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Ezra Grossman joined iQ Venture Partners in June, 2005 as a Managing Director. Prior to joining iQVP Mr. Grossman held significant positions in the commercial real estate finance and sales business.
Mr. Grossman received his MBA from The Harvard Business School as a Baker School with High Distinction. He received his BS in Operations Research from Columbia University School of Engineering and was Class Valedictorian.
His initial real estate finance training was at Citibank’s real estate department. After Citibank, he joined Goldman Sachs & Co. At Goldman he was promoted to Vice President and sold/financed many major projects, including: selling 9 Regional Shopping Centers in Minneapolis and Detroit valued at $360,000,000, as well as arranging J/V equity financing for Xerox Centre in Chicago, and selling The Security Life Building in Denver, Colorado.
After Goldman Sachs Mr. Grossman moved to Urban Investment & Development, Co ("Urban"), Chicago where he arranged a $120,000,000 partial interest sale of 4 Regional Shopping Centers to JMB. He also created a program to remove excess land from Urban.
Returning to New York , Mr. Grossman joined Integrated Resources where he made participating loans on commercial properties with strong upside potential.
Mr. Grossman was then recruited to assist Moody's Investor's Services in creating their system to rate Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities. As part of this effort, he rated numerous issues totaling significantly over a billion dollars. In addition, he assisted The Financial Institutions Group in their evaluation of numerous Banks and Insurance Company's underwriting and analytic procedures.
After pioneering structured real estate finance, Mr. Grossman started The Structured Real Estate Finance Group to advise investment banks, real estate owners and other lending institutions to achieve the issuer's goals in terms of proceeds and pricing. Mr. Grossman merged his operation with Bildner Capital Corp. to arrange financings and sales of properties located in the East and Midwest.
Mr. Grossman assists The National Multiple Sclerosis Society's research efforts to fund Phase Three research and avoid "The Valley of Death" which many new drugs face. | 