Jeff T. Blau is CEO and a Partner of Related Companies where he is responsible for leading the company’s $70 billion portfolio of assets owned and under development, spanning virtually every sector of the real estate industry. As CEO, Mr. Blau sets the strategic direction for the company’s growth and expansion, including the pursuit of new business opportunities, corporate acquisitions and financing activities. Some of the firm’s signature accomplishments include the development of Deutsche Bank Center (formerly Time Warner Center) and Hudson Yards. 

Under Mr. Blau’s leadership, the firm remains deeply committed to its roots developing and preserving affordable housing. The company owns and manages more than 61,000 units of affordable housing and is currently developing Willets Point, the City’s largest all-affordable housing development in 40 years, and redeveloping NYCHA’s Fulton & Elliott Chelsea Houses. 

Mr. Blau is the Chairman and Founding Partner of energyRe, an energy company established in 2019 out of the firm’s sustainability practices that develops utility-scale transmission, generation, storage and distributed generation solutions. In early 2025, Mr. Blau unveiled Related Digital, which today is a leading vertically integrated data center development and investment platform with a $45 billion development pipeline of more than 6 GWs of near-term power. The firm currently has projects underway in Ontario, Wyoming, Michigan, and Missouri.

Mr. Blau’s serves on the Board of Directors of Equinox Holdings, Inc., Sun Communities (NYSE: SUI), Robin Hood Foundation, The Wharton Graduate School, The University of Michigan, Lincoln Center, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, the New York City Partnership Fund and the Real Estate Roundtable. 

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