professional experience

David Happ is President of Donohoe Commercial Real Estate, overseeing its commercial and GSA Brokerage, Property Management, Project Management, Capital Markets, Investment Sales, Property Accounting, and Lease Administration service groups. David focuses on the company’s continued growth initiatives, innovation, and strategic planning efforts to support over $1B in leasing volume, $500M in sales volume, and 11M square feet under management.

David has accumulated over 25 years of progressive expertise in commercial, industrial, residential, and retail property development. A trained asset manager, his professional focus lies in generating revenue and decreasing costs to maximize profits, as well as managing the acquisition, leasing, marketing, upscaling, renovation, and disposition of complicated trophy properties. He has experience working with a broad range of clients – including institutional owners, private and public equity, sovereign wealth funds, government entities, commercial banking institutions, and public insurance companies – to increase revenue through innovative strategy and disciplined execution.

Before joining Donohoe, David served as the President of Development and Executive Vice President of Leasing & Operations at Property Group Partners (formally The Louis Dreyfus Property Group), splitting time between the company’s offices in Washington DC, New York City, and Florida. During his tenure there, David was responsible for overseeing the acquisition, repositioning, construction, development, and disposition of key properties within the company’s portfolio, achieving a 99.6% occupancy rate across all owned and managed buildings.

EDUCATION

• B.A., Northwestern University

CERTIFICATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

• Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), member
• District of Columbia Building Industry Association (DCBIA), member
• Urban Land Institute (ULI), member
• CoreNet (New York, Washington DC, and Southeast Florida), member