Preston is an Executive Vice President and leads Bailard’s real estate investment efforts. His responsibilities include portfolio management, sourcing of acquisition opportunities, and overseeing the evaluation, due-diligence, and closing of new investments. Preston has been in the real estate investment and advisory business for over 35 years. Prior to joining Bailard, he was an Executive Vice President and Principal at Kennedy Associates (now Bentall GreenOak) where he was in charge of Asset Management and Portfolio Manager of Kennedy’s $8BN ODCE Fund. Before Kennedy, Preston was a Vice President and Regional Team Leader at GE Investments in Stamford, CT. And prior to GE, he held positi