Richard Ressler — CIM Group

Co-Founder and Principal

THE LATEST: Ressler is a co-founder and principal at CIM Group. He is also the chairman of CIM’s Executive, Investment, Allocation and Real Assets Management committees. Ressler also serves on the firm’s Credit Committee. CIM Group has a portfolio of roughly $30 billion of real estate and has led a total of $60 billion worth of projects.
BACKGROUND: Ressler co-founded CIM Group with Shaul Kuba and Avi Shemesh in 1994. Prior to CIM, Ressler founded investment firm Orchard Capital Corp. in 1993. He has also served as vice chairman at Brooke Group Ltd., worked as an investment banker at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. and was an attorney at Cravath Swaine & Moore. He serves on the boards of CIM Commercial Trust Corp. and J2 Global Inc.
YEARS ON THE LA500: 6
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