Jackson Hsieh

As President & CEO for Macerich, Jackson Hsieh guides one of the nation’s leading retail real estate companies with high-quality properties in many of the best U.S. markets.

Mr. Hsieh brings powerful leadership experience in both real estate and investment banking to Macerich, where he takes the reins at a critical juncture in the company’s evolution: Macerich will mark 30 years as a public company in 2024.

Prior to joining Macerich, Mr. Hsieh was President and Chief Executive Officer of Spirit Realty Capital beginning in 2017, where he led the successful merger of Spirit with Realty Income Corporation through an all-stock transaction with an enterprise value of approximately $9.3 billion.

Before Spirit, Mr. Hsieh spent decades as a high-level global banking executive, including roles as Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley and Vice Chairman and Sole/Co-Global Head of UBS’s Real Estate Investment Banking Group.

Mr. Hsieh is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and he earned a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard University. He is also a member of the Nareit Advisory Board of Governors.