Kevin Bishop joins Clarion Partner as managing director

Kevin Bishop has joined Clarion Partners as a managing director.

Based in Boston, Bishop will serve as the product specialist focused on raising capital for Clarion’s multifamily sector platform, built on the operating and development capabilities of Gables Residential.

Bishop brings more than 20 years of experience in the private-equity-investment sector to Clarion Partners, including a broad range of experience with a variety of institutional products and strategies in the open-end format.  He joins Clarion from Manulife, where he and his team were responsible for raising $500 million for Manulife’s real estate strategies, which spanned both equity and debt.  Before Manulife, he held senior positions at Guggenheim and Fidelity investments.