Doug Lawrence is the Managing Principal and Co-Founder of 5 Stone Green Capital LLC, a 100% green real estate fund. He has 30 years of distinguished real estate industry experience, and is an industry leader on the application of sustainable principles to real estate.

Prior to forming 5 Stone, Doug spent 13 years at JPMorgan as a key member of the real estate asset management team wherein he served as a trusted fiduciary to many large pension plans.

At JPMorgan, he was a Managing Director and co-Portfolio Manager of the 100% green, and sustainably designed Urban Renaissance Property Fund. The Fund was the first of its kind on an investment management platform to utilize the science of green technology as a driving investment criterion. It applied green technology to the operations of multifamily commercial real estate to materially improve an asset’s net operating income, thereby increasing its value while simultaneously helping the environment. The Fund’s investments such as the Parc Huron in Chicago (which sold for $110 million - a 50% profit just three years after its completion) adhered to solid real estate fundamentals for acquisition and then utilized green technology to turbocharge operating performance.

Prior to being the Urban Renaissance Property Fund’s manager, Doug was a Vice President & Senior Asset Manager at JPMorgan. Doug led the asset management, profit & loss, and value creation efforts for a large portfolio of industrial, office, multifamily and retail assets of more than 5 million square feet. The portfolio was valued in excess of $1 billion. As a Senior Asset Manager, he won nine (9) international and national awards for generating outstanding portfolio operating performance from peer groups BOMA, IREM and NAIOP.

Before joining JPMorgan, Doug spent seven years as a Senior Asset Manager for TIAA-CREF’s real estate investment group. He managed several iconic assets such as the New York City’s Seagram Building deemed “one of the 10 buildings that changed America.”

He also worked in the public sector as the Asset Manager for the City of Hartford, protecting and enhancing the City’s sizeable commercial property portfolio.

Doug earned an MBA from the University of Connecticut in International Business Finance and received his BA from Yale University. He has lectured at Yale’s Graduate School of Management, on real estate, sustainable investing, impact investing, and ESG matters.

He is a frequent speaker on effectiveness of green building, impact investing, sustainability and ESG topics.

Doug is Vice-President of the National Association of Securities Professionals-NY, He also serves as the Head of Finance and on the U.S. Board of Directors of the Climate Group. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Third Way. He recently completed a 10-year term as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Connecticut Foundation’s Investment Committee.

Doug holds or has held NASD Series 7 & 63 licenses.