Robert Lieber

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Mr. Robert Lieber serves as Executive Managing Director at Island Capital Group. He served as Chief Executive Officer at ACRES Commercial Realty Corporation. He also serves as the Executive Managing Director at C-III Capital Partners, which he joined in July 2010 after having served under New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as Deputy Mayor for Economic Development. Prior to joining the Bloomberg administration in January 2007, he retired from Lehman Brothers after 23 years, serving most recently as a Managing Director in Lehman's Real Estate Private Equity Group and prior to that as the Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking. He also served as a director of Tutor Perini and as a director of ACRE Realty Investors, a publicly traded real estate investment trust headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. In September 2016, he was appointed as a director of Resource Innovation Office REIT, Inc., a public non-traded real estate investment trust (REIT), and was named the President and Chief Executive Officer of Resource Capital Corp., a publicly-traded REIT, each of which is managed by affiliates of Resource America, Inc., which was a wholly-owned subsidiary of C-III Capital Partners LLC. He also served as a Board member, Secretary of the Board, and Trustee for the Urban Land Institute and is a former Chairman of the Zell-Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He brings extensive expertise and insight into financial and political matters pertaining to real estate and infrastructure development projects, gained through his experience in the financial and government sectors. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School.