Marc Ganzi

After graduation, Ganzi bought distressed real estate for Resolution Trust Corporation.^[4]

He worked at Deutsche Bank, where he oversaw investments in the radio tower sector.^[1]

In 1993, he co-founded AD Development Corporation, a real estate development company in the Mid-Atlantic states, where he worked until 1994.^[1] He co-founded Apex Site Management, which was purchased by SpectraSite, and he served as group president for a year.^[1] In 1998, Ganzi founded Eureka Broadband, an application service provider and high-speed Internet access corporation.^[1][5] From 2000 to 2002, he was a partner in DB Capital Partners in New York City.^[1][2]

In 2003, he founded Global Tower Partners, a telecommunications company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.^[1][6] He served as its chief executive officer and built the company into the largest privately held operator of U.S. cell towers.^[1][4] The company was purchased by Macquarie Group (ASX: MQG) in 2007,^[6] and, in 2013, American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) acquired GTP for $4.8 billion.^[7]

In 2013, Ganzi and Ben Jenkins founded Digital Bridge Holdings, an investor and operator of mobile and internet connectivity companies.^[8] Digital Bridge Holdings was acquired by Colony Capital in 2019, where Ganzi took over as CEO-elect.^[9][10] On July 1, 2020, he became CEO and president of Colony Capital. In 2021, the company rebranded to become DigitalBridge, a digital infrastructure investment firm, and he remained in those respective positions.^[4]

In 2024, hours after DigitalBridge's acquisition of Verizon Wireless's cellular towers, the nation experienced wipespread outages. Further inflating issues in recovery and resource coordination after Hurricane Helene.^[11][12]

He is married to Melissa Ganzi, who is also a polo player.^[13] She has played polo with William, Prince of Wales and King Charles III.^[13] They have two children together, son Grant and daughter Riley, who are also polo players. They reside in Wellington, Florida.^[13]