Rockefeller Group appoints new CEO

Rockefeller Group has appointed Daniel Moore as president and CEO.

Moore will succeed Dan Rashin and Tetsuya Masuda, who will remain co-presidents and CEOs through Rashin’s planned retirement from the company on March 31, 2018. The change is part of Rockefeller Group’s long-term succession planning, initiated by the company’s board of directors following Rashin’s decision to retire.

Moore, who joined the company in 2016, is currently executive vice president and head of the company’s Urban Development business throughout the United States.

Since joining Rockefeller Group, Moore has been an active and influential member of the company’s steering, investment and portfolio committees. As head of Urban Development, he crafted a new vision for growth in major urban markets with a particular focus on New York City and Washington, D.C.  In 2017, the company announced a joint venture with The Meridian Group on Boro Tower, a 437,000-square-foot trophy office building that is Rockefeller Group’s first ground-up development in the Washington, D.C., region. In addition, last May the company acquired a development site assemblage and associated air rights in Manhattan’s NoMad neighborhood for a new luxury residential project.

Prior to joining Rockefeller Group, Moore spent 16 years with Hines in New York City and Washington, D.C., with roles in real estate development, investment management and capital markets.

Before beginning his real estate career, Moore served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force. He received an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, with a dual major in finance and real estate, and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Over the past 10 years, Rockefeller Group has completed approximately 11.4 million square feet of development, the most active decade for the company since its inception. Notably, one-third of that total, approximately 3.8 million square feet, has been completed since the start of 2016, when Rashin and Masuda were appointed co-presidents and CEOs. The company’s current development pipeline totals approximately 17 million square feet, the largest in its history.

Rashin joined Rockefeller Group in 2013 as a senior vice president of investments, before assuming senior development roles for the company in New York and nationally.  Masuda joined the company for the second time in April 2013 as chief investment officer.