Front Office Labs — Institutional Real Estate Portfolio Management

Contributing to the conversation around AI and institutional real estate.

Front Office Labs occasionally participates in industry and private executive discussions on the changing role of AI in real estate investment organizations.

Our perspective is grounded in the work itself: institutional portfolio management, investment workflows, AI infrastructure, and the practical realities of applying new technology inside sophisticated investment organizations.

A practitioner perspective, in the right rooms.

Private Executive
Conversations

Small-group discussions with investment organizations exploring the practical implications of AI for portfolio management, investment workflows, and organizational design.

Industry Panels

Selective participation in substantive discussions at the intersection of institutional real estate, investing, technology, and AI.

Moderated Conversations

Bringing together investment, operating, and technology perspectives around emerging questions facing the industry.

Questions we are working on.

What does an AI-enabled portfolio management function actually look like?

How institutional knowledge, fragmented portfolio information, and AI can be brought together to create decision-ready outputs for investment leadership.

Where does AI actually work in institutional real estate?

Separating useful applications from demonstrations—and understanding the controls, context, and human judgment required for reliable institutional use.

How does AI change the investment organization itself?

What happens to team structure, capacity, information flow, and the role of senior investment professionals as AI becomes part of the operating infrastructure.

Experience across institutional investing, technology, and operating organizations.

Stephanie Sarkar

Head of Real Estate

Institutional real estate investor with experience across portfolio management, acquisitions, underwriting, investment committee work, and LP communications. Stephanie’s work focuses on the intersection of portfolio management, investment organizations, and AI.

Portfolio Manager & Investment Director
Manulife Investment Management · NYU Schack
Author of Inside Real Estate Private Equity

Tathagata Sarkar

Head of AI

Enterprise AI implementation and data leader with strategy consulting (BCG) experience x Data Science. Tat’s work focuses on the infrastructure, controls, workflows, and operating architecture required to deploy AI reliably in institutional environments.

Former Chief of Staff to the Chairman - real estate developer
Head of Technology & Data Science at two $1B+ organizations
Former BCG, Harvard MBA, IIM Calcutta (engineer)