Jennie Kalberer

Jennie Kalberer is a Partner at The Green Cities Company, the Portland-based sustainable real estate investment manager that rebranded from Gerding Edlen Investment Management in January 2021. She joined the predecessor firm, Gerding Edlen, in 2011 as Director of Marketing & Design, where she worked on market assessment, underwriting input, and the positioning and branding of the firm's assets. Over time her role expanded into oversight of design, interiors, and community programming across development projects, working alongside architects and construction teams. Today, as Partner for Design, Development & ESG, she oversees brand strategy, capital improvements, and ESG execution across the firm's portfolio, directing creative teams, project managers, and ESG consultants. She also serves as the firm's DEI&A Officer.

She brings more than 20 years of experience in design and construction to the role. Her focus areas include driving competitive differentiation through human-centered design, advancing tenant health, and integrating environmental sustainability into the firm's operations and assets — themes consistent with Green Cities' positioning as one of the early U.S. adopters of sustainable real estate strategies (Gerding Edlen was founded in Portland in 1996; its investment management group launched in 2009).

On education, Kalberer holds a BFA in Sculpture and Drawing from the Oregon College of Art and Craft and an MBA in Finance from the University of Portland, and she is LEED AP certified (ID+C). She has served on the Women Build Committee of Habitat for Humanity and was a juror for Portland's "Street Seats" design program (2018).

Important accuracy note: The known stub described Jennie Kalberer as an "Angel Investor" making "Seed Round" investments. Public sources do not support this. Her verifiable role is as a real estate investment-management executive focused on design, development, and ESG — not a startup angel investor. The angel/seed designation likely originates from an investor-aggregator database (e.g., Foundersuite) and should be treated as unverified. No startup/seed-stage investments by her could be found.

• Operates within real estate investment management, not venture/startup investing. The Green Cities Company pursues Value-Add, Core, Core-Plus, and Build-to-Core real estate strategies through a vertically integrated model spanning design, development, asset management, and property management.
• Her personal mandate centers on design, brand, and ESG — "holistic" integration of design and operations that reflect the firm's sustainability values, including tenant health, environmental performance, and biophilic design.
• The firm's stated approach is a socially responsible one: "acquiring, operating and developing vibrant properties that positively enhance communities, neighborhoods and the planet."
• No evidence was found of personal check sizes, target startup profiles, or a seed-stage thesis; treat any such figures in third-party databases as unverified.