Please join us as we honor Aliza Karney Guren at JFEDLA’s REC Dinner on Tuesday, November 17th, in Century City.
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Young Leadership (35 & under who also give $1,000+) ― $360
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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Aliza Karney Guren is Executive Chairman and former CEO of Karney Properties. During the past 25 years, she has led Karney Properties through multiple transitions and growth phases and, since taking the helm, has increased the scale of the business operations several times over. She is also a mother, grandmother, wife, and philanthropist.
Following the retirement of her father, David Karney, who founded the company, Aliza managed the transition of the firm from her father’s leadership to a family-owned and managed enterprise by modernizing operations, repositioning the portfolio, and increasing acquisitions. The first growth phase began after the global financial crisis of 2008, when she made pioneering investments in the emerging creative office markets of Culver City, developed industrial projects, and invested throughout L.A. County and Orange County. Ten years later, she engineered the firm’s transition from an owner-manager business to a firm led by herself and a professional management team. This ushered in a second phase of growth and enhanced risk management, when the firm diversified outside Southern California into Arizona and repositioned the portfolio into a more focused mix of high-quality assets with greater tenant, geographic, and industry balance.
Most recently, Aliza has focused on facilitating the ownership transition from her Generation Two to Generation Three of the Karney family. She’s played an integral role in establishing a family-based governance system, creating an advisory board, and developing a management team — all to position the firm to sustainably prosper for future generations. She is also leading a move into new, innovative areas of real estate transactions and services.
Before Karney, Aliza practiced law and worked as a mediator. She also founded and directed an independent nonprofit arts organization and worked at the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Film Institute. She has served on the Boards of American Jewish University, United Jewish Federation, and various Harvard College committees. Aliza currently serves on the Board of the Center Theatre Group and the Board of Trustees of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. She also mentors women in the real estate industry.
Aliza holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and a law degree from Harvard Law School. She has been married to her husband, Marc, for over 44 years, and has two children, two grandchildren, and two dogs.
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