Mr. Ken K. Hira serves as President for Kosmont Companies. An expert in real estate and economic development, Mr. Hira brings over 30 years of varied experience in virtually every aspect of acquisition, entitlement, development, financing, asset management, disposition, downtown revitalization, and strategic plans. His strengths include a keen understanding of retail trends, business retention/attraction, negotiating public-private transactions and implementing blended-use projects that revitalize communities and assist in economic development/tax generation programs.

A former Executive Vice President and mixed-use developer, Mr. Hira managed a portfolio of over $100 million of retail sites, while operating the commercial division of the company. Prior to this, as Managing Director of Acquisitions for a development company and Vice President of Development at a development firm, he evaluated and underwrote hundreds of acres of land, successfully captured and negotiated anchor tenant commitments creating $60 million of value in ground-up development and redevelopment and was responsible for 800,000 square feet of retail entitlement, design and development. As Vice President of a shopping center company, Mr. Hira entitled one million square feet of retail development projects, as well as led the acquisition of 24 neighborhood and community shopping centers, totaling 3.3 million square feet and valued at $375 million, and organized a $287 million recapitalization.

LICENSES / AFFILIATIONS

Mr. Hira is an active volunteer leader of the International Council of Shopping Centers. He was nominated and serves as the Co-Chair of the ICSC P3 Retail Advisory Board, nationally advocating public-private partnerships, while previously serving as the ICSC Western Division P3 Retail Co-Chair, Southern California State Director, Program Committee Chair and Alliance Co-Chair.

EDUCATION

Mr. Hira holds a Bachelor degree in Economics and Business from UCLA.