The president and CEO of Greenfield Partners, LLC, a premier real estate private equity firm, Eugene Gorab earned his BS in chemical engineering in 1985 from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He joined Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., as a project engineer, responsible for the development of facilities for producing liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen in Ohio, California, and the Canadian province of Ontario. Eugene Gorab returned to school in 1987 and earned his MBA from the University of Chicago.
After earning his MBA, Eugene Gorab spent two years as acquisitions officer for the Chicago-based real estate investment firm JMB Realty Corporation before he became one of the founding partners of the Starwood Capital Group in 1991. As the head of the firm’s development and land groups and senior member of the investment committee, Gorab was responsible for the successful execution of more than $2 billion in investments, many of which were acquisitions of distressed mortgages from the Resolution Trust Company.
In 1997, Eugene Gorab founded Greenfield Partners with two employees. The firm today has more than 50 employees in its corporate headquarters in Westport, Connecticut, as well as in offices in Chicago and Reston. Acknowledged as a leader in the private equity real estate industry, the firm manages more than $7 billion both in real estate and in operating companies. Gorab is responsible for all facets of the company’s operations, including investment, asset management, and operations, as well as investor relations and strategy.