Realty Income Corporation announced the appointment of Gregory J. Whyte as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer. The appointment will take effect January 3, 2023. Mr. Whyte was Senior Advisor in the Real Estate Leisure and Lodging Investment Banking group at UBS Securities from 2007 to 2016.

Prior to that, he was Managing Director, Global Head of Real Estate Equity Research at Morgan Stanley from 1991 to 2006 and was named several times to the annual Institutional Investor All America Research Team and Greenwich Associates Research Poll. Since 2022, Mr. Whyte has served as an independent director of Orion Office REIT Inc., including as the chair of its Compensation Committee and as a member of the Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Whyte also served as an independent director of TIER REIT Inc. from 2017 to 2019.

Mr. Whyte first joined Nareit in 1988.