Spencer B. Haber
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, H/2 Capital Partners LLC
Spencer B. Haber is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of H/2 Capital Partners, a global institutional investment manager focused on credit, hard assets and special situations. Since its inception, H/2 and its affiliates have completed over $55 billion of investments on behalf of leading investors, including pension funds, sovereign funds, insurance companies, foundations, and other institutions globally.
Mr. Haber is also the Founder and Chairman of H/3 Foundation Inc., a global philanthropy dedicated to creating game-changing progress for animals through media, education and direct action. Through H/3, he is actively involved in various animal welfare endeavors and related media projects, including the production and co-production of feature-length and short documentary films on animals, the environment and associated topics. Spencer is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Humane Society of the United States, one of the country's largest animal protection organizations. Among his other philanthropic activities, Mr. Haber has created a Career Excellence Program in partnership with the United States Tennis Association to provide early professional development and career training to teenagers from under-resourced communities from around the United States.
Mr. Haber holds a bachelor's degree in economics, summa cum laude, from the Wharton School, where he was named a Benjamin Franklin Scholar, and a master's degree in business administration, also from the Wharton School, where he graduated a Palmer Scholar. He is past Chairman of the Executive Committee for Wharton's Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center and previously served on the Board of Directors for the Pension Real Estate Association, as well as the Advisory Board for Columbia Business School's Real Estate Program, and the Board of Governors and as Chair of the Investor Forum for the CRE Finance Council.