BERNARD J. MICHAEL

Bernard J. Michael serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Inland Real Estate Income Trust and has been a member of the board since 2014. He brings more than 25 years of experience across real estate investment, development, and complex legal and transactional work,  including co founding AWH Partners, LLC, where he helped lead more than $1.4 billion in acquisitions and over $300 million in redevelopment projects. Earlier in his career, Mr. Michael was a senior real estate attorney advising global developers, lenders, and institutional owners on marquee projects such as Time Warner Center and Hudson Yards, as well as major multifamily, retail, office, and hospitality developments across the U.S., China, and the Middle East.

Mr. Michael has held leadership roles spanning both private and nonprofit sectors, including as a partner in the Real Estate Group at Proskauer, LLC. He previously founded the law firm Michael, Levitt & Rubenstein, LLC, and was a real estate attorney at Weil Gotshal & Manges, and Shea & Gould.

Mr. Michael is a graduate of Brown University and New York University School of Law.