Philip Welch

Philip Welch is the Chairman and a founding Principal of SAM. He has more than 30 years of experience in commercial real estate and has been involved in over $5B of CRE transactions. Mr. Welch is currently involved in all aspects of SAM’s operations including acquisitions & dispositions, debt & equity financing and portfolio management.

Prior to founding SAM, Mr. Welch was a co-founder of Somerset Partners in New York, a Vice President in the Princeton (NJ) office of LCOR and an associate in real estate finance at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Welch is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Real Estate Center in the Leeds Business School at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also involved in many charities including the Salvation Army, American Cancer Society and the YMCA.

Mr. Welch holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the Wharton School.