About John

John Davyes Troughton

John Davyes Troughton is a Senior Director and shareholder of Cushman & Wakefield, a global real estate services provider. Mr. Troughton specializes in working with private equity firms to achieve Post-Transaction Value Enhancement for their real estate.

Mr. Troughton was born and raised in Richmond, California. He was educated in the public school system, graduating from DeAnza High School in 1980, and then achieved undergraduate and advanced degrees at the University of California at Santa Cruz with highest honors. He participated in the Ph.D. program at the University of California at Berkeley School of Business. He moved back to Richmond to assist in the leveraged buyout of the former Rheem Manufacturing facility in the late 1980’s, where he helped save over 400 jobs. Mr. Troughton then became a real estate professional in Silicon Valley in the early 1990’s, working with Norris, Beggs, and Simpson, which was acquired by the Galbreath Company.

With Cushman & Wakefield, Mr. Troughton has received many proclamations and congratulatory letters for his transactions from local jurisdictions, members of Congress, and the Governor of California. His efforts have helped create real estate opportunities that are now the working places of thousands of local employees. Mr. Troughton has been involved in residential conversion projects that have produced over 1,000 units of newly entitled housing opportunities. His efforts since 2000 in West Contra Costa alone have generated in excess of $300 million in upside for his clients and are scheduled to produce over one billion dollars of investment in local municipalities.

Mr. Troughton is a frequent speaker at merger and acquisition conferences throughout the Country, including ACG-LA (Association for Corporate Growth), ACG-New Jersey, Buyouts, The Deal, and the M&A Advisor. His efforts have been chronicled in the popular press including San Francisco Bay Area newspapers, the Portland Business Times, and BusinessWeek. He has written articles for publication including the M&A Advisor, The Globe Newspaper, and Commercial Property News. Amongst his most notable articles are “Middle Market Mergers, Acquisitions and Real Estate: An Opportunity to Re-use and Re-Build,” “Over-Cross Collateralization: An Urban Problem,” “Saving the Cities,” “Focusing on the Box,” and “Commercial Condo’s: A Thousand Jobs for Hercules – and Many More for the State and Nation.”

Mr. Troughton is a supporter of educational and charitable institutions. He resides with his wife and son in Northern, California and enjoys hunting and fishing with his family.

Mr. Troughton was proudly named Citizen of the Year for 2006 by the Hercules, CA Chamber of Commerce.

John Troughton, Senior Director

Cushman & Wakefield of California, Inc.

1111 Broadway, Suite 1600

Oakland, California 94607

Ph. 510-763-4900; fx 510-834-4119; cell 510-908-5007

Email: john_troughton@cushwake.com