Zeke Faham currently serves as Chief Investment Officer of Box Equities overseeing all of the firm’s existing and new investments. Prior to Box, Zeke was a Principal at The Carlyle Group where he launched a dedicated real estate credit platform and acquired a $3.0 billion net lease portfolio which included $1.0 billion of industrial properties. Prior to Carlyle, Zeke spent nine years working at Tishman-related enterprises, first at Tishman Realty for seven years and subsequently Aecom Capital for two years. At Aecom Capital, Zeke led a team of ten investment and development professionals, sourcing and executing co-GP real estate equity investments in concert with the fund’s JV partner, Canyon Partners.
Zeke began his career at the publicly traded mortgage REIT, iStar Financial, where he underwrote and closed over $1.5 billion of first mortgage and mezzanine loans secured by industrial, hotel, condominium, multifamily, data center, and mixed-use properties. During the Great Financial Crisis, he worked on over $1.0 billion of loan restructurings and managed the firm’s liquidity forecast reporting directly to the Chairman and CIO. Over the course of his career, Zeke has closed over $6.0 billion of real estate credit and equity investments across virtually every real estate asset class.
Zeke graduated with a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, with concentrations in finance and real estate. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three daughters.