Cia Buckley Marakovits
President and Chief Investment Officer, Dune Real Estate Partners
In her role as Chief Investment Officer and President, Cia Buckley Marakovits is responsible for the management and performance of the investment activity and operations of the firm. In addition to her management role at Dune, Ms. Buckley Marakovits is a very active member of the broader real estate community. She is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Board of Directors and Treasurer of the ULI Foundation, the Investment Committee for ULI, the Pension Real Estate Association’s Board of Directors, the Columbia Business School MBA Real Estate Program Advisory Board, and the Executive Committee of the Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Dune, Ms. Buckley Marakovits was the President of the U.S. Fund Business for JER Partners, an affiliate of the J.E. Robert Companies. Before joining JER, she spent nine years in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Bankers Trust, where she was on the principal investing team, focusing on the acquisition of a broad range of real estate assets.