Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. announced that Barry Sholem has been appointed to the company's Board of Directors effective March 13, 2023. Sholem succeeds outgoing board member Robert Harris II. Sholem is the Founder and Partner of Real Estate for investment advisory firm MSD Partners, L.P., and currently serves as the Chairman and Senior Advisor of Real Estate for BDT & MSD Partners, a merchant bank.

He previously served as Chairman of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners, a real estate fund that he co-founded and that invested in a broad range of real estate-related assets. Prior to that, he served as Managing Director at Credit Suisse First Boston and as head of the west coast real estate group for Goldman Sachs. Sholem is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Real Estate Roundtable and the University of California, Berkeley Real Estate Advisory Board.

He is also a board member for SITE Centers. Sholem received a B.A. from Brown University and an MBA from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.