Ronald M. Dickerman

President

Mr. Dickerman is the President and Founder of Madison International Realty with primary responsibility for investment strategy, capital formation and risk management.  Mr. Dickerman has raised over $1.3 billion in capital and invested over $2.5 billion in commercial real estate over his career.  Mr. Dickerman has significant experience providing joint venture and preferred equity to commercial real estate owners and investors within all major asset classes who are looking to recapitalize investments, restructure balance sheets, provide existing partners with an exit strategy or redeploy capital for new investments.

Mr. Dickerman has over 25 years of experience focused on the analysis, acquisition, financing, management and disposition of income-producing assets such as real estate, mortgage products, healthcare properties, leased equipment, media properties, oil & gas, as well as other specialty assets.  Prior to founding Madison in 1996, Mr. Dickerman was President and Founder of First Equity Realty, LLC, a real estate investment firm specializing in the acquisition of under-performing real estate assets from financial institutions.

During the period from 1987 to 1991, Mr. Dickerman was an investment banker in the Real Estate / Partnership Finance Group at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., Inc., where he was responsible for the origination, analysis, structuring, acquisition, asset management, disposition and marketing of real estate and other limited partnerships.

Mr. Dickerman is an active member of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) and a frequent speaker on the topic of secondary investments and liquidity at real estate conferences throughout the country.  Mr. Dickerman earned an MBA degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and a BA degree from Tufts University.