Gender Male
Founder and Managing Principal at W Equities. Philippe is responsible for overseeing all functions at W Equities with a particular emphasis on financial obligations, risk management, and transaction and strategic analysis. Philippe’s active and entrepreneurial abilities have allowed him to adapt to market cycles, while always searching for new
opportunities to create value and achieve superior risk adjusted returns.
Philippe’s career in real estate has spanned over 25 years and he has acquired over $2 billion of commercial real estate in New York City, Europe, and the Caribbean. He has partnered with some of the most active global financial institutions as well as HNW investors. He has a proven track record with IRRs exceeding 25% and equity multiples of 2.4x. In 2004, Philippe co-founded Madison Capital, a real estate business that grew to acquire and manage over $1.8 billion of real estate.
Prior to founding Madison, he founded Savanna Partners in 1992, a real estate development company that pioneered residential re-development of office and industrial properties in lower Manhattan. In 2000, Philippe formed Bluestar LLC, a management company that oversees his personal real estate portfolio and other private holdings. Philippe’s passion is design and architecture. His hobby is developing high-end homes and is currently building houses in Herzlia, Israel, Southampton, NY, LA, and Anguilla. Philippe earned a B.A. cum laude in Economics from Brandeis University in 1987 and read politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford University from 1985-1986.
