David Rich is founder and Managing Partner for SVN – Rich Investment Real Estate Partners. With nearly 30 years of commercial real estate experience, he oversees Advisor activity in Los Angeles and Ventura county regions. Rich opened the SVN Los Angeles office in 1999, which he currently manages along with the firm’s Encino and Ventura offices. Since its opening, the Los Angeles office has consistently ranked among the top offices in the firm nationwide. Rich is also a professor of real estate finance for Pepperdine University’s full-time MBA program in Malibu, California.

Prior to joining SVN in 1998, Rich acted as director of acquisitions for Tower Holdings, a real estate investment trust. Previously, he was the vice president of Rodeo Canon Development, a private investment company where he negotiated and closed more than $1 billion in commercial real estate transactions. Rich’s transactional experience includes a 2,500-unit apartment portfolio in Houston, Texas, a 500,000-square-foot regional shopping mall in Atlanta, Georgia, and a 160,000-square-foot office building in Sherman Oaks, California.

Rich holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing and an Executive MBA from Pepperdine University’s School of Business and Management.