Ronald Dickerman is President and Founder of Madison International Realty (“Madison”), a leading liquidity provider to real estate investors worldwide with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Singapore, South Korea, and Frankfurt. Madison provides equity capital for real estate owners and investors seeking to monetize embedded equity, replace capital partners seeking an exit, or to recapitalize balance sheets. The firm provides equity for recapitalizations, partner buyouts, and capital infusions and acquires joint venture, limited partner, and co-investment interests as principals. In addition, Madison provides strategic growth capital to established, middle-market real estate operating platforms, seeking to accelerate their growth and investment programs. Mr. Dickerman’s primary responsibilities include investment strategy, capital formation, and risk management. Since its founding in 2002, Madison has raised more than $8 billion in capital commitments for investment in commercial real estate in the US, UK, and Europe. Mr. Dickerman has over 35 years of experience focused on the analysis, acquisition, financing, management, and disposition of income-producing assets such as real estate, mortgage products, healthcare properties, leased equipment, media properties, oil & gas, as well as other specialty assets.
Prior to founding Madison in 2002, Mr. Dickerman was President and Founder of First Equity Realty, LLC, a real estate investment firm specializing in the acquisition of underperforming real estate assets from financial institutions. During the period from 1987 to 1991, Mr. Dickerman was an investment banker in the Real Estate / Partnership Finance Group at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., Inc., where he was responsible for the origination, analysis, structuring, acquisition, asset management, disposition, and marketing of real estate and other limited partnerships.
Mr. Dickerman served as a former member of the board of directors of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) and is an active member of the European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV) and the Zell Lurie Institute. Mr. Dickerman is also a frequent speaker on the topic of secondary investments and liquidity at real estate conferences throughout the world. Mr. Dickerman earned an MBA degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and a BA degree from Tufts University.