Annamarie Bjorklund

Annamarie Bjorklund (AB) is Senior Vice President of Equity and Debt at Northmarq. She joins Northmarq as part of the National Equity Advisory team along with Joel Heikenfeld and Charlie Rimkus.

AB focuses on equity capitalization for developments, acquisitions and special situations for commercial real estate investments across the US. She works extensively with sponsors and equity providers including private equity funds, family offices, pension fund advisors, life companies and international equity groups looking to invest in US real estate.

Prior to joining Northmarq, AB served as associate director of acquisitions at Marquette Companies where she lead the firms acquisitions and fundraising efforts for multifamily investments in the sunbelt region. AB also completed all underwriting, analysis and closing for Marquette's development vertical in Chicago, Nashville and Houston. Prior to Marquette, AB spent four years at Origin Investments, a Chicago-based private equity fund, where she evaluated acquisitions, development, opportunity zone and debt opportunities.  

AB is the vice president of membership for REFF (Real Estate Finance Forum), Chicago's leading organization for women in commercial real estate.  

She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds degrees in real estate & urban land economics and Spanish.