Nan Leake currently serves on the Investment Advisory Committee of the Virginia Retirement System and the Board of VCU Investment Management Company. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Hodes Weill & Associates, a global capital advisory firm focused on the real estate investment and funds management industry.  Previously, she served on the Funds & Co-investments Investment Committee of Blue Earth Capital, a global impact investing firm based in Switzerland, and on both the Board and Investment Advisory Committee of the Richmond Retirement System.

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Ms. Leake retired as a Partner in the Private Real Estate business unit at Partners Group, a global private markets investment manager with $174 billion in assets under management. During her decade-long tenure at Partners Group, Ms. Leake was responsible for advancing the firm’s real estate investment strategies and managing investor relationships. Throughout her 35-year career, Ms. Leake has been involved in all aspects of real estate investing, having worked exclusively with institutional investors to design, structure and implement their global real estate investment strategies. Prior to joining Partners Group, Ms. Leake was a senior consultant at Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc. (“PCA”), whose discretionary real estate asset management business was integrated into Partners Group in 2007. Before joining PCA, she worked at Property Investment Advisors, Inc., the Virginia Retirement System and NBS Realty Advisors.

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Ms. Leake is also involved with Shalom Farms, a leading grower and provider of local produce and food access programing in at-risk communities in Richmond, Virginia. She has served on the boards of both Shalom Farms and The Maxwelton-Lachlan Foundation, which provides summer camp scholarships to needy youth. Ms. Leake also served on the UVA Real Estate Committee, a volunteer group of alumni with expertise across the real estate industry, championing an effort to raise significant private philanthropy to launch a formal University of Virginia Real Estate Center.

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Ms. Leake is active in timber investing, regenerative agriculture and land management in Central Virginia. She resides on her farm in Goochland County with her husband and beloved dog.