Edward Cheung
Senior Vice President, International
Welltower Inc.
Edward Cheung is Senior Vice President, International at Welltower Inc, and leads the Company’s Canadian and UK portfolios in addition to select seniors housing and medical office investments across North America.
Prior to joining Welltower, Edward Cheung was a Managing Partner at BFIN, a Brookfield Company (NYSE: BAM) with a focus on structured finance and M&A advisory. Mr. Cheung led various capital market initiatives including the privatization of public and private real asset and resources companies, the formation of a global real estate platform listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the strategic recapitalization on several billion-dollar portfolios of real estate properties to long-term strategic capital partners. Mr. Cheung held responsibilities in the United States and Canada and was particularly active in sourcing strategic LP capital from foreign investors into North American domicile real estate opportunities.
Prior to joining BFIN, Mr. Cheung was at GE Real Estate where he underwrote more than $1 billion in real estate transactions. He also spent five years as a management consultant at Deloitte focused on telecommunications, energy and financial services.
Mr. Cheung holds an MBA from INSEAD and graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Systems Design Engineering.