Joseph M. Jacobs, President, co-founded Wexford Capital LP in 1994, and co-heads WREI. Joe is primarily responsible for overseeing the private equity and real estate activities of WCLP. He has served on the boards and creditors’ committees of a number of public and private companies in which WCLP has held investments. From 1982-94, Joe was employed by Bear Stearns & Co., Inc. where he attained the position of Senior Managing Director. While at Bear Stearns, Joe was active in bankruptcies and restructurings and was responsible for all of the firm’s real estate investment banking activities, including debt and equity financing of real estate on both a private and public basis, real estate investment, and advisory services. From 1979-82, he was employed as a commercial lending officer at Citibank, N.A. Joe holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.