Jonathan Wigser joined DLC in 2002. As Chief Investment Officer, he is responsible for the acquisition, financing, and disposition of real estate assets, as well as related capital markets activities. His responsibilities as Executive Vice President of Investor Relations include marketing DLC’s real estate acquisitions to the investor community, identifying and accessing new sources of investment capital, overseeing regular investor communications, and responding to investor inquiries. He is also the co-founder and Managing Director of First Man Investment Securities Corp., the exclusive placement agent for all DLC Management Corp. real estate investments, and holds Series 7, 24, and 63 FINRA licenses.
Mr. Wigser has more than 10 years of capital markets experience with CIBC Oppenheimer, First Union Capital Markets, NationsBanc Capital Markets, and SG Cowen Securities, as well as the real estate investment banking groups of Shearson Lehman Hutton and PaineWebber Inc., and was involved in more than $20 billion of leveraged finance, acquisition, real estate, and private equity and debt transactions. Prior to joining DLC, Mr. Wigser was Director of Business Development and Strategy for i-Deal LLC, a debt and equity markets service provider, and Senior Vice President of DealComposer USA, an international finance company.
Mr. Wigser received a BA, cum laude, in economics from Williams College in 1987, and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in 1994. He previously served as a member of Fuqua’s Board of Visitors and as Chair of the school’s Alumni Council, and is currently a member of the Board of Overseers of the Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Financial Partners, and The James B. Duke Society. Mr. Wigser is a member of the ICSC.