Mr. Schwimmer serves as Rexford Industrial's Co-Chief Executive Officer and on our Board of Directors since July 2013. Mr. Schwimmer has served as Co-Founder and Senior Managing Partner of our predecessor business and President of Rexford Industrial Realty & Management Inc. since December 2001. From May 1983 until November 2001, Mr. Schwimmer, a licensed California real estate broker, served at various times as manager, executive vice president and broker of record for DAUM Commercial Real Estate, one of California’s oldest industrial brokerage companies. Mr. Schwimmer’s thirty-year professional career has been dedicated entirely and exclusively to Southern California infill industrial real estate, including its acquisition, value-add improvement, management, sales, leasing and disposition. Mr. Schwimmer has experience forming real estate investment companies, managing real estate brokerage offices, serving as a real estate brokerage company board member and acquiring, repositioning, developing, leasing, selling and adding value to over thirty million square feet of industrial properties in Southern California. Mr. Schwimmer received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California in 1983 where he majored in business with an emphasis in real estate finance and development. Mr. Schwimmer serves on the USC Lusk Center Real Estate Leadership Council, is Board Chair of USC Hillel, and is the Allocation Committee Chair of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation, Real Estate Principals Organization.

Worthe is the president of Worthe Real Estate Group, a Santa Monica-based firm that specializes in the development and refurbishment of Class A office properties in Los Angeles. Recent projects include Second Century, an 800,000-square-foot office development designed by Frank Gehry that is leased to Warner Bros., The Post in Beverly Hills, leased to Live Nation, and the Mission Logistics Project, a 1 million-square-foot industrial development. The firm has over 7 million square feet of properties in Los Angeles.

Jeffrey Worthe was appointed to the CPPA Board by Governor Gavin Newsom in August 2023. Worthe is a member and past chair of the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Board of Directors. He is a trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation, a founding member of the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate Board, and a member of the LA Sports & Entertainment Commission Core Leadership Group. He is a dedicated leader and advisor and holds a B.A. in Economics from UCSB.

BRIAN SAENGER is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Ratkovich Company (TRC), a Los Angeles-based real estate development company specializing in urban infill and historic rehabilitation of landmark properties. He previously served as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel and was responsible for overseeing the Company’s operations, including development management, property management, and legal and administrative functions. The Los Angeles Business Journal continues to list Brian as one of the 500 Most Influential People in Los Angeles.

Brian is a respected business and civic leader in Los Angeles, having been asked to serve as a founding member of the UCLA Anderson Forecast Board of Advisors. The Forecast is one of the most widely watched and often-cited economic outlooks for California and the nation. It was the first major U.S. economic forecasting group to declare that the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic had already begun. Founded in 1952, the Forecast has distinguished itself as the leading independent economic forecast for greater Los Angeles, the state of California, and the United States.

Brian is a member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Business Federation (LA BizFed). He serves as the Founding Co-Chair of LA BizFed’s Executive Initiative and a past Co-Chair of LA BizFed’s Land Use, Housing, Development, Real Estate & CEQA Committee. Representing more than 240 diverse business organizations representing 420,000 employers with 5 million employees across Southern California, LA BizFed advances policies and projects that strengthen the regional economy. Brian also serves as a member of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce’s “The CEO Council,” an advisory group of top business leaders focused on ensuring affordable housing for middle-income families and building a workforce that is prepared for the good-paying jobs of the future.

Brian is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and serves on the Urban Development and Mixed-Use Council. ULI is the oldest and largest network of cross-disciplinary real estate and land use experts in the world. He is also a member of the LAUSD Superintendent’s Business Advisory Council. Brian previously served on the Board of Directors for the California YMCA Youth & Government program and was a past Chair of the Board.

Brian joined The Ratkovich Company as the Vice President of Acquisitions and played a leading role in the Company’s acquisition of The Bloc, a 1.8 million square foot, mixed-use property in downtown Los Angeles consisting of retail, office and hospitality uses. He represented the Company in the successful negotiation of a 66-year ground lease for the development of West Harbor (formerly known as the San Pedro Public Market), a $150-million transformation of a 42-acre site along the Los Angeles waterfront in San Pedro.

Prior to joining the Company, Brian served as the Company’s outside counsel when he practiced with the international law firms of DLA Piper and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.

