Tom Shapiro

Tom Shapiro is the president and founder of GTIS, and is the chief investment officer, responsible for overseeing all investment activities and strategies of the firm. He is also chairman of the General Partner’s Investment Committee. Prior to starting GTIS, Shapiro was a senior managing director at Tishman Speyer and a member of the firm’s Investment and Management committees. Most recently, he was responsible for Tishman Speyer’s global equity capital markets and dispositions group. Previously, he ran GTS Properties, an acquisitions joint venture between Tishman Speyer and Goldman Sachs. After joining Tishman Speyer in 1988, he worked in the leasing, acquisitions, asset management and development areas. Shapiro is on the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice and on the Board of Trustees at Horace Mann School. He received a B.S. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.