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Scouting report · HHH

Carlos A. Olea

  • Chief Financial Officer, HHH since 2022-01src

Howard Hughes CFO since Jan 2022; joined in 2017, Chief Accounting Officer 2019-22

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Not ranked yet

Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design67operating income, strategic, individual, book value, time only · 97.6% for · 2.40% of net income
Skin in the game54stake worth $4.4m, 1× last year's pay
Age
48src
In the role
5 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
—
Dodges / 100 answers
—
Airtime on calls
—
Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 4

  • His bonus pays on the old real-estate scorecard (operating-asset NOI, MPC EBT, condo profit, cash G&A, strategic goals, 25% individual). Nothing in it covers Vantage (acquired 2026-06-04). 2025 paid at the 120% capsrc
  • The 2025-04-01 amendment, signed about five weeks before the Pershing Square deal, added a 'Transaction' trigger (a holder reaching 40%). Leaving for good reason within 24 months pays 2x salary plus target bonus and vests his time-based equitysrc
  • Has almost disappeared from the calls. By speaker label he took 2-3 turns a call in Q3 2024 to Q1 2025, one a call through Q4 2025, and none in Q1 or Q2 2026, when the Executive Chairman and CIO presented the numberssrc
  • Small stake: 67,055 shares (about 0.1%), of which 51,607 are unvested restricted stocksrc

In their favour 1

  • From 2026, 80% of his annual equity grant (target raised to $1.975m) vests on three-year absolute cumulative TSR. Hedging and pledging are bannedsrc

Career

  1. 2022 – now
    The Howard Hughes Corporation / Howard Hughes Holdings Inc.src
    Chief Financial Officer
  2. 2019 – 2022
    The Howard Hughes Corporationsrc
    Chief Accounting Officer
  3. 2018 – 2018
    The Howard Hughes Corporationsrc
    EVP, Accounting
  4. 2017 – 2017
    The Howard Hughes Corporationsrc
    VP, Accounting Policy & Reporting (joined 2017)
  5. 2014 – 2017
    Carr Properties (Washington, D.C. owner-operator and developer)src
    Chief Accounting Officer

Undated in the sources

  • Ernst & Young, Advisory Services; AvalonBay Communities (Arlington, VA)src, Senior Manager at EY; Director of Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting at AvalonBay

Not located: Before 2014: the EY and AvalonBay years are not dated in any source read, and nothing before them was located

Achievements

  • Rose inside Howard Hughes from VP of accounting policy (2017) to Chief Accounting Officer (2019) to CFO (January 2022)src
  • The 2025 proxy credits him with about $920m of financing, acquisition and disposition activity in 2025, including $339m of refinancings on six properties and a $200m upsizing of the Floreo facilitysrc
  • Chief Accounting Officer of Carr Properties from 2014 to 2017 before joining Howard Hughessrc

Education

  • Georgetown University, Master's in Real Estate Real estate financesrc
  • ITESM (Tecnológico de Monterrey), Mexico, BS Accounting and Financesrc

Background

  • Other An accountant by training (EY advisory, AvalonBay technical accounting, CAO at Carr and at Howard Hughes) rather than a capital-markets hiresrc
  • Other Employment agreement runs to 2028-12-31 (extended from 2026 by the April 2025 amendment), then renews yearly; 12-month non-compete and non-solicitsrc

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

8
  1. Filing Howard Hughes Holdings DEF 14A, 2026 annual meeting of 2026-09-30 (0001104659-26-098808) · 2026-08-19
  2. Filing Howard Hughes Holdings 8-K Items 5.02/5.07, 2025 annual meeting results (0000929638-25-003820) · 2025-10-07
  3. Filing Howard Hughes Holdings 8-K Item 5.02, employment agreement amendments of 2025-04-01 (0001104659-25-032249) · 2025-04-04
  4. Filing The Howard Hughes Corporation 8-K Item 5.02, Olea appointed CFO, with dated career (0001104659-22-003652) · 2022-01-12
  5. Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 1981792 (FY2025 10-K, 0001628280-26-009710) · 2026-02-19
  6. Filing Form 4, Carlos A. Olea (reporting CIK 1905411), tax withholding of 2026-02-05 (0001104659-26-012167) · 2026-02-09
  7. Filing EDGAR submissions index for CIK 1981792, every Form 4 filed 2025-09-01 to 2026-09-24 (49 filings, XML read) · 2026-09-24
  8. Call transcript HHH Q2 2026 earnings call (2026-08-06), ROIC.ai; turn counts by speaker label taken across all eight files in _transcripts/HHH/