Roger Cozzi

Roger Cozzi is Chief Investment Officer for Commercial Real Estate Debt in AB's Real Estate Investment Group (ABCRED). He joined AB in 2012 to create the Real Estate Debt investment platform. ABCRED has in excess of $6 billion in institutional commitments from insurance companies, pension funds and banks. Prior to joining AB, Cozzi served as chief executive officer at Gramercy Capital Corp., a NYSE-listed REIT, from 2008 to 2012, where he was responsible for repositioning and recapitalizing an approximately $8 billion balance sheet consisting of more than 1,000 net lease investments, $3 billion in commercial real estate collateralized debt obligations, and $3 billion in whole loans, subordinate investments and commercial mortgage-backed securities. Before that, Cozzi was a managing director at Fortress Investment Group, where he was responsible for commercial mortgage investments. From 1998 to 2007, he held various senior-level positions, including chief investment officer and co-head of the Investment Committee at iStar Financial, a NYSE-listed REIT, where he successfully priced, structured and originated over $3 billion in first mortgages and subordinate positions. Prior to that, Cozzi spent more than five years evaluating commercial mortgages for principal investments at Starwood Capital Group and Goldman Sachs. He holds a BSE in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Location: New York