Gregory S. Bates*
President and CEO
Greg is President & CEO of GID and serves on the Advisory Board, Executive Committee, and each investment committee of GID. As CEO, Mr. Bates is responsible for corporate strategy development and overall management of the firm, including oversight of the firm’s four operating verticals: Development, Multifamily, Credit, and Industrial. Mr. Bates is actively involved with GID’s investment strategies and operational execution, including active engagement with GID’s wholly-owned management company, Windsor Communities. He serves on the Board of Directors of Frontier Scientific Solutions, a bio-pharma logistics and global supply chain company, and is a Board Observer at BILT Rewards.
Previously, Mr. Bates was President and COO of GID, directly overseeing Investment Strategy, Investor Relations, and Portfolio and Asset Management. He joined the company after working six years at privately-owned Building and Land Technology (BLT) in Stamford, CT, where he built and led BLT’s third-party real estate private equity platform. Prior to BLT, Mr. Bates was an executive at GE Real Estate and served the company in various capacities over a 17-year career. While there, he was the General Manager of the Americas for GE Real Estate’s Investment Management platform, Managing Director of GE Real Estate’s principal investing business, and Managing Director of the Multifamily sector, overseeing GE Real Estate’s then-$5B portfolio of multifamily investments.
He is chairman of the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Multifamily Blue Council and is an Officer of the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), serving as Secretary for the 2026-2028 term. Mr. Bates is a member of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) and Up for Growth, a non-partisan housing research and advocacy group.
Mr. Bates received a BA degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.