John Gunther-Mohr
Lloyds Banking Group
John Gunther-Mohr is a real estate professional with over 25 years of experience in real estate finance. He joined Bank of Scotland in summer of 2006 and currently heads U.S. real estate finance based in New York. Bank of Scotland is the fourth largest UK bank, with over $1 trillion in total assets. It has real estate lending practices in 9 major U.S. cities, including New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Houston, Dallas, and Miami.
Before joining the Bank of Scotland, Mr. Gunther-Mohr served as General Manager for the U.S. Representative Office of Allgemeine Hypothekenbank Rheinboden AG (AHBR), a German mortgage bank with $70 billion in total assets. Mr. Gunther-Mohr initiated the bank’s activities in the U.S. focusing on real estate finance opportunities in the 20 largest U.S. metropolitan areas.
Prior to AHBR, Mr. Gunther-Mohr spent 12 years at HypoVereinsbank (now Hypo Real Estate). As a Director at HypoVereinsbank, he managed client relationships totaling over $1 billion in commitments. He developed client relationships in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles and provided construction and acquisition financing.
He began his career in the consulting division of Coopers & Lybrand, one of the “Big 8” accounting firms. He focused on market and financial feasibility analysis, economic development strategies, and strategic organizational evaluations.
Mr. Gunther-Mohr holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.P.A from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is a long-time member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and is a current Director and Past President of the Real Estate Lenders Association. He also is Chair of the Board of Jazz Forum Arts, Inc., a non-profit that produces jazz concerts in the New York area, and Treasurer of the Rivertowns Arts Council, an organization that supports the arts in the Hudson River towns of Hastings on Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Ardsley, and Irvington.