Chris Zizza is Vice President at Zizza & Associates. Chris is also Vice President of Bergen Cove Realty, Managing Principal of Neptune Capital Partners, Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Navy Squared Partners, and Principal of Trellis Capital Partners.
Prior to joining Zizza & Associates, Chris spent 11 years working in institutional real estate. Chris started his career at Brookfield Property Partners as an analyst in the strategic initiatives group, evaluating and executing complex structured investments on Brookfield’s 60MM foot office portfolio as well as new investments for its various funds. After Brookfield, Chris was a Vice President at Fisher Brothers where he was responsible for sourcing, originating, structuring and asset managing investments for Fisher Brothers $200MM subordinate debt vehicle (Lionheart Strategic Management) across the top 20 MSA’s in the U.S. Investments included mezzanine loans, b-notes and preferred equity. Additionally, Chris provided asset management and capital markets analysis for Fisher Brothers 7MM square foot office portfolio in NYC and Washington DC. After leaving Fisher Brothers, Chris spearheaded new business opportunities for Paramount Group (NYSE: PGRE) to acquire existing, Class A assets in San Francisco and New York on its balance sheet while also originating mezzanine loans on transitional assets for its $800MM separate account fund. Throughout his career, Chris has been directly involved in excess of $3BN of acquisitions and loan originations.
Chris received his bachelors of business administration (with honors) from the Sellinger School of Business at Loyola University Maryland.