Mark Isaacson

Isaacson is the Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Redwood Capital Group and Redwood Residential. He is primarily responsible for the strategic growth of the firm as well as acting as the Chief Financial Officer. He has worked real estate for thirty-three years, of which the last twenty-two years were exclusively in the multi-family real estate industry, primarily as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Capital Markets. At Redwood, Mr. Isaacson has been responsible for financing over $2.5 billion of multi-family acquisitions, along with sourcing and negotiating joint venture agreements with Private and Institutional Limited Partners. Mr. Isaacson is also responsible for all financial, accounting and reporting aspects of running Redwood on a day-to-day basis. Prior to forming Redwood, Mr. Isaacson was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alliance Holdings, L.L.C. (“Alliance”) from 1999 to 2004, and 2006 to 2007. Alliance was an owner and operator of 65,000 multi-family apartments units. At Alliance Mr. Isaacson oversaw accounting, financial reporting and risk management, as well as having overall responsibility for all capital markets activities. He executed capital markets transactions in excess of $4 billion at Alliance, which included all forms of senior and mezzanine debt, preferred equity, and traditional equity raises. From 2004 to 2006 Mr. Isaacson was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at The Laramar Group in Chicago. Laramar owned and managed approximately 15,000 multi-family units throughout the U.S. Prior to joining Alliance, Mr. Isaacson worked for 10 years in the National Real Estate Division of the accounting and consulting firm Altschuler, Melvoin and Glasser AM&G (currently part of McGladrey LLP). Prior to AM&G Mr. Isaacson was an auditor with Deloitte and Touche, an international accounting and auditing firm where he worked in the real estate division. Mr. Isaacson is a Chartered Accountant (South Africa) and a Certified Public Accountant (Illinois). He graduated with distinction in 1985 from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) with a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Accounting and Auditing Major) followed by a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Honors) (Finance and Accounting Majors) and a Certificate in the Theory of Accounting degree from the University of Cape Town in 1986