Kevin Leon

President & Founder at Crestpoint Real Estate Investments Ltd.

Speaker

Kevin Leon is the President, CEO and Founder of Crestpoint Real Estate Investments Ltd., an investment and advisory firm specializing in direct property investment in Canada. Crestpoint is part of the Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group, a multi boutique asset management firm whose affiliated companies collectively manage over $140 billion in assets on behalf of institutional and private clients.

Crestpoint manages an open-ended real estate fund and a selection of segregated accounts. It has been consistently ranked as one of the top performing funds in Canada. In 14 years, Crestpoint has accumulated approximately $11 billion of assets under management consisting of over 300 properties across Canada in the office, retail, industrial and multifamily sectors. Crestpoint has also developed over 6 million square feet of industrial space across the country and has an open-ended Commercial Mortgage Strategy and recently launched a closed-ended Opportunistic Real Estate Strategy.

Previous to founding Crestpoint, Kevin was a Managing Director with CIBC World Markets Inc. for 10 years where he raised equity, debt, performed over $10 billion of property trades through brokerage assignments and assisted in mergers and acquisitions of various real estate companies. Kevin initially was employed at CBRE for 10 years in various positions including Executive Vice President and was the leading salesperson in Canada prior to leaving in 1999. Kevin graduated with an Honours in Business Administration at the University of Western Ontario.