Bruce Schanzer is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Erez Asset Management, LLC, a fund manager focused on investment opportunities in small market cap real estate investment trusts (REITs). Prior to forming Erez in 2022, Mr. Schanzer was President, CEO and a director of Cedar Realty Trust (NYSE: CDR), a REIT focused on the ownership, operation, and redevelopment of shopping centers in the Washington, DC to Boston corridor. During his 11 year tenure at Cedar, he helped cause the company to go from an underperformer to an outperformer relative to the FTSE NAREIT Shopping Center Index. Before joining Cedar in 2011, he was a managing director in the real estate investment banking group at Goldman Sachs & Co and prior thereto a vice president at Merrill Lynch. Before working on Wall Street, Bruce was a real estate attorney in New York.