Founder & CEO

With over 23 years of real estate and financial consulting experience, Ring’s expertise includes providing strategic leadership for all aspects of the investment process, including sourcing new projects, business plan development, optimizing capital structures and actively overseeing each project’s execution phase from soup to nuts.

Previously, Ring was chief operating officer at Kennedy Wilson Multifamily Management Group, where he was responsible for the acquisition and operation of over 13,000 apartment units. At the time of his departure, roughly half of those acquisitions had been sold for a project level profit of over $100 million and had achieved a 1.80 multiple on equity, a 28.5 percent IRR, and an ROI of 55.4 percent. Ring also forged key partnerships with institutional investors, such as The Dubai Investment Group, General Electric, Mitsubishi Corporation, General Motors, AIG, RREEF and Wachovia Securities, among others.

In addition to his background as a real estate professional, Ring is an Emeritus member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA). He wrote for a variety of television comedies for NBC, UPN, Saban Entertainment, VH1 and HBO, where he earned a Cable ACE nomination for his work on “The Larry Sanders Show.”

A graduate of U.C. Berkeley in 1988, Ring went on to earn his MFA from New York University in 1992 and his MBA from UCLA Anderson in 2003. Ring served on the Executive Committee of the Anderson School’s Alumni Association and currently serves on The Board of Governors at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is also a member of Mensa.

Chief Financial Officer

Cyrus Blourtchi brings 26 years of financial accounting and senior management experience to the company, including 19 years in the multifamily industry. Prior to joining New Standard Equities, Cyrus served as Director of Accounting/Controller with Kennedy Wilson Multifamily for seven years.  Prior to that, Cyrus held accounting positions at Welk Real Estate and RCMI in Southern California.

Mr. Blourtchi is responsible for maintaining all aspects of the accounting records for New Standard Equities' assets and management assignments.  He is highly trained in GAAP accounting procedures and professional protocols, including a strict adherence to Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory compliance standards for public investors.​  Cyrus also provided financial accounting services for organizations outside the real estate sector, including spending two years as a finance officer for the United Nations. ​

Vice President of Operations

Pauline Imamura has served NSE since its inception, following 15 years of site and multi-site management for Fore Properties, Kennedy Wilson Multifamily, and FPI Management.  She has supervised over $3,000,000 in unit-level property improvements, spearheaded successful marketing and repositioning programs in properties throughout California, and produced same-store income growth of above 6% on stabilized assets, and nearly 20% on value-add repositioning projects.

At New Standard Equities, Ms. Imamura is responsible for all site-level operations, including enforcing standard operating procedures, preparing week and monthly operational reports, conducting quarterly asset inspections and conducting regular safety training seminars to ensure properties are compliant with company policies, Fair Housing Standards and OSHA regulations.​

Director of Acquisitions & Asset Management

Todd Weiss joined New Standard Equities in 2013 and is primarily responsible for NSE's acquisitions, asset management and construction management activities. In addition, he is involved with sourcing new debt and equity for all of NSE’s acquisitions. 

Prior to joining New Standard Equities, Todd was an independent commodities trader at The Chicago Board of Trade where he specialized in agricultural commodities. Todd received his BA from The University of Arizona’s College of Agriculture in 2000.  Todd co-chaired the 2007 Maccabi USA golf team to successful gold medal victories in the youth, open and senior divisions.