Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Before co-founding the DSF Group in 2000, Arthur was senior partner and head of both real estate investment banking and real estate principal investments at Lazard Freres, the global investment house. Arthur also served as the Chief Executive Officer of Lazard’s five real estate funds. Prior to that, he founded and served as the senior partner of the real estate investment banking group at Drexell Burnham Lambert.
Before moving to Wall Street, Arthur was Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae, creating its mortgage-backed securities program. He also served as President and CEO of the Berkshire Group, a national real estate and financial services firm.
Earlier in his career, Arthur was a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Executive Director of the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies.
Arthur holds a B.A. from Brown University, an M.A. from Trinity College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.