Brian received his Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, with honors, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. Brian is a member of the State Bar of California and a licensed California real estate broker.

Hailing from Mexico City, Arturo Sneider has dedicated over three decades to uplifting minority and low/moderate income communities in Southern California and beyond. His journey began by addressing the challenges faced by Mexican immigrants, evolving from local initiatives to the founding of Primestor, a minority-owned, 88% minority and 51% women led real estate developer with a focus on urban areas. Sneider’s leadership fosters inclusivity. Through community engagement, Primestor ensures developments meet local economic needs through job creation and infrastructure improvements. With over $1 billion invested, Primestor navigates economic uncertainties, evidenced by their recent $250 million Urban Vision Fund I launch. Their transformative projects span from South Gate to Boyle Heights, attracting institutional investors and retailers previously hesitant to engage underserved communities.

Paul Rahimian manages a national debt fund that provides bridge and construction financing to real estate development projects throughout the country. He founded Parkview Financial in early 2009 and has since originated hundreds of commercial and residential loans, always plying his trademark, hands-on management style. He has been widely recognized as an industry pioneer as he was one of the first to offer complete integration of loan origination and servicing under one roof. Prior to becoming a lender, Paul was a third-generation real estate developer and general contractor. Between 1988 and 2009, he successfully completed over $350 million in commercial and residential projects. His vast expertise and knowledge in the construction and development industry has benefited both Parkview and its borrowers. Paul received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA in Business/Economics and his Juris Doctorate from USC.

A name partner of the firm, Anton N. Natsis is Chair of Allen Matkins’ Real Estate Department and is one of the top real estate attorneys in the United States. His practice focuses on development, leasing, purchase and sale, and portfolio investment sales transactions involving office, retail, and industrial projects, as well as arbitrating numerous fair market value disputes, CAM disputes and other significant landlord/tenant disputes. He also has extensive experience in debt, equity, and joint venture workouts, and the purchase of distressed assets and distressed debt. Tony is continually sought out by some of the largest national land owners, such as J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Blackstone Real Estate, Brookfield Properties, HCP, Vornado Realty Trust, Regent Properties, The Irvine Company, Boston Properties, Equity Office Properties, Kilroy Realty, Inc., Beacon Capital Partners, MPG Office Trust, Kamehameha Schools (The Bishop Estate) and Westfield Corporation. He represents many governmental entities, including the LAUSD, State of California, and City of Anaheim. Tony is also frequently retained as counsel for major national office tenants, such as AT&T, Citicorp, the FDIC, AIG, The Walt Disney Company, and the Los Angeles Times.

A frequent lecturer and author, Tony is the chief consultant for the California Continuing Education of the Bar Commercial Leasing Series, the legal education reference book on leasing for California attorneys, is an adjunct professor of law at Loyola Law School for a course covering commercial real estate transactions, and has spoken before such national real estate groups as ULI and BOMA. Tony is a founding board member of The Ziman Real Estate Center, which is governed under the joint auspices of the UCLA Anderson School of Business and the UCLA Law School.

In the past decade, Tony has closed commercial office leases exceeding 50 million square feet. He has worked on real estate purchase contracts with a total consideration of more than $30 billion and on development transactions with a total consideration in excess of $25 billion. Since 2006, Tony has represented clients in office building portfolio investment sales transactions involving over $75 billion of consideration.

One of Tony's most significant transactions is the largest real estate acquisition deal in the history of the United States. He provided extensive real estate services in connection with Blackstone Real Estate's purchase of Equity Office Properties Trust, at that point the largest owner of office space in the U.S. other than the Federal Government, for $43 billion. Subsequently, Blackstone contracted to sell over 50% of the properties it purchased with such sales closing in the first and second quarter of 2007. Tony assisted Blackstone in its acquisition due diligence related to EOP and the subsequent sales of the properties. The transactions related to this deal included Maguire Properties' purchase of Blackstone/EOP in Orange County for $2 billion, Irvine Company's purchase of Blackstone/EOP in San Diego for $1 billion, Morgan Stanley's purchase of Blackstone/EOP in San Francisco for $2.5 billion, and Beacon Capital Partners’ purchase of Blackstone/EOP Seattle for $6.3 billion.