Jay Frank is the Founder and CEO of Sightbridge Capital Partners, an institutional firm focused on bringing tax-advantaged real estate programs to the U.S. private wealth channel. He has spent more than two decades building and scaling private markets platforms across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and credit, and has led teams responsible for $27 billion in career capital formation across Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) 1031 programs, 721 UPREIT structures, Opportunity Zones, REITs, business development companies, interval funds, and related structures.
Before founding Sightbridge, Jay served as President, COO, and Head of Distribution at Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management, a division of Cantor Fitzgerald that he co-founded in 2015 and that reached $14.8 billion in AUM. Under his leadership, Cantor built 87 investment products across Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management, including the first ’40 Act interval fund focused primarily on investing in private infrastructure, among the first Opportunity Zone programs, and one of the largest DST 1031 and 721 platforms in the private wealth channel.
Jay has been at the forefront of the DST and Opportunity Zone markets since their inception. Across his career he has been involved in 68 DST and TIC offerings representing $4.4 billion of real estate, including 55 DST offerings whose structuring and distribution he oversaw at Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management. At Cantor he also led six Qualified Opportunity Zone programs that raised $1.1 billion and represent $2.4 billion of real estate based on estimated project cost.
Jay serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Portfolio Alternatives (IPA), where he chaired the 2023, 2025, and 2026 Capitol Hill task forces advocating for the extension and improvement of the Qualified Opportunity Zone program, ultimately leading to its permanence. He sits on the editorial advisory board of Real Assets Adviser and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.
Jay holds a B.A. in Business Economics with an emphasis in accounting from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and previously held FINRA Series 7, 24, 63, and 79 licenses.
Jay lives in Santa Monica with his wife and two daughters. He is an active supporter of Happy Trails for Kids, a Los Angeles nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of foster youth across LA County.
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