Sara Cassidy

Sara Cassidy is a Managing Director at AEW and Senior Portfolio Manager for AEW's U.S. open-end, core strategy. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Fund’s investments and operations as well as working closely with investor relations on marketing and providing support to the Fund’s investors. She co-chairs the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and is also a member of AEW’s Talent Committee. Ms. Cassidy joined the firm in 2018. Prior to joining AEW, Ms. Cassidy had been with J.P. Morgan Asset Management since 2006, and she most recently held the title of Executive Director. In that role, she was responsible for the origination and structuring of real estate investment transactions in the Northeast, focusing on acquiring core, value-add and opportunistic office, residential, retail and industrial real estate. Prior to J.P. Morgan, she was a vice president with Related Capital, where she was an acquisitions officer for the tax credit equity group and an associate with Joseph J. Blake and Associates, a commercial real estate appraisal firm. Ms. Cassidy holds a B.A. in finance from Boston College and serves as a council member for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and is a past President of NAIOP Massachusetts.