Marc Warren joined Ackman-Ziff in March 2012, serves as a Principal in the firm, and is an experienced real estate investor and financier with over 25 years’ experience in the commercial real estate business. At Ackman-Ziff, Mr. Warren both originates and executes debt, equity and investment sales transactions as well as leading its loan sale advisory and lender finance practices.
In 2005, he joined Black Creek Capital in opening its New York office and co-founded Dividend Capital Total Realty Trust as its President; a public company, “TRT” raised over $800 million in equity under Warren’s leadership and successfully invested in over $1.5 billion in US property acquisitions as well as significant investment in various real estate securities. At Black Creek, he also served as the advisor to various mutual funds the company created that invested in real estate securities.
In 2007, Mr. Warren established Linear Realty Capital, an investor and advisor in various US commercial real estate properties and loans and a partner in a venture that owned a large interest in a public company operating the world’s largest energy exchange (since merged into a larger public competitor). Additionally, Warren has advised, financed and/or invested in over 50 loan portfolios (the bulk of which were non-performing) totaling over $2 billion in purchase price. Counterparties on these transactions included US government entities, banks, life insurance companies, among others.
Mr. Warren graduated from the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the late Professor James A. Graaskamp and studied Art / Architectural History at Wisconsin as an undergraduate. He has served on the Board and Executive Committee member of the JCC of Manhattan, as Trustee and Vice President of the Jewish Communal Fund, a $1 billion donor-advised charitable fund. A frequent public speaker, he has taught classes in the real estate / finance departments of Columbia University, NYU, University of Wisconsin-Madison, other business schools and many conferences.