Edward M. Siskind is the Founder and CEO of Cale Street Partners. Cale Street Partners (“CSP”) is a European focused real estate finance firm that provides senior and mezzanine debt as well as equity capital in partnership with best in class developers, operators, and institutions. CSP was founded in 2014 and seeded with approximately $1.5 billion from a sovereign wealth investor with a long term, patient approach to investing.
Prior to founding Cale Street Partners, Mr Siskind enjoyed a 23 year career at Goldman, Sachs & Co., both in the United States and Europe where he held a variety of leadership positions including: Global Head of the Real Estate Principal Investment Area, Head of the European Real Estate Finance and Advisory Group and Co – Head of the European Merchant Bank. He also served as Chairman of the Global Real Estate Investment Committee and as member of the European Management Committee and the Mortgage Capital Committee.
Mr Siskind currently serves on the Advisory Board of Bridges Ventures and is a member of the International Council of the Global Leadership Foundation which supports political leadership and good governance around the world. He has also served as a member of the Steering Committee of the International Advisory Board for the Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard University and has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business Administration.
Mr Siskind graduated from Princeton University with honors in 1988.