Tamara D. Fischer has served as an officer of NSA since its inception in 2013 and is currently our President and Chief Executive Officer, and a member of our Board of Trustees since January 2020. In addition, Tamara serves as Chairman of the PRO Advisory Committee.
Before joining NSA, Tamara served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Vintage Wine Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust focused on assets in the U.S. wine industry, from 2004 to 2008. She continued to serve Vintage Wine Trust as a consultant through its dissolution in 2010 and served in various other consulting positions until becoming involved with NSA. From 1993 to 2003, Tamara served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Chateau Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CPJ), one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the manufactured home community sector. She remained at Chateau through its sale in 2003. Prior to joining Chateau, she served as a member of the audit staff at Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers).
Tamara is a Director of Duke Realty (DRE), a member of the NAREIT Board of Governors as well as the board of the National Self Storage Association.