Our Team

Our 36 professionals and staff have deep experience and a successful track record in buying, managing and selling real estate.

Michael Hackman

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Michael D. Hackman founded Hackman Capital in 1986 and serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer. Michael has more than 31 years of experience in the acquisition, development, management and disposition of real estate and capital assets.

Michael began his real estate career in 1978 at Majestic Realty, one of the nation's largest and most successful developers of industrial and commercial real estate. Headquartered in Southern California, Majestic provides a fully integrated platform for real estate development. Under a highly entrepreneurial culture, Michael worked in all phases of the process including land acquisition, entitlement, development, design construction, leasing, financing and property management.

Between 1983 and 1986, Michael joined CB Richard Ellis (CBRE), one of the world's premier full-service real estate services companies. Michael was a top producing industrial broker in the Los Angeles Inland Empire, specializing in industrial building sales, leasing and land transactions.

In 1986, Michael left CBRE to form Hackman Capital and focused on purchasing value-added, opportunistic and distressed real estate investments. Also in 1986, Hackman Capital began to partner with Rabin Brothers, a worldwide industrial equipment auctioneer, and became one of the few firms in the country to bundle industrial real estate and equipment into single transactions.

Michael has successfully completed hundreds of real estate transactions and capital asset liquidations across four continents, representing in excess of $1 billion in value. He has deep expertise in all aspects of real estate and capital asset distressed investing, and has developed a network of personal contacts within major corporations, banks, law firms, bankruptcy and turnaround firms.

Michael graduated from The Ohio State University in 1978 with a degree in real estate finance. He currently sits on the Board of Trustees for several schools in Los Angeles and participates actively in many national philanthropic organizations.