Eric Poretsky is a senior vice president at The Witkoff Group, a real estate investment and development company. Poretsky oversees the firms acquisitions, financings, and project development. Prior to joining Witkoff, Poretsky was a director at Strategic Value Partners, a global alternative investment fund, where he was responsible for the acquisition and workout of distressed real estate projects. Prior to Strategic Value Partners, Poretsky was a vice president with Starwood Capital Group Global, where he focused on the acquisition of real estate equity and debt investments. He previously worked in the mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance groups at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Poretsky received his Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University in 1999 and completed his MBA, with an emphasis in real estate, at the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley in 2005.

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