SAJE Capital

Mr. Daitch founded SAJE Capital in 2015. After leading Funds Management and later serving as Chief Investment Officer at ESR Group, one of the largest real estate developers and fund managers in Asia, he has reinstituted SAJE Capital to engage directly in real estate opportunities on his own account and advise sponsors, operators, and institutional allocators on complex transactions.

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Principal Investing

SAJE Capital pursues select real estate opportunities directly, drawing on over 30+ years of global institutional investment experience across acquisitions, structuring, and portfolio management.

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Strategic Advisory

SAJE Capital advises sponsors and operating partners on deal analysis, transaction structuring, and strategic positioning — informed by senior leadership roles managing multi-billion-dollar institutional platforms.

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Mr. Daitch has served on a range of corporate, non-profit, and advisory boards, including audit committee roles with Ames True Temper and mbi, and Chairman of the Board and Compensation Committee Chair at Gustafson Lighting. His advisory board experience includes Sterling Capital, Madison Realty Capital, JEN Partners, Woodbourne Canada, Terranum, and Paladin. He also served on the Executive and Nominating Committees of the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership and the Investment Committee of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago.

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Mr. Daitch received his master of business administration degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor of business administration degree with high distinction from the University of Michigan.

 

Real Estate Track Record

• $3.5B+ realized track record at over 20% IRR, generated during his tenure at ESR Group

• Led ESR's Group capital team through 129 capital raises totaling $32.9B of equity 

• Grew ESR's public platform from ~$12B to ~$150B in AUM through pre-IPO growth, its 2019 Hong Kong listing, and 2025 privatization

• Founded and led Mesirow Financial's institutional real estate fund-of-funds business, investing across 37 underlying partnerships representing $43.6B of fund equity worldwide​​

 

Private Equity Track Record

• Five sponsored transactions totaling over $390M of enterprise value, an 84% weighted average IRR (2.53x ROIC), with active directorships across six portfolio companies

• Portfolio Manager for Mesirow's global private equity fund-of-funds business, over $5B of AUM

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