CityView's Cisneros, Wagman and Martin

Soon after leaving his post as Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Clinton Administration, Henry Cisneros launched his own institutional investment firm. Working on urban real estate, in-city housing and metropolitan infrastructure, the Los Angeles-based company has focused on providing for-sale housing to working Americans and has generated more than $2 billion in urban investment in 45 communities across the US.

Now, nine years since its inception, Cisneros has decided to broaden the company’s reach, adding two more real estate veterans to its leadership. As vice chairmen and co-owners, J. David Martin and Lee H. Wagman will help expand the investment management firm’s focus to include multifamily housing, commercial properties and mixed-use projects. (Read the full story.)

The duo brings decades of experience and resources to CityView. Martin was the founder and chairman of the Martin Group, a 25-year-old real estate development company with a portfolio in excess of $3 billion. He has worked on the entire spectrum of property types, from office and industrial projects to retail, hotels and apartments. Ffrom 1995 to 2000, Martin served as director and CEO of Burnham Pacific Properties Inc. a San Diego-based REIT. And most recently, he was CEO of YPO-WPO, a global network of CEOs with over 16,000 members in 100 countries, and served as chairman of the international board of the organization from 2001 to 2002.