Citizenship United States Occupation Managing Member, CEO | Name Kyle Kazan | |
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Born March 11, 1967 (age 57) ( 1967-03-11 ) Inglewood, California Education B.A. University of Southern California Known for Beach Front Property Management, Inc. Residence Rolling Hills Estates, California, United States | ||
Kyle Kazan (born March 11, 1967) is the CEO of Beach Front Property Management, Inc. and co-founder and managing member of Beach Front Properties, LLC. Kazan has also served as a special education teacher at LAUSD and a police officer at the Torrance Police Department.
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Early life and education
Kazan was born in 1967 in Inglewood, California to Richard and Anne Kazan. He was raised in the Palos Verdes peninsula and attended Palos Verdes High School from 1981-1985. Kazan then attended University of Southern California where he received his BA in history in 1990. While at USC, Kazan was recruited to play basketball from 1987-1990 as both a point guard and shooting guard by future Hall of Fame coach George Raveling.
Career
After graduating from USC in 1990, Kazan became a special education teacher at LAUSD in 1991. Four years later, Kazan served in the patrol division of the Torrance Police Department with collateral assignments and training in gang enforcement and drugs recognition and eradication until 1999. Throughout his tenure, he led his department in felony arrests twice in two consecutive 6-month periods, and testified as a court certified expert in drug sales.
Kazan began his real estate investment career with wife Diane Kazan in the late 1990s. In 1997, Kazan and James B. Rosenwald co-founded Beach Front Properties, LLC., a real estate investment company based in southern California. Together their portfolio spans residential and commercial properties across the U.S., China and Germany with a focus on distressed properties, earning Kazan a reputation as a "vulture investor" and expert in turning rundown properties into stable assets. In 1999, Kazan left the police department and founded Beach Front Property Management, Inc., a third party property management company headquartered in Long Beach, CA.
In addition to real estate investing, Kazan has also been involved in the management of venture capital. With Steve Persky from Dalton Investments, Kazan has co-managed the Dalton Distressed Mortgage Fund since 1997. Kazan also has served as Director of the Dalton High Yield Mortgage Fund since 2012 as well as Kings Bay Investment Company, Ltd since 2013.
In 2016, Kazan co-founded AP Investment Fund, one of the nation's first funds to provide real estate acquisition and private debt servicing to cannabis related ventures. Bud and Bloom dispensary, one of AP Investment Fund's holdings, was Orange County’s 11th licensed medical marijuana dispensary, and it opened in November 2016.
Personal life
Since 2010, Kazan has appeared at several public speeches organized by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition(LEAP) as an outspoken advocate both in favor of the legalization of marijuana and against the war on drugs. He has also made some television appearances to oppose the war on drugs including an interview conducted by CNN.
Kazan also currently presides at the Redondo Beach chapter Cancer Support Community as President of the Board of Directors.