Matthew L. Cypher brings more than nine years of industry real estate experience to Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where he teaches as a professor of the practice and directs the school’s Real Estate Finance Initiative.
He joined Invesco’s real estate acquisitions group in 2005 following several years in academia. While at Invesco, he was responsible for oversight of the Underwriting Group, which acquired $10.2 billion worth of institutional real estate during his leadership tenure. He has also personally underwritten $1.5 billion of acquisitions culminating with the purchase of 230 Park Avenue in New York, which Invesco acquired on behalf of its client capital in June 2011. Additionally, he was responsible for the Valuations group, which marks to market Invesco’s more than $13 billion North American portfolio. Cypher also was a member of Invesco’s Investment Committee and Investment Strategy Committee.
He served as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University teaching courses in the real estate concentration of the university’s MBA program while at Invesco. His written work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Real Estate Research, Journal of Property Research, and Urban Affairs Review. He also has written for trade-level publications including Urban Land and The Institutional Real Estate Letter. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Texas A&M and a B.S from The Pennsylvania State University.