Gary Ickowicz has served as a director of ACRES Commercial Realty since February 2007. He has been Managing Partner of IR Capital LLC, a real estate company that owns and operates assets in the New York metropolitan area, since 2008. He was a Managing Principal of Lazard Freres Real Estate Investors from 2001 to 2011 and a director of Lazard Freres' real estate investment banking unit from 1989 through 2001. He was a director of Commonwealth Atlantic Properties, Inc., a privately held REIT (2001-2011), and previously served as a director of Kimsouth, Inc., a joint venture with Kimco Realty Corporation (NYSE: KIM). He brings broad real estate and real estate finance experience as a principal in the real estate operations of an international investment bank.