Rod Chisessi - Senior Vice President

Rod Chisessi has over 25 years of commercial real estate experience, including acquisition, development, redevelopment, entitlement, design, project management and leasing. Mr. Chisessi currently is a Vice President with Samuels & Company, Inc. Prior to joining the firm, he was most recently a Vice President and Managing Director of Development for the Western States for Developers Diversified Realty (DDR), a publicly-traded REIT and fully integrated real estate company that develops, leases and manages the third largest nationwide portfolio of shopping centers and mixed-use properties.

Prior to joining DDR, Mr. Chisessi held senior management and director positions with prominent national and regional real estate development and investment companies including Westfield Corporation, Inc., the Mills Corporation and Hopkins Real Estate Group.

In addition to his corporate experience, Mr. Chisessi has also provided advisory and development and leasing services as a principal of his own consulting and brokerage firm, Rod Chisessi & Associates. He has extensive knowledge of retail tenant requirements having previously represented Mervyn’s Department Stores, the General Mills Specialty Retail Division and Thrifty-Payless (predecessor to Rite-Aid Drug Stores). He has also provided site location, acquisition, disposition and expansion planning services to a variety of other retail and restaurant clients as a consultant and broker.

In 1978, Mr. Chisessi earned his B.S. with honors in Business Administration/Real Estate from San Diego State University and is a licensed Real Estate Broker for the State of California. He is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and the Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives. He has been a featured speaker on various shopping center and community development industry panels.