Daniel O. Mee
Dan Mee serves as President of Dillon Capital Advisors. He is active as a principal on Expert Witness engagements, CRE and note acquisitions as well as advising companies on strategic planning, capital allocation and raising capital.
Mr. Mee has been an Expert Wittness in Federal and State courts, as well as the London Court of International Arbitration. He extensive banking, investment, capital markets, investor relations, and strategic planning credentials. His direct experience transcends large corporate and Federal regulatory environments, to the complexities of working in a Family Office, to forming a start-up in a highly competitive field. He has raised billions of dollars in debt and equity in both public and private markets.
Previously, Dan was Co-President and COO of Tremont Mortgage Trust, a publicly traded commercial mortgage REIT. Tremont was externally managed by The RMR Group, a publicly traded alternative investment advisor and family office with over $35 billion in assets under management. Mr. Mee also served as SVP at RMR and sat on its 20 person Senior Leadership Committee. This group met quarterly, and reviewed daily transactions among the RMR hospitality, healthcare, industrial and office REITs. He was primarily responsible for the commercial real estate debt investment portfolio. In 2000, Mr. Mee co-founded Tremont Realty Capital (TRC), a privately held alternative investment management and advisory company. Dan grew TRC into an SEC Registered Investment Advisor with a peak of over 30 employees in ten offices across the US and a managed account track record in excess of $1 billion including over 2 million SF of CRE. TRC was sold to RMR in 2016. Prior to TRC, Mr. Mee was a senior officer with several boutique financial firms in Boston and New York. He helped grow these companies by recruiting staff and sourcing investments. Earlier, Mr. Mee was a Senior Liquidation Specialist with the FDIC where he was a lead officer on bank closings and led a major assets group in resolving several billion dollars in bank debt. Mr. Mee began his career at JP Morgan Chase Bank in New York City where he was credit trained and worked primarily in commercial and multi-family real estate finance throughout the US.
Mr. Mee holds an AB in Economics from Harvard College, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is a frequent moderator, panelist and lecturer at conferences and various universities on real estate and capital markets topics. Mr. Mee is active on several for profit and not for profit boards.
Corey A. Griffin
Corey Griffin serves as a Principal and Senior Managing Director of Dillon. He is active in corporate strategy, capital raises and investment selection.
Mr. Griffin provides deep experience building, growing and transforming investment management and wealth advisory platforms with operational experience in the Institutional, Retail, Family Office and Sovereign Wealth client segments.
Mr. Griffin was most recently CEO of Boston Private Wealth, a wholly owned subsidiary of publicly traded Boston Private Financial Holdings (BPFH), a holding company focused on private and commercial banking, institutional investments and wealth advisory clients in high growth markets across the US. He was a member of the Boston Private Bank board, as well as sitting on its Executive Loan, and Operating Committees. Prior to Boston Private, Mr. Griffin was President of The Davis Companies, a fully integrated real estate investor and developer with over $7 billion in investments. At Davis he oversaw the repositioning of the firm from a primarily regional private client business to an SEC Registered Investment Advisor, with national capabilities on behalf of institutions, family offices, private clients and retail platforms in a discretionary fund format. He managed the Executive and Investment Committees. Mr. Griffin was previously Chief Executive Officer at The Boston Company Asset Management (TBCAM), a BNYMellon subsidiary. Under his leadership, the company evolved from a domestically focused, institutional asset manager to a provider of global investment capabilities to retail, high net worth and institutional clients across North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Under his leadership, assets at TBCAM tripled, from $20 billion to $75 billion under management. In addition to his TBCAM responsibilities, he was a member of the parent company’s Global Operating, Ethics, and Talent Management Committees.
Mr. Griffin began his career in commercial real estate at Coldwell Banker Commercial, now CBRE, where he was a capital markets specialist representing institutional and individual investors, developers and banks in the acquisition and disposition of commercial portfolios.
Mr. Griffin holds an AB in Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He serves on several corporate and non profit boards.