David Singelyn
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David Singelyn Chief Executive Officer/Trustee B.S., Accounting, 1984 |
David Singelyn is the initial chief executive officer and a trustee of American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE: AMH). He built the company from personally acquiring the company’s original three properties in 2011 to a company today that owns more than 60,000 properties in 22 states.
For 35 years, Singelyn has held senior positions in private and publicly traded real estate companies. Prior to AMH, from 2005 to 2012, Singelyn was CEO and a director of American Commercial Equities (ACE), a private real estate company that owns and manages a portfolio of retail and office properties in California and Hawaii. He built ACE’s management team and operational platform.
From 2003 to 2012, Singelyn was president and a director of Public Storage in Canada (PSC). The company was a publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange until Singelyn facilitated a transaction to take it private in 2010. Singelyn remains a director of both ACE and PSC. From 1989 to 2003, Singelyn held various senior finance roles at Public Storage in the United States.
Singelyn started his career at Arthur Young & Company (now a part of Ernst & Young LLP) and thereafter served as controller of Winchell’s Donut House.
He earned bachelor degrees in accounting and computer information systems from Cal Poly Pomona. He is the sponsor of the College of Business Administration’s Singelyn Graduate School of Business, the Singelyn Center for Innovative Analytics and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council. He is also a trustee of non-profit entities organized for the purpose of medical research and to facilitate the development of housing and other solutions for low income families and individuals.