During the past thirty years Richard “Skip” Bronson, CEO of The Bronson Companies, LLC, located in Beverly Hills, CA has been involved in the development of more than 100 shopping centers and office buildings throughout the nation. He served with Steve Wynn as one of two inside directors of Mirage Resorts and was President of New City Development, an affiliate of Mirage Resorts, where he oversaw many of the company‘s new business initiatives and activities outside Nevada.

Mr. Bronson‘s business expertise includes creating joint ventures between his company and some of the nation’s largest developers including Donald Trump of The Trump Organization and Herb & Mel Simon of Simon Property Group. Mr. Bronson has engineered deals from New York to Beijing and developed a wide range of properties from state of the art shopping malls to luxurious resort-casinos.

He spearheaded the development of Renaissance Point in Atlantic City, NJ, which required the conversion of a former landfill in the city‘s Marina District. Today, the area is a 150-acre tract of pristine land upon which Boyd Gaming and MGM/Mirage have opened The Borgata, a $1.2 billion resort hotel. Significant additional development is planned for Renaissance Point.:

Among Mr. Bronson‘s East Coast real estate projects is CityPlace, the largest mixed-use office tower in Connecticut. He was a co-developer on this landmark project in downtown Hartford, designed to revitalize an area that was lacking in high-quality office and retail space. At 1.2 million square feet and 34 stories, CityPlace remains the largest and tallest office building in the state of Connecticut.

Throughout his career, Mr. Bronson‘s professional and business activities have been complemented by community and civic involvement. Currently he is the Chairman of the Board of the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles. Mr. Bronson has served on the Boards of Trustees of numerous other organizations including the Forman School in Litchfield, Connecticut and Mt. Sinai Hospital in Hartford. He also served on the Board and as President of both the Tumble Brook Country Club and The Hartford Club, one of the oldest city clubs in America dating back to 1873. Additionally, Mr. Bronson served as Vice President of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), an association representing 75,000 industry professionals in more than 80 countries. He has spoken throughout the United States on real estate development strategies and is a member of the Western Real Estate Business Editorial board.

Mr. Bronson is the founder and president of Native American Empowerment, LLC. NAE is a private company dedicated to monitoring, advocating and pursuing Native American gaming opportunities and tribal economic advancement. The company is a partner in Casino San Pablo located in the East Bay, 20 minutes from San Francisco.

He was a founding partner of Monitor Productions, a joint venture with Main Events, the successful sports promotion company that developed the early careers of some of the country's most well-known boxers, including all the boxing gold-medal winners at the 1984 Olympics: Mark Breland, Pernell Whitaker, Meldrick Taylor and former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield. This group went on to be the most successful stable of professional boxers in the history of the sport. Main Events/Monitor Productions promoted the 1991 ”Battle of the Ages,“ featuring Evander Holyfield and George Forman, which grossed over $80 million worldwide and, at the time, set a pay-per-view record.

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