on some of the most transformational transactions in the real estate industry, including the mergers of each of AMB Property Corp., KTR Capital Partners, Industrial Property Trust, Liberty Property Trust and Duke Realty with Prologis; and, among others, Blackstone?s acquisitions of Trizec Properties, Equity Office Properties, Hilton Hotels, BioMed Realty Trust, Gramercy Property Trust and QTS Realty. He also advised on numerous initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, significant private capital raises and secured and unsecured debt offerings.

Mr. Metcalfe will stand for election at CBRE?s next Annual Stockholder Meeting later this year. His appointment expands CBRE?s Board to 12 Directors. He serves on the Board of Directors of nonprofits, including the Child Mind Institute, and has been an advisor on real estate matters to the Partnership Fund for New York City.

He holds a B.A. in Business Administration (with honors) from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario.