Ethan Penner
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Ethan Penner

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Ethan Penner is the Managing Partner of Mosaic Real Estate Investors, a Los Angeles based investment manager founded in 2015. Mosaic specializes in the intersection of structured finance and real estate. Ethan is a recognized pioneer in the fields of real estate and finance, specializing in real estate, mortgage credit, and financial markets. Ethan is most well-known for his work with Nomura Securities in the 1990’s where he is broadly credited with being the driving force behind the creation of the CMBS industry. With Nomura’s financial backing, he established a real estate finance operation that re-defined the mortgage finance industry, making Nomura the dominant brand in the U.S. real estate finance industry. In recognition of his work Ethan received many awards including being named one of the U.S. Real Estate industry’s 100 icons of the 20th century, being voted the Real Estate industry’s Financial Services Executive of the Year for five consecutive years and being included in Global Finance Magazine’s list of the world’s most powerful people in Finance. In 2011 Real Estate Forum voted him one of the industry’s 65 living legends in their 65th anniversary issue. Ethan’s career goes back to the earliest days of the mortgage-backed securities industry, including stints at Drexel Burnham and Morgan Stanley, and CBRE. Ethan has written a book on his philosophy, entitled “Greatness is a Choice,” that will be released by Wiley in the fall of 2023. He has been an adjunct professor at Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business since 2017 and before that at University of Southern California, teaching real estate and mortgage finance, capital markets, and global macroeconomics.
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