Jay serves in a strategic role as head of real assets for Nuveen, responsible for the investment process and performance of the firm’s listed real estate, global infrastructure and real asset income strategies.

Jay is the creator of Nuveen’s Global Infrastructure strategy, which invests in listed infrastructure companies, and has been a portfolio manager since its inception in 2007. He is also the creator and a portfolio manager for Nuveen’s Real Asset Income strategy, which invests in income-generating debt and equity securities from both the real estate and infrastructure segments, since its inception in 2011. In addition, Jay has been a portfolio manager for Nuveen’s Real Estate Securities strategy, which invests primarily in equity real estate investment trusts (REITs), since he joined the firm in 2005. Prior to joining Nuveen, he served as a real estate portfolio manager for Advantus Capital Management and a real estate fixed income analyst at Sit Investment Advisors. Previously, Jay was a development manager for office and office/warehouse products at Welsh Companies and a land use planner at Siemon, Larsen & Marsh in Chicago.

Jay graduated with a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a master’s degree in Urban Planning and Public Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.