People
Mike Fascitelli
Michael “Mike” Fascitelli is a real-estate investor, founder of MDF Capital and co-founder and managing partner of Imperial Companies. Earlier, he spent 16 years at Vornado Realty Trust, serving as president from 1996 and CEO from 2009 to 2013. Before Vornado, he led Goldman Sachs’ real-estate banking practice and helped establish its Whitehall real-estate opportunity fund. Vornado departure announcement · SEC-filed director biography
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Known For
- Connecting institutional real-estate finance with large-scale ownership and development, first at Goldman Sachs and then Vornado.
- Leading Vornado through a period of significant expansion. The company’s 2013 announcement credited his teams with more than $22 billion in acquisitions, financed in part through $28 billion of capital-markets transactions; these are company-reported totals for the organization, not solely his individual production.
- Continuing as an investor and board member after leaving executive management. Public-company filings identify him as owner and principal of MDF Capital and managing partner of Imperial Companies. Vornado announcement · SEC-filed biography
Career
Fascitelli joined Goldman Sachs’ real-estate department in 1985 and became a partner and head of its real-estate banking business in 1992. He joined Vornado in 1996 as president and trustee and became CEO in May 2009. He left the CEO and president roles effective April 15, 2013, remaining on Vornado’s board at the time. After Vornado, he founded MDF Capital and co-founded Imperial Companies, a real-estate investment, development and management company. Later SEC-filed biographies also list board roles at Vornado, Radius Global Infrastructure and other organizations. Vornado appointment · Vornado departure · SEC proxy biography
Related Pages
- Investor People Hub
- National Investor Benchmarks Hub
- MDF Capital
- Source: Top 200 Global CRE People and Families
Sources
- Company or institutional profile
- Vornado names Michael D. Fascitelli president and a director
- Vornado CEO transition announcement
- SEC-filed board biography
- Source: Top 200 Global CRE People and Families