Our Team
At Alliance, our human capital is our most valuable asset, and we value diversity of thought. Our team is comprised of dedicated professionals that are passionate about bringing innovative and collaborative ideas to our partners.
Executive Team
Heather Fernstrom Border is a versatile, performance-driven, real asset professional building deep Limited Partner and Consultant networks over nearly two decades. Her diverse real asset experience helps create new investment products, best-in-class marketing materials, elevated corporate governance, along with Investor Relations goals and objectives for investment managers looking to differentiate themselves amongst their peers.
Her passion for helping others is the fundamental reason for forming Alliance Global Advisors, now advising investment management organizations with over $620 billion in aggregate assets under management. Prior to Alliance, Heather was Managing Director for National Real Estate Advisors and held positions with Hunt Investment Management and The Townsend Group. At those firms, she was responsible for assisting institutional clients in developing investment objectives, strategic planning, underwriting investments and capital raising. Heather’s professional experience also includes seventeen years within the private and public real estate sector, where she developed, implemented and led Investor Relations platforms. Throughout her career, she held memberships at the National Association of Office and Industrial Properties (NAIOP), Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) and Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI) among others. Heather continues to speak and moderate various panels on industry-wide topics. She is an Advisory Board member of Outsourced Research & Capital and was recently asked to participate on PREA’s Governance Committee. In 2022, Heather received the GlobeSt. Women of Influence award and the GlobeSt. Real Estate Forum’s 50 under 40 award.
Heather Fernstrom Border
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Jennifer Stevens is an executive-level professional with real asset expertise and extensive knowledge of the General Partner & Limited Partner Universe.
Her professional experience includes sixteen years of institutional portfolio management and consulting, strategic and investment planning, real asset investment underwriting and a specialization in areas including Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and industry best practice.
Jennifer held several positions within The Townsend Group, advising clients with cumulative total plan assets of over $300 billion and approximately $20 billion in Real Estate allocations. She was a voting member of Townsend’s Advisory Investment Committee, responsible for reviewing and approving due diligence reports and strategy for all advisory clients of the firm. Her clients included Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles Fire & Police, Orange County, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles City, San Diego City, Sacramento County and Queensland Superannuation Plan.
She has served as a representative member of the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment (UN PRI), Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), Institutional Real Estate Investors (IREI), Women in Institutional Investment Network (WIIN) and National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) in addition to speaking at numerous educational and industry events.
Jennifer Stevens
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Leah Dillon is a senior-level investment professional with extensive real asset knowledge of the institutional landscape.
Prior to joining Alliance, Leah was a member of the Client and Partner Group at KKR, covering institutional clients and consultants in North America with an exclusive focus on the KKR Real Estate platform. Prior to joining KKR, she was a senior vice president for Prologis Inc, covering European and Canadian clients for their strategic capital business. Ms. Dillon brings over two decades of experience working in various roles within real estate investment banking, asset management and capital raising at Sabretooth Capital Management, Macquarie Group Limited, Citigroup Property Investors and AEW Capital Management.
Leah is a current member of WX and CHIEF. She is a former Board Member of Friends of Larchmont Parks and was a co-host and mentor of IREI Springboard. She holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Babson College. She holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses.
Leah lives in Mamaroneck, NY, with her two boys, Jack and Sam and their cat, Mono. In her spare time, she enjoys paddle boarding on the Long Island Sound, listening to live music, spending time with friends and family and learning new things (currently pickleball and tennis).
Leah Dillon
Chief Operating Officer & Head of Partner Engagement