Dan O’Brien is a Vice Chairman and Co-Head of Newmark’s Private Capital group.
O’Brien recently joined Newmark after a 4+ year stint as Executive Managing Director at Cushman & Wakefield where he oversaw the Brooklyn and Queens market. Over the last two years at Cushman & Wakefield, O’Brien’s team transacted on $2+ billion of real estate. Notable recent transactions that O’Brien has led this year include the $160 million sale of St. Francis College, the largest sale in Brooklyn to date this year; along with the $70 million note sale of the Whale Square office building in Sunset Park, and the $29.5 million sale of 125 Third Street development site in Gowanus. In 2022 O’Brien led the $249 million sale of the LeFrak South Brooklyn Portfolio and the $157 million sale of The Dime Residences in Williamsburg.
Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield in 2019, he spent eight years at Eastdil Secured, most recently as a Director. O’Brien was co-head of the East Coast Hospitality practice and functioned as a senior member of Eastdil’s NYC Multifamily team. During his tenure, he was involved in more than $25 billion of transactions including the sale of the Waldorf Astoria and The London NYC Hotels, as well as the Walt Disney Headquarters building in NYC. Prior to Eastdil, O’Brien worked at the LeFrak Organization and at Marcus & Millichap, where he served as part of the team that opened the firm’s first Brooklyn office.
Education
O’Brien is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and the University of Pennsylvania, and also holds an MBA degree from The Wharton School. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.