Professional experience

Harmon is an executive vice president at BWE, responsible for overseeing the Washington, DC office and supporting the management of the national market rate production platform. During his commercial real estate career, Harmon has underwritten over $20 billion globally across all collateral types and executed $11 billion in transactions spanning advisory, acquisitions, dispositions, and capital markets.

Harmon joined BWE in 2022 through its acquisition of Phillips Realty Capital. He spent three years leading BWE’s DC office underwriting team as a senior vice president and senior transaction manager. He joined Phillips Realty Capital in 2017 as the director of underwriting; in this role, he co-managed the underwriting team, led commercial real estate financing transactions, and directed strategic efficiency initiatives.

Earlier in his career, Harmon was the director of finance at RLJ Lodging Trust, a publicly traded lodging REIT, where he led key initiatives across capital markets, real estate transactions, and investor relations. Before joining RLJ, Harmon spent a decade at GE Real Estate, where he directed $2.7 billion of financings, underwrote $12.0 billion of commercial real estate, and led numerous global risk initiatives. He began his career at UBS Warburg, where he executed $1.3 billion of transactions on the real estate investment banking team and covered 24 publicly traded REITs across the retail, multifamily, and healthcare sectors with the real estate equity research group.

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