Emanuel J. Friedman

Emanuel J. Friedman

Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer

Mr. Friedman serves as Chairman and Co-chief Investment Officer of EJF Investments Manager LLC.

Mr. Friedman co-founded EJF Capital LLC (“EJF”), a global institutional alternative asset management firm that has been at the forefront of regulatory, event-driven investing in financials and real estate.  Over the course of his 40+ year career in capital markets and asset management, Mr. Friedman has structured and built numerous innovative investment strategies that have focused on some of the most powerful trends in the financial sector driven by regulatory change. Prior to forming EJF, Mr. Friedman was a founder and the former Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. (“FBR”).  At FBR, Mr. Friedman assisted in designing property and mortgage REIT vehicles.  Throughout the 1990s, Mr. Friedman was active in building out FBR’s alternative asset management platform.  He was instrumental in the creation of hedge, private equity and venture capital funds at FBR, and maintains an extensive network of contacts within the CDO, hedge fund and private equity fund communities. Mr. Friedman received his BA in Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his JD from Georgetown University.

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