Jeff Granowitz is a Managing Director in the Equity Capital Practice at Ackman-Ziff, responsible for identifying equity investors for joint ventures, programmatic partnerships, bridge transactions, acquisitions, recapitalizations of existing ventures, and distress. His equity investment experience exceeds $9 Billion in transaction value, covers multiple business cycles and includes strategies ranging from core to opportunistic. Jeff maintains relationships with private equity funds, family offices, insurance companies, sovereign investors, and other institutions that provide equity, preferred equity and mezzanine capital.

Prior to joining Ackman-Ziff, Jeff was a Managing Director at Mission Capital where he focused on raising debt and equity for clients. He was also a Managing Director at Magnum Management Services, where he advised clients on investing, acquiring and disposing of distressed assets. Jeff was a former Principal at Praedium Funds, an institutional real estate private equity firm that has raised in excess of $10 billion in private equity funds to acquire real estate assets. Additionally, Jeff held real estate investment positions at Credit Suisse, GE Capital, Tishman Realty and Salomon Brothers (now Citibank). Jeff has an MBA from the Kellogg Business School and a BS from the Wharton School.