David Cheikin serves as Head of Real Estate for Fisher Brothers, a fourthgeneration real estate company that owns, manages, and operates an 8 million square foot portfolio of office buildings, residential buildings and entertainment complexes across the United States.

Since joining the firm in 2023, David has overseen the company’s asset management, leasing, property management, security, and engineering groups for Fisher Brothers commercial and residential portfolio. David’s team also runs Ease Hospitality, Fisher Brothers’ luxury amenity, meeting, and conferencing platform.

Cheikin has almost three decades of experience in strategic real estate initiatives, including groundup development, large-format redevelopment, leasing, and investment management. Before Fisher Brothers, he was Executive Vice President at Columbia Property Trust and prior to CXP he spent 16 years at Brookfield Properties, serving most recently as Executive Vice President and Head of the New York and Boston regions. His prior asset management and leasing projects include the ground up development of the 7 million square foot Manhattan West NY, repositioning of the eight million square foot mixed use project Brookfield Place NY and the transformation / updating of the multi-sector Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany.

Cheikin holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis (2003) and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Environmental Studies from the University of Rochester (1997).).