President
Jay joined Slate in 2023 and serves as President. He oversees the firm’s investment processes, operations and provides strategic guidance and planning across all of the divisions of the integrated platform. He has over 30 years of experience structuring, acquiring, developing, and financing various real estate strategies. Jay is the founder of Deal Lake Capital, a real estate investment and advisory firm that has a focus on family offices and special situations. Prior to that, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Winter Properties, the vertically integrated real estate investment arm of Standard Industries, a multi-generational owner, operator and manager of properties in the Tri-State area, in addition to originating structured debt investments throughout the capital stack. Before Winter, he was a founding principal of Latus Partners, a real estate investment manager focusing on opportunistic and value add opportunities across the country and before that, a law partner at Solomon Weinberg LLP (now Greenberg Traurig), where he focused on the structuring and financing of complex real estate transactions. Jay graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and English, and received his JD from University of Chicago.
