Francisco Gutierrez is senior vice president of development at Alexander & Baldwin. He joined A&B in August 2018 and leads all of the company’s real estate development activities.

Gutierrez has more than 20 years of design and development experience and most recently served as senior director of development at GGP, one of the nation’s largest owners, redevelopers and operators of retail properties. He also served as development director at Oliver McMillan, working on high-rise residential projects in downtown Honolulu. Prior to that, Gutierrez worked at The Mills Corporation in Washington, D.C., doing retail and mixed-use development, and as an architect at Gensler in Houston.

Education and community commitment
Gutierrez received bachelor’s degrees in architecture and environmental design and a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Houston. He is a former president of the Hawai‘i chapter of NAIOP (formerly the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties) and is an active board member of HomeAid Hawai‘i.