Bobby Turner
Managing Partner, Canyon Capital Advisors LLC
Bobby Turner is Managing Partner at Canyon Capital Advisors LLC, directing the firm's real estate investments, including the Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund. Since joining Canyon, he has been involved in hundreds of real estate and mortgage transactions totaling more than $6 billion. He has worked on the development, construction, rehabilitation and repositioning of more than 42 million square feet of commercial property and 24,000 residential units throughout the United States. Turner has more than 20 years of experience in acquiring and developing residential, retail, industrial and office properties; structuring and restructuring mortgages and mortgage securities; and the servicing and management of commercial real estate assets. He is on the boards of the Pacific Charter School Development Corporation and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC); he also serves on the Leadership Forum at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies. Turner received a bachelor's degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.