Bio- Moina Banerjee, CFO, JBG Smith
Moina Banerjee has served as our Chief Financial Officer since December 2020, prior to which she served as Executive Vice President, Head of Capital Markets since December 2018 and as an Executive Vice President since our formation in 2017. Ms. Banerjee worked at JBG from August 2010 until our formation, serving as a Principal in the Investments group and on the Management Committee. Prior to joining JBG, Ms. Banerjee worked at the Blackstone Group in New York, focusing primarily on office, hotel, and senior living acquisitions. She also worked within Citigroup’s Investment Banking Division in New York (NYSE: C).
Ms. Banerjee graduated with a Bachelor of Science in International Economics from Georgetown University and earned a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Show Notes
- Promoted in early 2021 to CFO (5:40)
- Joined JBG 12 yrs ago in acquisitions initially in hotels and then in workouts and disposition (5:45)
- James Iker and Leslie Ludwig approached her to build an Asset Management function (7:20)
- A bit more discipline from an institutional perspective (7:30)
- She was approached by Matt Kelly to help prepare an S-11 for preparing an IPO (over 300 pages long) (8:15)
- Day to day responsibilities (9:45)
- Six teams report up to her- Capital Markets, Portfolio Mgmt., Investor Relations, Accounting, Tax, IT (10:00)
- Great learning experience
- IPO process is “years in the making” (11:00)
Origins and Education
- Parents moved from India to England in the 1970s where she was born (12:20)
- Dad was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in England
- Moved to DC area when she was 6 months old and grew up in Bethesda, MD (13:00)
- Attended St. Andrews School
- Family had a profound impact on her (13:30)
- Strong female role models (14:00)
- Maternal grandmother- huge influence (14:10)
- Mother went back to get MBA when she was 5 yrs. old and her Father was traveling considerably (15:00)
- Her Aunt was a top advertising executive in India for Leo Burnett (15:30)
- Interview with Namita Mukharjee- her maternal grandmother (16:40)
- Attended Georgetown and studied International Economics (19:10)
- Her Father was her inspiration due to his work for the IMF traveling worldwide in very transitional times in many countrie...
