Brandon D. Short

Executive Director and Portfolio Manager, PGIM Real Estate


Brandon Short was elected to the Board of Trustees by the Alumni effective July 1, 2018. Mr. Short is Executive Director and Portfolio Manager, PGIM Real Estate, where he manages PGIM’s Private REIT Fund and directs the fund’s east coast investment and asset management activities. Short has over 13 years of experience in real estate investment banking and investment management. Before joining PGIM, he was M&A Director at Round Hill Capital. Before Round Hill, he was a member of the Cerberus European real estate investment team. Before joining Cerberus, he worked at Goldman Sachs as a real estate investment banker based both in New York and Dubai

Before his career in finance, Brandon had a 7-year career in the National Football League, with the Carolina Panthers and New York Giants. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Marketing from Pennsylvania State University and received a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia Business School.