Jay Sugarman is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of Safehold (NYSE: SAFE), iStar (NYSE: STAR) and the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer (MLS). He helped start Starwood Capital, now one of the largest real estate investment companies in the United States, and has managed private investment funds on behalf of the Burden family (a branch of the Vanderbilt family) and the Ziff family. Sugarman received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he was nominated for valedictorian and received the Paul Volcker Award in Economics. He received his M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School, graduating as a Baker Scholar and recipient of the school’s academic prizes for both finance and marketing.