Arnon Adar
President and Chief Executive Officer

Arnon Adar has been extensively involved in real estate and finance since 1976, originating more than $3 billion in transactions, and organizing several high-tech venture capital groups, bringing some to IPO status. Mr. Adar established CNA Enterprises as a real estate investment firm with a primary focus on grocery-anchored shopping centers across the United States. As President and CEO, he oversees the company’s ongoing operations, as well as its long-term vision. This vision includes the development and implementation of investment strategies which define the structure and organization of the company’s corporate culture. 

Mr. Adar was born in Israel and served for three years with the Diplomatic Corps as the Economic Attaché for the Eleven Western States. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

For more than forty years, Mr. Adar has been an active leader in the Los Angeles community,  dedicating his philanthropic involvement to the arts, education, and medicine. Mr. Adar is: a member of the National and International Boards of the American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Chairman of the West Coast; a member of the board of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts; a member of the Executive Cabinet Committee of the Board of Governors for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; a member of the Board of the American Friends of Sheba Medical Center Tel Hashomer; and a member of the board of UCLA’s Ziman Center for Real Estate. He has also served on the Executive Board of the Los Angeles Opera, the International Board of Trustees of the Israel Air Force Foundation, the Board of Trustees for Tel Aviv University, the Colburn Music Academy Deans' Council, the Board of Stephen Wise Temple and the Board of Harvard-Westlake School, and is active with the American Friends of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

In 1993, the Adar family established a center for pediatric bone marrow transplant at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv. In 2008, Mr. and Mrs. Adar founded The Adar Family and Friends Research Institute for Eye Disease at Brandeis University to develop more advanced treatment protocols for a variety of eye diseases.

Despite Mr. Adar’s visual impairment, he enjoys participating in active sports including hiking, skiing, and mountain climbing. He has served as President and as an instructor at the non-profit Colorado Ski School for the Blind in Vail, Colorado.

Awards and Recognition:

2002 Nominated to the post of Commissioner by California Governor Gray Davis 2004 Received the Distinguished University Fellow award from Brandeis University 2016 Inaugural recipient of the Friends of Sheba’s Lifetime Achievement Award