professional experience

As President, David Happ oversees the company’s commercial and GSA brokerage business, property management, project management, capital markets, investment sales, accounting, and lease administration service lines, as well as focus on the company’s continued growth initiatives, innovation, and strategic planning efforts.

Happ 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 measured, disciplined execution.

Prior to joining Donohoe, Happ 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, Happ 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