CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Bobby Turner
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Turner Impact Capital; Co-Managing Partner,Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund
Bobby Turner is the CEO of Turner Impact Capital, a newly formed mission-driven real estate investment management firm based in Los Angeles focused on creating sustainable solutions for many of today's societal problems through the development of impactful infrastructure. The firm seeks "profits with a purpose," recognizing the interdependence between the two and the central role that improving property and the lives of people can play in achieving superior risk-adjusted returns.
Over the past two decades, Mr. Turner has established himself as a pioneer in the area of social impact investing. As former Chairman, CEO and Co-Founding Partner of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors LLC, he oversaw a commercial real estate and mortgage asset portfolio totaling over $12 billion, and was responsible for launching several groundbreaking funds facilitating more than $6 billion in real estate investments that have helped define the "triple bottom line" investment movement. These funds included partnerships with Andre Agassi, focusing on the development of learning friendly, environmentally responsible charter school facilities, with Earvin "Magic" Johnson focusing on building community serving retail and affordable workforce housing in densely populated, ethnically diverse communities, and with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) aimed at developing the next generation of emerging and diverse real estate managers.
Mr. Turner is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (B.S., Finance) where he serves on the University's Undergraduate Executive Board of Advisors and where he has endowed a number of initiatives focused on social impact and triple bottom line investing. Today these programs have grown to include student, faculty and institutional programs in such areas as social impact management and business ethics, summer internships for students who want to work in either the public or nonprofit sectors, curriculum development, financial scholarships for minority students, the Turner Social Impact Society and the Lauren and Bobby Turner Executive Speaker Series for Social Impact.
Mr. Turner is involved in many civic ventures, having served on the advisory boards of the Virginia Avenue Project, the Pacific Charter School Development Corporation, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City ("ICIC") and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. He has also been an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), and the Urban Land Institute (ULI).
