Leonard M. Tannenbaum

Leonard M. Tannenbaum (born August 9, 1971) is the Founder of TCG/Tannenbaum Capital Group. TCG's mandate is committed to offering the market advantages in private credit and real estate. Previously, he was the Founder and chief executive officer of Fifth Street Asset Management, which was sold to Oaktree Asset Management in 2017. He also founded the pro-business political action committee "Keeping America Competitive". His father was a managing partner of Brecher, Fishman, Feit, Heller, Rubin, & Tannenbaum, a law firm in New York; his mother was a district administrator for the Nassau County Board of Cooperative Educational Services He graduated with a BS in economics and an MBA in finance as part of a submatriculation program from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst holder.

Career In 1998, he founded Fifth Street Finance , a finance company specializing in raising funds from private investors and investing in small- and mid-sized companies. He raised $30 million Len was honored with the M&A Advisor Lifetime Achievement and Leadership Award and inducted into the M&A Advisor Hall of Fame. In 2017 Fifth Street Asset Management was sold to Oaktree Asset Management.

In 2023 he founded TCG/Tannenbaum Capital Group out of his family office and in July 2024 took a mortgage REIT, Sunrise Realty Trust public on the Nasdaq trading under the ticker SUNS. The company lends capital to qualified commercial real estate borrowers.

Tannenbaum is a supporter of the Palm Beach Zoo, Jewish Federation of Palm Beach, Wharton University, Yo Soy Ella, PA CASA Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children, Corners Outreach and Chess in the Schools.

Tannenbaum is also the Chairman of LMT Investments LLC and the President of the Leonard M. Tannenbaum Foundation.

Personal life In 1997, Tannenbaum married Elizabeth Toll, daughter of housing developer Bruce E. Toll, in a Jewish ceremony at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia.

In 2013, he married Stacey Thorne and the couple divorced in 2016. (son, Justin)

Len married Robyn (Friedman) Tannenbaum in November 2019. They have two daughters Gemma and Ember.

He has six children (Stephen, Max, Adam, Justin, Gemma and Ember).

Max was the president of Dream Dragons, a company launched by 13 high school students through the Southwestern Connecticut chapter of Junior Achievement program, which empowers young entrepreneurs.