Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Temerity Strategic Partners, a Chicago based private equity firm established in 2023. Managing Principal of Hectad Strategic Partners, a private investment firm he founded in 2021. Founder of Square Mile Capital Management LLC, (now known as Affinius Capital), a private institutionally backed New York based firm established in 2006 to focus on real estate equity and credit investment opportunities. He served as Square Mile s Managing Principal from 2006 until 2017 and Vice Chairman/Senior Advisor from 2017 until 2020, and currently serves as Special Advisor. Co-Founder of Blackacre Capital Management LLC (now known as Cerberus Institutional Real Estate) from 1994 until 2005. Managing Director of the Commercial Mortgage Investment Unit of Oppenheimer & Company, Inc. from 1993 to 1994. Vice President of the Distressed Real Estate Principal Group of Credit Suisse First Boston, Inc. from 1991 to 1993. Vice President of the Real Estate Investment Banking Unit of Chemical Bank from 1986 to 1991. Attorney in the real estate practices of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP from 1983 to 1986. Previously served as an Independent Director of Trinity Place Holdings from 2018 to 2024, and as an Independent Trustee of First Union Real Estate and Mortgage (now known as Winthrop Realty Trust) from 2001 to 2003. Serves on the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Art Museum, and on the advisory boards of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and the Hood Museum of Art.