Ms. Christina Maloomian Smith, CFA serves as a Vice President of Investments at Merit Hill and has worked alongside and directly for Ms. Schlesinger for more than 10 years since she hired her at WPC directly into the Self-Storage Investment Group in 2015.  She assists in the evaluation, underwriting, closing and financing of investments; the strategic sales of assets; and the management of the portfolio. Christina has helped with the thorough review of each of Merit Hill’s assets to determine if our business plan is complete and if it makes sense to sell, helping with a total of 13 sales transactions totaling 92 properties while at Merit Hill.

Prior to joining Merit Hill in 2017, Christina worked in the Self-Storage Investment Group at WPC. During her career, she has worked on 55 self-storage investments comprising 76 properties, 14 portfolio and single-asset exits comprising 95 properties and 37 financings totaling more than $1.8 billion in self-storage transaction volume.  Prior to joining WPC, Ms. Maloomian Smith was an Experienced Associate in the Financial Instruments, Structured Products and Real Estate Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Christina graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bucknell University with a B.S.B.A. in Management with a Finance concentration, and she passed all three levels of the CFA exams consecutively.