Co-Founder, Chairman & Global CEO
Christopher Merrill is the Co-Founder, and Global CEO of Harrison Street Asset Management (“Harrison Street” or “HSAM”), a leading global real assets investment management firm. As of Q2 2025, the firm has executed approximately $130 billion in transactions and manages over $100 billion assets under management through highly differentiated assets across infrastructure, real estate and credit strategies.
Headquartered in Chicago, Toronto and London, with approximately 520 employees in offices across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East the firm offers innovative solutions across a variety of closed-end, open-end and specialized vehicles on behalf of 900 institutional and over 300 Registered Investment Advisors.
Mr. Merrill is Harrison Street’s largest individual shareholder and serves as the Chairman of the firm’s Investment and Executive Committees.
Mr. Merrill is a recipient of the Horatio Alger Award (2025) and was named Industry Figure of the Year: Global by Private Equity Real Estate in 2022. He serves on multiple industry and nonprofit boards and holds an MBA from Cass (Bayes) Business School, London.
