Andrew J. Czekaj is the Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of Cambridge Holdings LLC and its operating subsidiaries with a primary focus on the strategic direction of the company, capital structures and new business opportunities. Mr. Czekaj has an extensive background in commercial real estate including development, project capitalization, asset acquisition/disposition as well as asset restructures.
Mr. Czekaj has been instrumental in the development, financing, acquisition and structuring of over $8 billion of commercial real estate. Mr. Czekaj has structured the development and acquisition of more than 24 million square feet of office and industrial product on behalf of partners and clients. Since 2020, he has spearheaded the effort into logistics and distribution— structuring the acquisition of 10 million square feet of industrial space. The portfolio spans from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic to the Southeast region. In addition, he was instrumental in restructuring a $1 billion-plus commercial and residential portfolio concentrated in the Mid-Atlantic, Southwest and Florida markets.
Mr. Czekaj is a co-founder of Self Storage Zone, a self-storage platform that developed and acquired in excess of 3.5 million square feet of self-storage facilities valued at more than $500 million in the New York, Washington, DC metro and Florida markets. Currently, Self Storage Zone is developing four new facilities in the Washington, DC metro market.
Mr. Czekaj is an alumni of Rutgers University, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He attended The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, then obtained his Master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Czekaj is a member of NAIOP. Mr. Czekaj served for nine years on the Board of Trustees for Rollins College and as a board member of the Stimson Center through 2018.