Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Aaron Faust is a Founding and Managing Partner of Third Leaf Partners. He oversees underwriting, investment strategy, and on-going management of Third Leaf’s portfolio. He serves on the boards of Blackberry Farm, a Relais Chateaux property in Tennessee, and ENTER.Sake, an independent producer of premium sake in Japan, and is a founder and
director of Protea Financial, which provides accounting and bookkeeping services to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Prior to founding Third Leaf, he was a Founding and Managing Partner at Terroir Capital, which owns, operates and manages select high-end resort and winery assets globally. There, he served on the boards of the Independent Lodging Industry Association, a trade association for independent hotel owners and their management teams (~3,000 members), and the California Lodging Industry Association, as well as past investments, including Meadowood Napa Valley, the Napa Valley Reserve, Sandhi, Leviathan, and Mulderbosch.
Prior to Terroir, Aaron worked at CSI Capital Management, helping to oversee non-public investments, and before that, as a corporate attorney. Aaron received his undergraduate degree in Political Science with Distinction in General Scholarship from the University of California at Berkeley and is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the State Bar of California.
