Steven J. Kessler has served as a director of ACRES Commercial Realty since November 2009 and served as its Chairman from November 2009 until September 2016. He is a founding co-managing member of RSR SC LLC and a member of several affiliated entities operating under the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. He served as the Company's Senior Vice President-Finance (2005-2009) and earlier as its Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer (2005). Mr. Kessler was Executive Vice President of Resource America, Inc. from 2005 to 2016 and its Chief Financial Officer from 1997 to 2009. He previously held senior finance roles at Kravco Company and Strouse Greenberg & Co. and was a partner at Touche Ross & Co. (now Deloitte & Touche LLP). He serves on the Company's Audit, Compensation and Investment Committees.