Throughout two decades of real estate investing, Bradford was a Principal with MacFarlane Partners and the Founding Partner and Managing Director of Starwood Capital Europe and Starwood Capital Asia, overseeing operations in each region. He began his career with JMB Realty, then the largest US real estate firm, and later with CRI, then the largest owner of multifamily residential properties, where he oversaw the creation of Capital Apartment Properties REIT (CAPREIT). Bradford serves as a Global Governing Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and is a member of the Global Advisory Board for ULI's Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate. He is also on the ULI Global Exchange Product Council. He previously served as the Chair of ULI’s Redevelopment and Reuse Product Council, as a Non-executive Director of London-based Impact Investment firm Conduit Capital, and previously founded the ULI Washington’s Sustainability Initiative. He is a member of The Economic Club of Washington DC, the US Green Building Council, and the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP). He is a MetaProp (NY) mentor and a CREtech Leadership Board member. He was also the Founding Director of the Greater Washington Exploratory Committee, DC’s bid committee for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.