Equity Residential Announces Chief Financial Officer Changes, Effective August 7, 2025
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Published on 06/30/2025 at 14:51
Equity Residential announced changes to its executive management team. Bret D. McLeod, 42, will join the Company in July 2025 as Executive Vice President - Finance and assume the Chief Financial Officer role on August 7, 2025. Mr. McLeod currently serves as Executive Vice President and CFO of Great Wolf Resorts.
He is a seasoned senior financial executive with extensive experience in corporate strategy, capital markets, operations and investor relations at both public and private companies. Prior to Great Wolf, he served as CFO for Citycon, a publicly listed owner of Nordic shopping centers. Before that, he spent nearly 15 years at Host Hotels & Resorts, serving in positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as Senior Vice President, Treasurer, Head of Strategy & Investor Relations.
Mr. McLeod has a BSBA in Finance and Management from Georgetown University and an MBA from Northwestern University?s Kellogg School of Management. Ferguson Partners, a firm specializing in executive and board recruitment in the REIT industry, advised Equity Residential in recruiting Mr. McLeod for his new role. The Company further announced that Bret D. McLeod has been appointed as Executive Vice President ?
Finance, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer effective July 22, 2025, and will succeed Mr. Garechana as Chief Financial Officer, effective as of the August 7, 2025. Mr. Garechana, 46, has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company since September 2018. Mr. Garechana served as Senior Vice President of the Company from December 2012 to September 2018 and Treasurer of the Company from January 2008 to September 2018 and has held various positions within the Company?s finance group since November 2004.
The Company has not entered into any new compensation arrangements with Mr. Garechana in connection with this transition.