Andrew Farkas Email and Phone Number

Andrew L. Farkas is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Island Capital Group LLC (“ICG”), a leading international real estate merchant bank specializing in real estate investing, real estate operating businesses and real estate securities. ICG presently owns controlling interests in a number of businesses which manage approximately $10 billion of assets. Among these is C-III Capital Partners, a fully diversified commercial real estate services and investment management platform, which included the named special servicer on over $245 billion of mortgage capital. Mr. Farkas has more than three decades of experience building and scaling industry leading real estate businesses and has extensive expertise finding solutions to complex problems, having navigated through numerous economic cycles, from the RTC and savings and loans crisis in the 1980s and ‘90s to the current global COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to ICG, Mr. Farkas was Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Insignia Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:IFS), a global real estate services company he created in 1990. At its peak, Insignia was the largest owner and operator of multifamily residential housing and among the largest owners and operators of commercial space in the United States, owning, controlling or managing approximately 275,000 apartments and over 200 million square feet of commercial space. Mr. Farkas is an avid philanthropist, sailor and cook. He is a supporter of and involved in The Fresh Air Fund, Playwrights of New York (PONY), The Arthur Miller Foundation, NARAL, the ASPCA, AMFAR, The Doe Fund, The Young Women’s Leadership Network, Trinity School, Harvard University and various other health, education and welfare oriented charities. He also serves as Graduate Chairman of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770. Mr. Farkas earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1982, where he majored in economics.