Principal Global Investors has hired Salika Khizer as managing director, real estate marketing, working closely with both the real estate portfolio management teams and generalist sales and consultant relations staff to raise capital for the firm’s U.S. and European private real estate and global property and infrastructure securities products.
Before joining Principal in 2021, Khizer worked at Walker & Dunlop Investment Partners as a director of capital formation responsible for marketing and fundraising. Prior to that, Khizer was a vice president at CIM Group, where she focused on institutional and private wealth fundraising, specializing in private equity real estate, debt, infrastructure, corporate credit and qualified opportunity zones.
Prior to joining CIM, Khizer was a managing director at Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI), where she focused on business development with pension funds, endowments, foundations, family offices, insurance companies, consu
