Jeffrey C. Hines
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer / Houston, TX
Jeff Hines is the firm’s Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer. He works side by side with Co-Chief Executive Officer Laura Hines-Pierce to help shape the firm’s overall strategy and manage key risks. He is a member of the firm’s Management, Executive, and Investment Committees.
He became president in 1990 and has driven the company’s global expansion, the creation and transformation of its investment management business, and the diversification of its products and services into all real estate asset classes and management services. Under Jeff’s leadership, Hines has grown from $13.5 billion in assets under management AUM to $90.1 billion in AUM (as of December 31, 2024).
Jeff is a member of the Board of Advisors for Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, the KIPP Academy Trustees Advisory Board, and the Board of Visitors for MD Anderson Cancer Center. He served on the United Way of Greater Houston’s Board of Trustees for many years and has proudly led the firm’s Houston employees in consistently ranking among the top 5% of local companies based on annual contributions. Jeff and his wife, Wendy, are also proud supporters of Memorial Park Conservancy and funded the creation of the park’s Hines Lake in 2020.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Williams College and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.