Phillip A. Gesue is the Chief Development Officer at Strategic Capital (the New Jersey-based investment arm of China Construction America (CCA), a subsidiary of state-controlled Chinese builder CSCEC), where he had previously served as head of real estate.

Between stints at Strategic Capital, Gesue was an executive vice president at The Witkoff Group, a real estate investment and development company founded by Steven Witkoff, where he oversaw Witkoff's development projects.

Prior to CCA, Gesue was a company officer and head of global real estate for Orient Express Hotels, a NYSE publicly-traded luxury hotel company, and director of acquisitions and development for Time Equities, Inc.

Gesue has a Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics from University of Pittsburgh, and graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture with an MS in Real Estate Development. He is a board member of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation and New York's Art Omi International Arts Center.