Amy Feng

Executive Vice President, Edelman Smithfield

Amy Feng has over 25 years of experience advising C-suite executives and Boards of Directors on financial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, digital transformations, leadership transitions, cyber breaches, shareholder activism, growth and revenue drivers, risk and litigation matters.

Ms. Feng provides the Whitestone REIT Board of Trustees with significant financial and real estate expertise gained through providing strategic advice to some of the largest REITs throughout her multi-decade career, including American Campus Communities, Cedar Fair, ClubCorp, Healthcare Trust of America, Iron Mountain, Monmouth Real Estate, Prologis, and Public Storage on various strategic matters. Ms. Feng has been a member of the Whitestone REIT Board of Trustees since 2022, is a member of the Audit and Compensation committees, and assuming election at the Annual Meeting will become a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee.  

Ms. Feng currently serves as an Executive Vice President, Strategic Situations and Investor Relations at Edelman Smithfield. Prior to joining Edelman, she served as Shopify's Head of Investor Relations from 2022 to 2023 and Managing Director at Joele Frank Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher, a top-ranked leader in strategic, financial, and crisis communications, from 2016 to 2022. During her time at both companies, she advised executives and Boards on a wide range of critical issues of importance to shareholders and other stakeholders. Her positions on NACD and NIRI equip her with the ability to help Boards elevate their performance and create long-term value. Ms. Feng has also served as an Executive Vice President at Abernathy MacGregor and built her financial expertise as Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst at JMP Securities and as an Equity Research Senior Analyst at Lehman Brothers and JMP Securities. Ms. Feng earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Chemistry from Cornell University, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Northwestern University.