NEW YORK CITY—J.P. Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets has hired Alexia Gottschalch for the newly created position of head of business development and client strategy, Real Estate Americas. She will lead the 220-member team responsible for raising capital and advising clients for the firm's Real Estate Americas investment platform, which has $54 billion in gross assets under management and 220 professionals.

“Our clients are sophisticated and require a partner with deep product and market expertise,” says Doug Doughty, global head of business development at J.P. Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets. Doughty. “With more than 20 years of experience, Alexia is the rare professional who combines deep real estate investment acumen with a thorough and thoughtful understanding of institutional client needs, goals and motivations.” Gottschalch will be based in New York and report to  Doughty.

Gottschalch joins the company from Grosvenor Fund Management, where she was global head of capital markets. Earlier in her career, she led capital-raising efforts for Independence Capital Partners, Prudential Financial, Tishman Speyer and ING. 

Real Estate Americas is a leader in core, core-plus, value add and opportunistic US real estate equity investing for both US and non-US institutions. Among its fund lineup is the industry's largest US core real estate commingled fund, JPMCB Strategic Property Fund, with $25.6 billion in net asset value. “The strategies across the risk spectrum are best-in-class and incredibly well positioned to help institutions—from defined benefit and defined contribution plans to endowments, sovereigns and insurance companies—achieve their investment objectives,” Gottschalch says.