Hamid R. Moghadam
Co-founder 1983Background
Hamid Moghadam earned a MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1980 and worked alongside Douglas Abbey for their real estate professor, John McMahan, before the two launched the real estate advisory firm Abbey, Moghadam & Co. in 1983. Joined by T. Robert Burke in 1984, the three founded AMB Institutional Realty Advisors, initially an investment-advisory firm serving pension funds, endowments, and foundations before it grew into a direct owner and operator of industrial real estate. Moghadam led AMB Property Corporation through its 1997 IPO and its 2011 merger of equals with ProLogis, then ran the combined Prologis as CEO for nearly 15 more years before moving to executive chairman when Dan Letter became CEO on January 1, 2026. He remains active at Stanford, having chaired the Stanford Management Company board.