Jon Tanaka
Managing Partner, Head of Asia Pacific and Co-Head of Japan / Hong Kong, PRC
Jon Tanaka serves as the Head of Asia Pacific and Co-Head of Japan at Hines, leading the company’s real estate initiatives across acquisitions, dispositions, operations, and development, ensuring asset optimization, strong tenant partnerships, and innovation while aligning regional and global strategies. He is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and oversees Hines’ presence in eight countries.
Jon joined Hines in 2021, bringing over 25 years of experience in real estate development and investment. He led the rapid expansion of Hines’ Japan portfolio, developing more than thirty high-performing assets across residential, industrial, logistics, and office sectors, totaling more than US$2 billion in asset value. Prior to joining Hines, he led Japan for Angelo Gordon, where he served as a member of Deutsche Bank RREEF’s Asia Real Estate Investment Committee and was a senior member of the Asia real estate team.
Jon is an Executive Committee member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Asia Pacific and has served as a ULI Global Governing Trustee as well as Vice Chairman of ULI Japan.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. He also attended the Graduate School of Architecture at Kyoto University. He is fluent in Japanese and English.