John Phelan's Email & Phone

Mr. Phelan is Co-Managing Partner of MSD and Co-Founder of the firm. Prior to forming MSD, he was a Principal from 1992 to 1997 at ESL Investments, a Greenwich, Connecticut based investment firm. At ESL, John was responsible for ESL's Special Situation Investments and helped grow the firm from $50 million to over $2.0 billion in assets under management. Prior to ESL, John was Vice President in charge of Acquisitions (Western Region) for the Zell-Merrill Lynch Real Estate Opportunity Funds. John began his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he worked from 1986 to 1988 as an Analyst in the Investment Banking Division. John received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1990 and graduated cum laude with distinction and Phi Beta Kappa from Southern Methodist University in 1986 with a B.A. in Economics and Political Science. John also holds a General Course degree with an emphasis in Economics and International Relations from the London School of Economics. John is on the Board of Trustees of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Chairman of the Investment Committee), the Aspen Art Museum (Executive Council) and the Whitney Museum. He is also on the Investment Committee for the SMU Endowment, the Executive Council of the Cox School of Business, the North American Advisory Board of the London School of Economics and is the Major Gift Chair of the Harvard Business School Class of 1990. He is also a Board Member of the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation.