Douglas M. Weill
is a Senior Managing Director of Hodes Weill, a Chatham Financial company. Hodes Weill is a leading global capital advisor focused on real estate, infrastructure, and other real assets. He is responsible for new business origination, client mandates, and oversight of Hodes Weill.
Doug has over 35 years of real estate experience as a consultant, advisor and investment banker. He has advised on institutional private placements for more than 125 real estate and infrastructure private funds, raising over $40 billion of capital. In 2025, Doug was named to PERE’s list of the 100 most influential individuals in institutional private real estate capital markets over the past decade.
Before co-founding Hodes Weill, Doug was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse. He co-founded the Real Estate Private Fund Group at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in 2000 and co-led the business through 2009 following DLJ's merger with Credit Suisse First Boston. Earlier in his career, he held real estate investment banking positions at DLJ, PaineWebber, and Kidder, Peabody & Co., and began his career in real estate and hospitality consulting at Kenneth Leventhal & Co. and Hospitality Valuation Services.
Doug received a BS in Hotel Administration from Cornell University. He serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell's Baker Program in Real Estate, as President and a board member of the Cornell Real Estate Council, and on the Advisory Board of the Cornell Brooks Center for Infrastructure.
