Michael Sales
CEO, Nuveen Real Assets, Nuveen
Mike Sales is CEO of Nuveen Real Assets. He brings 30 years’ experience and expertise
to the role which involves responsibility for Nuveen’s circa $145bn real assets business.
In addition to executive responsibility for Nuveen Real Estate, Sales is accountable for
setting and driving strategy across Nuveen’s impact and infrastructure teams and
investment specialists – Westchester, Gresham, Greenwood and AGR. He ensures
Nuveen delivers investment performance and world-class service that is in line with
clients’ expectations. Career highlights include his instrumental position as part
of the M&A team that merged Henderson Global Investor’s and TIAA’s real estate
platforms in 2014 and its subsequent global growth. Sales is also a prominent speaker
on discussing key issues and trends within the real estate market. He began his career
in 1989 as a development surveyor at Morgan Grenfell Laurie, before being appointed
Head of the UK Investment Agency in 1993. His tenure at Nuveen Real Estate dates
back to 1994 when he joined the Henderson property business as an investment
manager. Sales graduated with a BA Honours in Business Studies and holds an
M.Phil in Land Management. He is a member associate of the Royal Institution of
Chartered Surveyors and a member of the Investment Property Forum.
