CIM Group Names New Managing Director, Head of Private Wealth

Barry Schanker

CIM Group has appointed Barry Schanker as managing director, head of private wealth to lead the company’s dedicated private wealth team. Schanker will manage day-to-day operations of the team and oversee business development initiatives to increase awareness of CIM Group’s investment opportunities across its real estate, infrastructure, and credit platforms.

“We are excited to welcome Barry Schanker, an exceptionally well-respected industry veteran, to lead the private wealth team,” said Emily Vande Krol, principal, who oversees the global client group. “He is an experienced leader with deep industry knowledge, longstanding partnerships, and a proven track record in structuring institutional opportunities into innovative solutions for private wealth clients.”

CIM Group is a community-focused real estate and infrastructure owner, operator, lender and developer. Since 1994, it has delivered more than $60 billion of essential real estate and infrastructure projects.

Schanker brings over 30 years of investment experience across real estate, infrastructure, private equity, private credit, and hedge funds. Most recently, he was managing director, head of wealth solutions and client portfolio management at FS Investments, where he led the growth of the private wealth investments and client support programs from 2021 to 2025.

Prior to that, he was managing director, head of U.S. wealth at Man Group from 2016 to 2021, overseeing distribution and national accounts for all product suites while leading the company’s expansion into the high-net-worth private investor market. Schanker also held similar positions at Skybridge Capital, Citigroup Alternative Investments, and Salomon Smith Barney.

“CIM Group is a leading investor with institutional-quality products tailored for private wealth channels. I look forward to leveraging my alternative investment experience to further broaden our reach, delivering private wealth investors and advisers with a diverse range of customized solutions in real estate, infrastructure, and credit,” said Schanker.

In other activity, CIM Real Assets & Credit Fund – a continuously offered closed-end interval fund sponsored by CIM Group – acquired District La Brea last December. The asset is a collection of retail buildings and commercial space located along La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles.

With management of real assets from due diligence to operations through disposition, CIM Group said it seeks to create value in projects and positively impact the lives of people in communities across the Americas.

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