Co-Founder

Joseph P. Beninati co-founded Antares in 1996 with his partner, James P. Cabrera. Together, they have built Antares into a vertically integrated real estate development and private equity firm, employing approximately 120 professionals, with over $6 billion in assets consisting of more than 10 million square feet. In 2007, Antares was ranked 226th on Inc. magazine’s list of the fastest growing U.S. companies, with a three-year growth rate of 1,008.7%.

In 1997, Antares was the founding investor in Greenwich Technology Partners (GTP), a 13-office, 600-person global engineering firm. Soon after, Mr. Beninati became chairman of the firm, a post that he held until 2002. From 1997 to 2002, GTP saw a growth rate of 7,082% over a five-year period and was ranked the 9th fastest growing U.S. company by Inc. magazine. The company was sold in 2006. Prior to founding Antares, Mr. Beninati was a private equity investor and became chairman and CFO of Telos, a defense contractor with a staff of 2,200, where he is credited with a $1 billion contract from the U.S. Army before the sale of this investment.

Harvard Business School and Ernst & Young LLP have recognized Mr. Beninati as one of America’s top entrepreneurs. He has been the subject of multiple articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Dealmaker magazine. Mr. Beninati is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and a former board member of its Fairchester Chapter.

Mr. Beninati was born in the Bronx, New York, and graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1982, where he first met Mr. Cabrera. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and religion from Middlebury College. After college, his career began on Wall Street working for Dean Witter Reynolds in investment banking.

Residing in Greenwich, Connecticut, with his wife and three sons, Mr. Beninati is strongly rooted in the local real estate marketplace. He is a devoted philanthropist and a supporter of the Robin Hood Foundation, the March of Dimes, Greenwich Hospital, Choate Rosemary Hall, and Brunswick School.

Mr. Beninati and Mr. Cabrera have led Antares together for eleven years, maintained a business relationship for seventeen, and close personal friendship for over twenty-five.