Martin Schiffman has been a recognized leader in all facets of real estate investment for his entire career. He has participated in over $1 billion in transactions, many as a Managing Principal, in all asset classes in the industry. Mr. Schiffman's most noteworthy achievements are as a "value-added investor", deploying skills most associated with such activity; urban land strategies, direct asset development, renovation, credit reorganization and financing. He has a unique combination of skills in the area of real estate development, operations and capital market strategies employed to finance all types of real estate. He has been, both, a public and private manager of real estate investment.
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Mr. Schiffman has been a Managing Director of Carl Marks & Co. Inc., one of the nation's oldest investment firms, for over twenty years. He founded the real estate division on a theme of "value-added" strategies. He acts as President of all Carl Marks real estate affiliates and, through one such partnership, founded the Greater Philadelphia World Trade Center, which will be built on the site owned by the partnership. He serves on several Boards of Directors; the World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia, the corporation he established in concert with the Delaware River Port Authority to provide trade related services to local area businesses; the World Trade Centers Association, the global governing body for over 300 WTCs around the world, and; The Philadelphia Developer's Workshop, an industry trade group designed to monitor legislation and its effect on the city's real estate industry.
Prior to Carl Marks, he was President and CEO of Lehman Realty Corporation, where he led a dramatic expansion resulting in a fourfold increase in limited partnership sales to Lehman Brothers customers. Earlier, Mr. Schiffman managed various affiliates of Sonnenblick- Goldman Corp., a leading international real estate finance specialist, in its investment advisory capacity to MGI Properties and North American Mortgage Investors, two NYSE REITs. He became a partner in Manchester Advisory Corp., the
S-G affiliate managing MGI Properties (the equity REIT) where through management efficiencies, revised strategic investment direction, and re-development strategies, MGI achieved its best financial results in any single period in its history.
Mr. Schiffman holds a Masters Degree from New York University, and a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from Bernard M. Baruch College. He is a licensed broker in the State of New York and a member of numerous professional organizations such as The Real Estate Board of New York, The Urban Land Institute, The Young Men's/Women's Real Estate Association of New York, The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, the Global Interdependence Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Southern New Jersey Chamber of Commerce. He regularly contributes to industry media, is a speaker at real estate industry conferences and has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University, Temple University, NYU and numerous economic development councils.
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