Sara Cassidy is a Managing Director at AEW and Senior Portfolio Manager (East Coast) for AEW's U.S. Core Strategy. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the management of the Fund’s East Coast portfolio and providing investor relations support to the Fund’s East Coast based investors. 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 an associate with Joseph J. Blake and Associates, a commercial real estate appraisal firm and a vice president with Related Capital, where she was an acquisitions officer for the tax credit equity group. Ms. Cassidy holds a B.A. in finance from Boston College and is active in the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and NAIOP.