Hamid R. Moghadam

Hamid R. Moghadam (; born August 26, 1956) is an Iranian and American business executive and philanthropist. In 2011, Moghadam orchestrated the combination between AMB, and S&P 100 company.

Early life and education Born on August 26, 1956, in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran. He grew up in Tehran, In 1980 Moghadam received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in California.

Career Abbey, Moghadam & Company After business school, Moghadam started his career at Homestake Mining Company. He later joined John McMahan Associates. In 1983, he and Douglas Abbey founded Abbey, Moghadam & Company in San Francisco, California. Although they planned to provide investment advisory services, according to Forbes, they soon became known for instead "helping investors revive underperforming assets." In late 1997, By the end of 1999, AMB was the second-largest industrially focused REIT in the United States, with a total market capitalization of $3.5 billion. focused on buying and developing distribution facilities near global trade hubs, AMB added an internal development division in 2004. and Mexico in 2014.

Prologis continues to operate as a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) on the S&P 100, operating logistics and distribution facilities for customers in various industries In 2018 he oversaw its acquisition of DCT Industrial Trust for $8.4 billion, and in 2020, acquisitions of Liberty Property Trust for $13 billion and Industrial Property Trust for $4 billion, then Duke Realty in 2022 for $23 billion. The company's platform totals 1.2 billion square feet that is owned, managed or under development in 19 countries, with about $196 billion in assets under management. Moghadam frequently appears on major television networks to talk about the real estate industry, including CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and Fox Business Network, as a real estate industry expert.

In 2023, Moghadam's total compensation from Prologis was $50.9 million, representing a CEO-to-median worker pay ratio of 400-to-1 for that year.

Industry boards and committees In the 1990s, he joined the MIT Center for Real Estate's advisory committee, as vice chairman of the National Realty Committee. He is a member of the national Business Roundtable, and served as a trustee of the Urban Land Institute, He was also the chairman of National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) in 2004. He served on the boards of Town School for Boys, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Bay Area Discovery Museum,

Previously a trustee of Stanford University,

Awards and recognition Moghadam was named EY's 1998 Real Estate Award Winner for the Northern California Region. In 2005, Moghadam was presented with an Industry Leadership Award from the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). He received a Lifetime of Building Award from the Commercial Real Estate Development Association (NAIOP) in 2007, and also that year he received the Wisconsin Alumni Center's Vision Setter Award. Moghadam received the EY National Entrepreneur of the Year Overall Award in 2013, as well as Harvard Business Review named him one of the 100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World three times, and a number of industry publications have named him their CEO of the Year.

In July 2022, Moghdam was robbed at gunpoint outside his home in San Francisco. He relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2025.