Daniel Dubrowski

Daniel Dubrowski is a lecturer in real estate at Rice Business. He co-founded Lionstone Investments in 2001, a real estate private equity investment firm that managed $10 billion of real estate for leading global institutional investors across office, residential and mixed-use assets. Over 23 years, he served in many roles, ultimately as chairman of the firm. At Lionstone, Dubrowski was responsible for overall executive leadership, strategy and new business. He led the Capital Formation team responsible for capital raising, investor relations and new product creation. He was also chair of the Business Committee and a member of the Executive Committee, Strategy Committee and Investment Committee. Dubrowski and his co-founders successfully sold the firm to Ameriprise Financial in 2017, after which he was asked to continue in his role post-sale for seven years. He left Lionstone in late 2024.

Prior to forming Lionstone, Dubrowski was a senior executive with Hines, where he advanced from project manager to senior partner in less than six years. During his 10-year career with Hines, Dubrowski led the company's first domestic acquisition and opened one of their first international offices in Mexico City. As director general, Dubrowski built the Mexican operation from inception and ultimately supervised 125 employees across three cities in Hines’ largest foreign office. Dubrowski invested more than $500M in Mexico and developed 3.4 million square feet, including the firm's first foreign industrial parks and first high-rise residential buildings. He also sourced and closed Hines' first international acquisition.

Dubrowski is fluent in Spanish and is FINRA certified for Series 7 and 24. For the last 20 years, Dubrowski has been a real estate professor in the MBA programs at Harvard University and Rice University. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his MBA from the Harvard Business School.