Marc Blazer

Co-founder, CEO at Boutique Homes

Speaker

Marc Blazer is the owner and general partner of Overture Holdings, an investment management firm with interests in hospitality, food and travel companies. He is the founder and CEO of Boutique (formerly BoutiqueHomes), the only platform of handpicked homes and small hotels by and for creatives. In addition, he is co-founder and angel investor in PRIOR, a luxury travel business. From 2013-2020, he was Chairman of the Board of Noma Holdings, parent company of the Danish restaurant Noma, Restaurant 108, restaurant Barr, and INUA restaurant in Tokyo. Marc was also General Partner of 108 House, LP, a hospitality real estate investment vehicle with assets in Copenhagen. Since July 2019, Marc is Director of The Australian Agriculture Company (ASX: AAC), Australia’s oldest company and largest landowner. From November 2009 until January 2010, Marc was the CEO of Protagoras Capital, and a managing director of its parent company BTIG, an institutional trading firm based in New York and San Francisco. From August 2007 until January 2010, Marc was President of Overture Acquisition Corp., then a $150 Million NYSE/Amex listed consumer brand investment vehicle. From November 2000 to August 2007, Marc was a partner and the global head of investment banking at Cantor Fitzgerald. While at Cantor Fitzgerald, he served on the advisory board of Enertech Capital III, a venture capital fund from March 2006 to July 2007. He was named one of Investment Dealer’s Digests 40-under-40 in 2006. Prior to joining Cantor Fitzgerald, he spent six years at ChaseMellon Financial Corp. (now Bank of New York Mellon), a joint-venture between JP Morgan Chase and Mellon Financial Group LLC from 1994 to 2000. Earlier in his career, Marc was an advisor to a member of Congress in the US House of Representatives and to Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, on tax matters, banking and securities legislation, international trade policy, and foreign relations. Marc earned a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics in 1992, and a BA from the University of Maryland in 1990. Philanthropically, he was a Founder of and Chairman of the Board of the MAD Foundation, a 501c3 focused on creating a better world through a better meal, and a member of the Advisory Board of Kopernik, a US non-profit organization focused on marrying life-enhancing technologies with under served communities in developing countries. Marc is married to Esther Wahrhaftig, and has two children, Tristan and Clio.