A graduate of Bucknell University and the University of Chicago, Eugene Gorab launched two of the private equity real estate industry’s most successful companies. In 1991, Mr. Gorab partnered with three other real estate investment leaders to form Starwood Capital Group, LLC. Over the next six years, Eugene Gorab helped build the company into one of the industry’s leading private equity firms and successfully completed more than $2 billion of investments that included the purchase of distressed mortgages held by the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC). In addition to holding executive positions with several of Starwood’s groups and committees, Mr. Gorab served as a Trustee for the Starwood Financial Trust, an organization that later became the publicly traded iStar Financial, Inc.
Currently, Eugene Gorab serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenfield Partners, LLC, a company he founded in 1997. In addition to its Connecticut headquarters, the firm maintains offices in Chicago and Reston, Virginia. With aggregate capital commitments from both private and institutional investors totaling $4 billion, Greenfield Partners has emerged as one of the leading private equity real estate firms in the nation. In his executive role with the company, Mr. Gorab manages all investment and strategic operations, including overseeing the nine discretionary investment funds the firm has sponsored over the past 15 years.
Outside of the office, Eugene Gorab participates in several prominent real estate organizations, including the Real Estate Institute, the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He also serves as a Trustee for Bucknell University.
