Greystar, the global leader in rental housing, has appointed Daniella Meyer as Senior Director, People and Culture for Asia-Pacific and Japan. The appointment places Meyer on the company’s APAC Executive Leadership Team, with responsibility for shaping the people strategy across one of the firm’s most active growth regions.
In the role, Meyer will partner with the APAC CEO, Country Managing Directors, and regional leadership to drive talent acquisition, retention, and development strategies across Greystar’s expanding footprint. The appointment reflects the company’s commitment to building the human infrastructure needed to support its accelerating regional ambitions.
Meyer brings more than 15 years of experience driving organisational growth and cultural transformation across APAC, Japan, and South America, with a track record that spans high-growth technology firms, global media companies, and financial services. She has built a reputation for scaling people functions during periods of rapid expansion – an attribute well-suited to Greystar’s current APAC trajectory.
Most recently, Meyer served as Director, People Business Partners for APAC and Japan at Okta, where she played a pivotal role in supporting the company’s hypergrowth, driving strategic HR initiatives and aligning people operations with business goals across a rapidly expanding region. Before Okta, she held progressive leadership roles at Indeed, serving as Head of HR for APAC and South America, where she led people strategies that supported Indeed’s rapid expansion, scaling the business from a startup phase to a mature, high-performing organisation.
Earlier in her career, Meyer held HR Business Partner and HR Generalist roles at Getty Images across the APAC region, and held positions at Merrill and Deutsche Bank, where she developed foundational expertise in staffing coordination and HR operations.
Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate company offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing, logistics, and life sciences sectors. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, it manages and operates nearly $315 billion of real estate in approximately 250 markets globally, and manages over one million units and beds worldwide, with a robust investment management platform comprising more than $78 billion of assets under management.
The APAC region has become a focal point of Greystar’s global expansion strategy. The company established an Asia-Pacific platform in 2017, opened its first Japanese office in Tokyo in 2019, and secured its first Australian multifamily deal that same year. Managing around $4 billion of assets in Asia Pacific, the firm has been positioning itself to benefit from rising rental demand driven by demographic shifts, low home affordability, and housing undersupply in cities such as Tokyo, Sydney, Melbourne, and Shanghai.
The pace of activity has intensified markedly. In December 2024, Greystar completed the acquisition of a seven-asset, 5,662-bed purpose-built student accommodation portfolio in Australia for A$1.6 billion – its largest transaction by value in the Asia Pacific region to date. The portfolio spans Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Canberra, and complements The Gladstone, a 612-unit build-to-rent development recently opened in Melbourne.
Meyer’s appointment signals that Greystar recognises people capability as central to sustaining this expansion. As markets across APAC mature at different rates and competition for senior talent intensifies, the ability to attract, develop, and retain high-calibre professionals will be as consequential as deal flow or capital deployment. Her cross-sector experience – spanning technology, media, and financial services – equips her to build a people function that is both regionally nuanced and globally connected.
