Gina Szymanski is a Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at AEW Global Securities. In this role, she also leads the Global Securities Allocation Committee, of which she has been a member since 2017. Gina plays an integral part within the firm’s Senior Leadership Team, actively contributing to AEW’s overall strategic vision and direction.

Prior to joining AEW, Gina worked at Putnam Investments for over 15 years, where she was the REIT portfolio manager for Putnam’s Research Fund, a senior member of the Global Equity Research team, and a portfolio member of the Quantitative Equity Research team. Gina held finance positions at CIBC World Markets and Matson Driscoll & Damico Ltd. In 2019, Gina was selected as the winner of Bonhill Group’s 2019 Women in Asset Management Award¹ for the Real Estate category.

Gina earned an Honors BMath in economics and business administration from the University of Waterloo and an MS in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a CFA^® charterholder, and is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society Boston.