The Orion Team

Mr. McDowell serves as the Chief Executive Officer, President of the Company. Mr. McDowell previously served as VEREIT, Inc.’s (“VEREIT”) Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from October 2015 until November 2021. He previously served as VEREIT’s Co Head, Real Estate from January 2015 to September 2015 and VEREIT’s President, Office and Industrial Group from November 2013 until December 2014. Prior to joining VEREIT, Mr. McDowell was a founder of CapLease Inc. (“CapLease”), a publicly-traded net-lease REIT, where he served as Chief Executive Officer from 2001 to 2013 and as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary from 1994 until 2001. Mr. McDowell served on the CapLease Board of Directors from 2004 to 2013 and was elected Chairman of the Board in December 2007. He served on the Board of Directors of CapLease’s predecessor from 2001 until 2004. From 1991 until 1994, Mr. McDowell was corporate counsel for Sumitomo Corporation of America, the principal U.S. subsidiary of one of the world’s largest integrated trading companies. From 1987 to 1990, Mr. McDowell was an associate in the corporate department at the Boston law firm of Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP. He previously served as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for Tulane University School of Liberal Arts. 

Mr. McDowell received his Juris Doctor with honors from Boston University School of Law in 1987, and received a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University in 1982.

Gavin B. Brandon serves as the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company. Before joining the Company, Mr. Brandon was the Chief Accounting Officer for VEREIT from October 2014 until November 2021 and was responsible for accounting, SEC and managerial reporting, taxation and operational accounting and served on VEREIT’s Investment Committee, Portfolio Strategy Committee, and Cyber Committee. Prior to being VEREIT’s Chief Accounting Officer, Mr. Brandon was the Chief Financial Officer for three publicly registered, non-listed Office and Industrial REITs, Cole Credit Income Trust, Inc., Cole Credit Income Trust II, Inc., and Cole Credit Property Trust II, Inc. which were managed by Cole Capital, the previously owned investment management segment of VEREIT. From 2011 until 2013, Mr. Brandon was the Principal Accounting Officer for two non-listed REITs, Cole Credit Property Trust II, Inc. and Cole Corporate Income Trust, Inc., both of which were externally managed by affiliates of Cole Real Estate Investments, Inc. at which Mr. Brandon held the same role.

Mr. Brandon worked for nine years with Deloitte & Touche LLP, most recently as a senior manager in the firm’s national office within real estate services and is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Brandon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Weber State University and has served on Weber State University’s National Advisory Council since 2015.

Christopher H. Day serves as the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of the Company. In this role, he partners with the CEO and leadership team to manage daily cross functional operations including assets and property management as well as tenant relationships to drive value for all stakeholders.  

Before joining the Company, he served as Senior Vice President, Head of Portfolio and Retail Asset Management for VEREIT from 2018 until November 2021. He oversaw the asset management functions for VEREIT’s portfolio of over 2,100 retail properties encompassing nearly 35 million square feet, including executing on strategic lease renewals and dispositions to maximize value for VEREIT’s shareholders. In addition, Mr. Day also oversaw the portfolio management responsibilities of VEREIT’s portfolio of nearly 3,900 retail, office, industrial and restaurant properties, including working with executive management to establish strategy for VEREIT’s real estate portfolio that encompassed nearly 89 million square feet. Mr. Day was previously Vice President of Underwriting where he was part of a team that underwrote approximately $25 billion of closed acquisitions of multiple companies from 2007 to 2017.

Prior to joining VEREIT and its predecessor entities, Mr. Day was a Finance Associate for Corporex Companies, a privately held real estate investment company with broad holdings of office, industrial, land, residential and hotel assets throughout the United States. While at Corporex, Mr. Day assisted in the formation of Eagle Hospitality Properties Trust, a former NYSE publicly traded REIT that was formed to succeed to the full-service hotel business of Corporex. 

Mr. Day graduated (Magna Cum Laude) from Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration (Marketing) degree. He also obtained a Master of Business Administration (General) and Master of Science Business Administration (Finance) from Mississippi State University.

