Jon Tanaka serves as the Head of Asia Pacific and Co-Head of Japan at Hines, leading real estate initiatives across acquisitions, dispositions, operations, and development, ensuring asset optimization, strong tenant partnerships, and innovation while aligning regional and global strategies. He is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and oversees Hines’ presence in six countries.

Tanaka joined Hines in 2021, driving the rapid expansion of Hines’ Japan portfolio, developing more than thirty assets totaling over US$2 billion in value. Before Hines, he led Japan operations for Angelo Gordon and was a member of the Asia Real Estate Investment Committee. He held senior roles with Deutsche Bank RREEF’s Asia real estate team.

Tanaka also serves as an Executive Committee member of ULI Asia Pacific and was a ULI Global Governing Trustee as well as Vice Chairman of ULI Japan.

He earned a BA in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He also attended the Graduate School of Architecture at Kyoto University.