Toni Steele is a Senior Real Estate Executive serving as Google Real Estate Portfolio Lead based in Silicon Valley. Her role ensures Google’s workplace and related business supply/demand needs are met through direct holdings, new development, and market transactions (acquisitions and leasing). Steele is also Co-Lead of Google’s $1 billion Affordable Housing Fund.
Steele is an engaged, innovative, and versatile leader with a collaborative commercial approach, cultural embodiment, technical acumen, and a leading execution track record on multiple investment and product types (domestic & abroad) valued in excess of $50 billion.
She has extensive capital markets & asset management experience from over 22 years with Goldman Sachs (International Country Lead for Italy & Germany | US Vice President) on large holding acquisitions, direct and NPL real estate portfolios, and country platforms. Her key focus areas include progressive office, life science, redevelopment, urban campuses, and film studios. While JLL Executive VP of Southern California Capital Markets, she co-lead the Netflix purchase of the Albuquerque Studios.
She holds a Master of Business Administration, summa cum laude, from the International University of Monaco and a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude from Pepperdine University. She also attended UCLA her freshman year and later for real estate studies.