Gary E. Landriau has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer at Orion since November 2021. In this role, he partners with the CEO and leadership team to manage Orion’s investment activity while maintaining limited overall risk to the organization.

Before joining the Company, Mr. Landriau served as Head of Office and Industrial Asset Management at VEREIT from July 2014 until November 2021, where he focused on risk management and led leasing and disposition transactions within VEREIT’s 53 million square foot office and industrial portfolio. Previously, Mr. Landriau served as Senior Vice President of CapLease from 1997 until 2013 where he completed acquisitions and dispositions in excess of $1.2 billion. Prior to CapLease, Mr. Landriau served as Vice President of Prudential Realty Group where he worked in the mortgage capital group and also helped manage more than $6 billion of debt and equity assets.

Mr. Landriau earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master in Business Administration from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

Paul C. Hughes serves as the General Counsel and Secretary of the Company. In this role, he partners with the CEO and leadership team and provides legal counsel in connection with acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, and financing. He also oversees all day-to-day legal aspects of the Company, including SEC and NYSE compliance.

Before joining the Company, Mr. Hughes served as General Counsel and Secretary of Hospitality Investors Trust, Inc. from March 2017 through November 2021, a real estate investment trust which was public until June 2021 and owns a diversified portfolio of strategically-located hotel properties throughout the United States within the select service market of the hospitality sector. Previously and while Hospitality Investors Trust was externally advised by AR Global, he served as Senior Vice President, Counsel – Hospitality at AR Global where he had worked since November 2013. Prior to joining AR Capital, the predecessor to AR Global, Mr. Hughes served as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of CapLease, from January 2005 until the consummation, in November 2013, of the merger of CapLease with and into VEREIT which was then externally advised by an affiliate of AR Capital. Prior to joining CapLease, Mr. Hughes was an attorney practicing in the area of corporate and securities matters at Hunton & Williams LLP (now Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP) from September 2000 until January 2005, and at Parker Chapin LLP (now Troutman Pepper LLP) from September 1997 until September 2000. Mr. Hughes is also a certified public accountant and was employed by Grant Thornton LLP from January 1989 until June 1997.

Mr. Hughes earned his JD (Summa Cum Laude) from New York Law School and his B.S. from Lehigh University.

• Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller at VEREIT from 2014 - 2021
• Before her time at VEREIT, served as Director of Financial Reporting at OEM Group
• Started career as an audit manager at Deloitte
• Received Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Arizona State University

• Senior Vice President at VEREIT from 2014 - 2021
• Has held several different positions in the Tax and Corporate Finance department at VEREIT and Cole Real Estate Investments (before acquired by VEREIT) since 2004
• Started career as tax consultant at Deloitte
• Received Bachelor of Science in Accounting degree from Northern Kentucky University

• Senior Vice President and Head of Human Resources at VEREIT from 2018 - 2021
• Prior to VEREIT, held various positions at American Express, Discover Financial Services, Reveal Global Intelligence, and Accent Hiring Group
• Received Associate Fellow of Talent Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

• Senior Vice President and Head of Property Management at VEREIT from 2012 - 2021
• Prior to VEREIT, held various positions at the Related Companies, International Capital Partners, RREEF and Cabot Industrial Trust
• Received Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Arizona State University

• Vice President of Asset Management at VEREIT from 2020 - 2021
• Before VEREIT, held various positions at CapLease, Aviva Investors, Newmark, Jefferies and LaSalle Investment Management
• Received Master of Science degree in Real Estate from New York University and Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Loyola University Maryland

• Served as Vice President, General Counsel & Assistant Secretary and various other positions at Limelight Networks (currently, Edgio) from 2009 until 2022
• Prior to Edgio, was Legal Counsel & Assistant Secretary for CSK Auto (currently, O’Reilly Automotive) from 2005 to 2008
• Received his JD from Arizona State University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Northern Arizona University (Cum Laude)