Hugh Hilton, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
Hugh co-founded A&M Capital Real Estate in 2009 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
He is an A&M veteran with a rare combination of corporate turnaround and restructuring, commercial real estate restructuring, and private equity real estate investment and asset management experience:
Hugh has worked in a principal or investing capacity on $5.5 billion of commercial real estate assets and in a key advisory role on over $2 billion of CRE assets
Prior to originally joining A&M in 1992, Hugh had a 15+ year career in institutional real estate, working primarily in a principal capacity on behalf of public and private U.S. pension funds, trusts, and a variety of international investors, involving all major asset classes (including hospitality) across multiple market cycles
Between 1992 and 2008, Hugh was involved in 28 corporate restructuring, turnaround, and performance improvement engagements – both in and out of court – at a wide variety of public reporting and private companies on behalf of debtor, creditor, and private equity clients; he filled interim senior management roles of Chairman, CEO, President, and/or Chief Restructuring Officer at 14 of those companies
Hugh received a BBA (with high distinction; James B. Angell Scholar) from the University of Michigan, an MBA (with distinction) from the University of Michigan, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado (with a concentration in real property law). Hugh is a member of the Counselors of Real Estate, the Urban Land Institute, and the Colorado Bar Association.