Stacy Thorne (married 2013-2016 divorced) Leonard M. Tannenbaum (born August 9, 1971) is the Founder and Executive Chairman of TCG/Tannenbaum Capital Group.
[2][3] 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[3] and an exile from Cuba.
[2][4] 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.
In 2007, he launched a third fund,[6] which in 2008, after taking the advice of David Einhorn, he converted into a business development company (BDC).
In 2020 he founded TCG/Tannenbaum Capital Group out of his family office and in March 2021 took a mortgage REIT AFC Gamma public on the Nasdaq trading under the ticker AFCG and in 2024 spun out the REIT, Sunrise Realty Trust which went public on the Nasdaq trading under the ticker SUNS.
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.