Robert J. Plumb
AEW Capital Management
Mr. Plumb is a Managing Director at AEW and leads AEW’s Direct Investment acquisitions team, a group of 15 acquisitions professionals who are responsible for sourcing, negotiating, underwriting and closing investment opportunities for AEW's core and value-added clients. Mr. Plumb has over 26 years of real estate experience, including extensive acquisitions and portfolio management experience. He is a member of AEW’s Investment Committee, Management Committee and Risk Management Committee. During his career, he has been responsible for the acquisition and structuring of over $10 billion of real estate transactions. Mr. Plumb joined the firm in 1989 as an asset manager with significant focus on industrial and office properties in California and the southwestern US. Prior to that, he worked for the Kuwait Investment Office as an Investment Manager for its US real estate and agricultural portfolio. He is active in the senior leadership of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Mr. Plumb is a graduate of Trinity College (B.A.) and Columbia University (M.S.).
One of the world’s leading real estate investment advisors, AEW and its affiliates manage $33 billion of capital invested in over $48 billion of property and securities in North America, Europe and Asia (as of June 30, 2010). On behalf of a wide range of institutional investors, AEW actively manages portfolios across the public and private markets and across the risk/return spectrum.
