Executive Team

The people behind the research

Hoya Capital's leadership team brings together backgrounds in real estate securities research, index construction, portfolio management, and financial media. The team includes David Auerbach, Chief Investment Officer, whose Daily REITBeat publication is followed across the REIT industry.

This page introduces the executives who direct the firm's research agenda, manage its index products, and represent Hoya Capital in national financial media, along with their professional backgrounds and areas of focus.

Beyond managing the firm's research and index products, the team appears regularly on financial television and in national publications discussing REITs, housing, and income investing. Their commentary has been featured by outlets including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox Business, and Bloomberg Television.

Biographies on this page cover each executive's background and areas of specialty. Together the team combines decades of experience across real estate securities research, index design, portfolio management, and financial communications, all in service of the firm's income focused investment mission.

Hoya Capital operates as a research first organization, and the team's structure reflects that: leadership stays directly involved in the firm's published research, its data products, and its media appearances rather than delegating that work to a separate department. That hands on approach is why the same names readers see on articles and interviews also direct the firm's indexes and investment process day to day.