Tyson Pitzer
Principal, Capital Advisory
SIE, Series 82
Mr. Pitzer is a Principal and member of the Capital Advisory team at Park Madison Partners. He is responsible for asset-level financial analysis, underwriting and due diligence, is involved with partnership structuring and strategic advisement, and oversees project management activities on all capital advisory assignments. He is also actively involved in business development and other firm-level strategic and operational activities.
Prior to joining Park Madison Partners, Mr. Pitzer was a Principal at C6 Real Estate, a New York-based investment manager focused on principal investments and recapitalizations. Prior to C6, Mr. Pitzer was a portfolio manager at Madison Marquette, a national real estate investment manager and developer, where he was responsible for overseeing a $485 million opportunistic private equity real estate fund, comprised of over 20 million square feet, and ultimately overseeing its recapitalization resulting a new joint venture partnership with a major private equity firm.
Mr. Pitzer earned an MBA in Finance/Real Estate from The University of Texas at Austin and a BS in Engineering from Texas A&M University.
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What do you like best about your job?
One of the best parts of working in the Capital Advisory group is the opportunity to interact with some of the real estate industry’s most successful individuals and teams, and as a result have the opportunity to hear and understand not just their strategies and business plans but often also how they approach problems and opportunities. I learn something new in almost every call or meeting we have.
What is fueling the growth of GP-led secondaries?
For a small segment of the market, groups have been executing GP-led secondary transactions for years. But for a large part of the market, this is still a novel concept. As general partners and investors learn about the space given the transaction volume which has been steadily increasing the past 5+ years, they quickly understand how effective a tool it can be – to provide not only liquidity for assets which are not ready to be sold but also optionality in ways that conventional exit mechanisms do not.
If you weren't in financial services, what would you be doing?
I would have been a landscape architect. I love being outside, I love design, and I love nature and plants. I also like the idea that with some imagination and the right materials, you can transform a raw space that could be unsightly or hardly used into something that not only looks beautiful and inviting, but also becomes a space that people actually use - to socialize, connect, or entertain in.