Tess joined Bailard's real estate team in 2015. As Senior Vice President, her responsibilities include acquisitions of new investments as well as portfolio and asset management to the real estate portfolio. Prior to Bailard, she was a Vice President at Allianz Real Estate in New York, providing portfolio and asset management for Allianz's equity and debt investments as well as sourcing new fund investments. She began her career in the Asset Management group of Kennedy Associates. Tess received an MBA in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin School of Business and has a BA in Economics and Political Science from Beloit College. Outside of work, Tess enjoys traveling, hiking, running and cooking.