Nikita Rao joined Tishman Speyer in 2024 and leads Tishman Speyer’s residential platform in the United States. In this role, she oversees the firm’s U.S. residential portfolio and pipeline including Tishman Speyer’s market rate, workforce, and affordable assets in the United States. Prior to joining Tishman Speyer, Nikita spent over five years at Nuveen Real Estate where she launched and oversaw the firm’s U.S. Cities Multifamily Fund, an open-ended housing vehicle. Her responsibilities for the Fund included strategy, acquisitions, dispositions, asset management, financing, capital raising, investor communications and presentations, ESG implementation and marketing. Prior to Nuveen, Nikita was a Senior Vice President at Federal Capital Partners where she spent a decade in multifamily asset management and led development and portfolio management for a series of value-add multifamily funds. She also worked in asset management at The Carlyle Group. Nikita is a Steering Committee Member of the Women’s Leadership Institute. She received her BA in Accounting from Villanova University.