Jeffrey D. Furber

Jeffrey D. Furber serves as the global chief executive officer of AEW. As one of the leading real estate investment advisors, AEW currently manages $75 billion of real estate assets and securities on behalf of a global client base of public and corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations and high net worth investors. Mr. Furber has oversight responsibility for all of AEW’s operating business units in the United States, Europe and Asia. He chairs AEW’s management committee, which is responsible for AEW’s strategic direction and for managing the firm’s resources, and is a member of the firm’s risk management committee and the investment committees in North America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Furber joined AEW in 1997 from Winthrop Financial Associates (“Winthrop”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apollo Advisors, where he served as managing director of Winthrop and as president of Winthrop Management. In these capacities, he was responsible for acquisitions, asset management and capital markets activity, including the sourcing of equity and mezzanine debt investments. Mr. Furber is a member of the board of Boston Children’s Hospital Trust and the board of the Ogunquit Playhouse and served as a member of the board of The Howard Hughes Corporation (NYSE: HHC) from 2010 to 2022. Mr. Furber holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.