Marc Ganzi is an American businessman. He is the President and CEO of

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, and is the founder and former CEO of Digital Bridge Holdings and Global Tower Partners. He is also a polo player.

Early life

He received a Bachelor of Science in business administration from the

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He interned in the

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for Stephen M. Studdert, special advisor to President

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in 1989. In 1990, Ganzi served as an assistant Commercial Attaché in Madrid for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Foreign Commercial Service Department.

Career

After graduation, Ganzi bought distressed real estate for

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. He worked at

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

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. In 2003, he founded Global Tower Partners, a telecommunications company headquartered in

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'', 07/02/2007 He served as its Chief Executive Officer and built the company into the largest privately held operator of U.S. cell towers. The company was purchased by

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() in 2007, and, in 2013, American Tower Corporation () acquired GTP for $4.8 billion. In 2013, Ganzi and Ben Jenkins founded Digital Bridge Holdings, an investor and operator of mobile and internet connectivity companies. Digital Bridge Holdings was acquired by Colony Capital in 2019, where Ganzi took over as CEO-elect. On July 1, 2020, he became CEO and President of Colony Capital. In 2021, the company rebranded to become

, a digital infrastructure investment firm, and he remained in those respective positions.

Polo

He is a one-goal polo player.Audi International Polo for the Westchester Cup
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Ganzi has a royal game as Prince Harry's teammate
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'', May 29, 2013 He also owns the

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. In 2009, together with

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, Gonzalo Pieres and Nicolas Pieres on the

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team, he won the U.S. Open Polo Championship.Horace A. Laffaye, ''Polo in the United States: A History'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2011, p. 347 The same year, he also competed in the 2009 Miami Beach Polo World Cup in

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. On May 15, 2013, he played with

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at the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup at the Greenwich Polo Club in

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, a charity match to raise US$1 million for

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. On July 28, 2013, his Equus & Co team, together with Polito Pieres, Nic Roldan and

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, lost the Westchester Cup.

Personal life

He is married to Melissa Ganzi, who is also a polo player. She has played polo with

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and

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. They have two children together, son Grant and daughter Riley, who are also polo players. They reside in

References

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