Sam Barbieri is Managing Director, Portfolio Management and Development at LaSalle. He is also Deputy Fund Manager of the LaSalle Canada Property Fund. As a senior member of the LaSalle Canada team, he takes part in managing investments for a broad institutional client base. Additionally, he is responsible for overseeing the firm’s property development initiatives in Canada and in recent years has completed development projects in the multi-family, industrial, office and retail sectors, in various markets across the country.
Prior to joining LaSalle, Sam served in progressively responsible roles with both Oxford Properties Group and Bentall Real Estate Services, managing large mixed-use portfolios in Toronto’s downtown core. He began his real estate career in 1994, where in his early roles he acted in a fiduciary capacity, managing private sector assets on behalf of third-party owners.
Sam has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Toronto and a Diploma in Urban Land Economics (DULE) from the University of British Columbia and is graduate of Harvard University’s Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate. He is a past president of the NAIOP’s Greater Toronto Area Chapter, (2019), and was chair of the NAIOP’s Sustainability Committee from 2013 – 2016. He is currently a board member of Realpac’s ESG and Fund committees.