Daniela Gastner
Managing Director, Real Estate, the University of Pennsylvania
Daniela Gastner has more than 27 years of experience in the real estate industry. She is currently a Managing Director for the University of Pennsylvania’s endowment. Daniela is responsible for constructing and implementing strategic investment plans for the real estate asset class, which includes establishing investment policy, sourcing and underwriting potential investments with external managers and overseeing performance.
Daniela has a broad range of experience in real estate, including acquisitions, asset management, finance, and investor relations. She spent a decade at Crow Holdings in Dallas, a private business that manages the capital of the Trammell Crow family. As head of capital markets, she was responsible for raising debt and equity capital for real estate investments. During her tenure at Crow, she also acquired and managed commercial real estate investments.
She spent two years at Equus Capital Partners (formerly Berwind Property Group) in Philadelphia, raising the firm’s private real estate funds and managing investor relations. She also spent four years with her family’s real estate business based in Philadelphia, overseeing a portfolio of real estate investments.
Daniela holds a BS from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a member of the Urban Land Institute – Small Scale Development Product Council