Bruce Schonbraun

Bruce Schonbraun is the Group Head of Real Estate at FTI Schonbraun McCann Group (SMG), an international real estate consulting firm, headquartered in New York City.  Mr. Schonbraun is the founder of SMG, which was acquired by FTI in 2008.  He is a nationally recognized real estate leader and business advisor to the public and private real estate sectors, providing counsel on strategic real estate matters, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, REIT transactions, and capital markets transactions.   He is also the co-founder and co-CEO of EdgeRock Realty Advisors (an FTI related company), a boutique investment banking firm dedicated to the real estate industry. Prior to founding SMG, Mr. Schonbraun was associated with Price Waterhouse & Co. He has instructed at both the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and the Seton Hall University Graduate School of Business on subjects related to real estate merger and acquisition strategies and federal taxation of real estate transactions.  Mr. Schonbraun holds a B.S. in accounting, an M.B.A. in both economics and international business and is a Certified Public Accountant in New York, New Jersey and Florida. Mr. Schonbraun has authored numerous articles and is a much-sought after resource to the press on a wide variety of real estate matters related to capital markets, finance, strategic business planning, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Schonbraun has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Dow Jones News Service, FOX National Business News, Bloomberg – Business & Financial News, Real Estate Forum, Real Estate New York, Real Estate New Jersey, Commercial Property News, Real Estate Portfolio, Private Equity Real Estate, National Real Estate Investor, The Institutional Real Estate Letter, REIT Street, Crain's New York Business, Development, The Real Deal, The Star-Ledger, New Jersey Business, NJBIZ, The Daily Record, and Nikkei News (Japan). Mr. Schonbraun is a member of the board of various charities and community groups and a member of NAIOP, NAREC, NAREIT and IRETO, as well as the Zell-Lurie Real Estate Institute at Wharton, where he has served as a mentor in the Wharton Real Estate MBA program.  Mr. Schonbraun has been recognized by NAIOP with its “Industry Service Award,” and a number of publications have named him among its “Who’s Who” of business leaders. Among the honors he has received is the “Torch of Learning Award” from the Lautenberg Cancer Research Center at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, presented to him by President Clinton.