Jeff is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Temerity Strategic Partners. Jeff also serves as Managing Principal of Hectad Strategic Partners, a private investment firm that Jeff formed in 2021 to identify and provide strategic capital to early-stage real estate platforms and entrepreneurs.

Until December 2020, Jeff served as Vice Chairman/Senior Advisor of Square Mile Capital (now Affinius Capital), a private investment firm with a focus on real estate and related opportunities which Jeff founded in 2006. As of 2023, Square Mile managed over $10 billion of capital across various credit and equity funds for institutional investors. In 2012 USAA Real Estate acquired a significant minority interest in Square Mile and established a strategic partnership, with Jeff serving as Square Mile’s Co-Managing Principal through 2017. In December 2020, USAA RE purchased Jeff’s remaining ownership interest in Square Mile, and in March 2023, Square Mile and USAA RE merged and rebranded as Affinius Capital. Jeff continues his affiliation as a Senior Advisor to Affinius Capital and a member of the investment committees for Square Mile’s pre-2022 funds and vehicles.

Prior to founding Square Mile, Jeff served as President of Blackacre Capital Management which Jeff co-founded in 1994. Blackacre (now Cerberus Institutional Real Estate) is the dedicated real estate arm of global investment firm Cerberus Capital Management. Prior to co-founding Blackacre, Jeff was a Managing Director at Oppenheimer & Co. (now CIBC) where he served as head of the firm’s Commercial Mortgage Investment Unit. From 1991 through 1993, Jeff served as a Vice President at First Boston (now Credit Suisse) where he was a founding member of the firm’s Distressed Real Estate Principal Group. From 1986 through 1991, Jeff was a Vice President in the Real Estate Investment Banking Unit of Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan). From 1983 through 1986, Jeff was associated with the New York law firms of Proskauer Rose and Kelley Drye & Warren as an attorney in each firm’s real estate department.

Jeff graduated from Dartmouth College and received a JD from the Columbia University School of Law. Jeff currently serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of Tanger Outlets Inc. (NYSE: SKT) and Trinity Place Holdings Inc. (NYSE: TPHS); the Advisory Boards of MetaProp and V3 Capital Management; the Board of Advisors of the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS); the Real Estate Roundtable and the Urban Land Institute (ULI); and is the Chair Emeritus of the Board of the Hood Museum of Art.