Erik Gustafson

Erik Gustafson is Manulife Investment Management's Senior Managing Director, Head of Real Estate Asset Management for the United States. Erik joined the company in 2019 and is responsible for real estate investment assets within the U.S., encompassing a 23 million square feet portfolio of office, industrial, and multifamily assets. He is responsible for increasing portfolio performance through active and accretive asset management, developing, and implementing effective programs that maximize portfolio returns with a focus on the needs of our external investment vehicles as well as Manulife's General Account. He is also responsible for enhancing the asset management platform, as well as leading due diligence of new markets, as the company continues to broaden the asset management platform across the U.S.

Erik comes to Manulife Investment Management with over 22 years' experience in the real estate and financial services industries. Prior to joining the company, Erik was the Global Head of Portfolio Management at the Pembroke Real Estate group of Fidelity Investments, where he was responsible for overseeing portfolio strategy, strategic asset initiatives, and performance across a 9 million square foot global real estate portfolio in fourteen gateway markets. Prior to heading Portfolio Management at Pembroke, Erik was responsible for targeting and managing investment into multiple new global markets and identifying, developing, and executing investment and development strategies that maximized asset values for Pembroke's investors. During almost 15 years at Fidelity, Erik spent time based in the Boston and London offices and in 2010 launched Pembroke's Stockholm office to actively manage and grow a multi-country Nordic portfolio.

Erik began his career with Arthur Andersen and Capgemini Ernst & Young in New York City. Erik received his Bachelor of Arts, Economics at Trinity College in Hartford and his Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School. Erik has been active in ULI for almost 20 years in both the U.S. and Europe, and he is currently a member of the Global Exchange Council.