Mark Shane Ehrenreich

Background

Mark Shane Ehrenreich was born on October 12, 1954, in Los Angeles, California. He was the son of Joseph Willard Ehrenreich (1920–1994) and Isabel Resler Ehrenreich (1922–2008), and his brother, Edward Dana Ehrenreich, was born in 1950.

Los Angeles was a rapidly expanding metropolis in the decades after the Second World War, when housing construction and suburban growth reshaped the region. The property market that grew alongside this expansion became the professional field in which Ehrenreich later worked as an accountant and financial specialist.

Education

Ehrenreich attended the University of California at Los Angeles from 1971 to 1973. UCLA traces its origins to the Southern Branch of the University of California, established in Los Angeles in 1919, and it later developed into one of the state's largest public research universities.

He received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975. Founded in 1868, Berkeley is the oldest campus of the University of California system and had a long tradition of broad undergraduate and graduate instruction.

He completed a Master of Business Administration at the University of Southern California in 1981. USC was founded in 1880 as a private university in Los Angeles, and its business programs gave the degree a practical focus on management and finance, a combination that matched the accounting and real estate work he later pursued.

Career

Ehrenreich's documented career began in banking. From 1976 to 1979 he was assistant branch manager of California Federal Savings in San Francisco. Savings and loan associations of that period were thrift institutions that financed much of the country's home mortgage lending, so the position placed him within the consumer and residential lending business of the era.

From 1981 to 1983 he worked as a management consultant for Kenneth Leventhal & Company, a Los Angeles certified public accounting firm founded in 1949 by Kenneth Leventhal and his wife, Elaine. The firm concentrated on real estate accounting and became one of the leading CPA practices in that field before merging with Ernst & Young in 1995.

From 1983 to 1989 he was managing director of George Smith/Grubb & Ellis Finance in Los Angeles. Grubb & Ellis was founded in 1958 by two real estate brokers in northern California and grew into one of the largest commercial real estate brokerages in the United States, a field in which property finance and brokerage were closely linked.

From 1989 to 1991 he was vice president of Sonnenblick-Goldman Company in Los Angeles. The firm was a real estate investment banking business based in New York City, and its California operation, Sonnenblick-Goldman Corporation of California, was active in commercial property financing on the West Coast during the 1980s.

From 1988 he also taught advanced real estate finance in the University of California at Los Angeles Extension, the university's continuing education division, which offers courses to adults and working professionals.

Membership

Ehrenreich was a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the national professional body for certified public accountants in the United States, whose origins date to 1887. He was also a member of the California Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the state professional organization for CPAs practicing in California.

He was an associate member of the Urban Land Institute, a research and education organization for land use and real estate development founded in 1936. His memberships included the Del Rey Yacht Club, a yacht club that fits his documented interest in sailing, and the President's Club of Vista del Mar Home for Children, a membership group connected with a children's home.

He served as a director of the Homes for Life Foundation. The foundation was formed as a housing corporation in 1986 and as a 501(c)(3) organization in 1987 by business and mental health professionals who were relatives and friends of people with mental disabilities, and it develops permanent service-enriched housing for mentally ill adults.

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants , United States

• California Institute of Certified Public Accountants , United States

• Associate

  Urban Land Institute , United States

• Del Rey Yacht Club , United States

• President Club of Vista del Mar Home for Children , United States

• Director

  Homes for Life Foundation , United States

Interests

• Sailing, skiing, and chess.

Connections

Ehrenreich married Sari Newmann on September 13, 1987. The couple had one child, Alden Ehrenreich, who became an actor.

His parents were Joseph Willard Ehrenreich and Isabel Resler Ehrenreich, and his brother was Edward Dana Ehrenreich. Ehrenreich died on December 27, 1997, in Los Angeles County, California, at the age of 43. Press accounts reported that he had gone to collect his brother from a halfway house and was stabbed by him; Ehrenreich drove to a gas station to call for help, and he died in hospital. He was buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles.

Father:

Joseph Willard Ehrenreich

Born 1920; died 1994.

Mother:

Isabel (Resler) Ehrenreich

Born 1922; died 2008.

Spouse:

Sari Newmann

Married Ehrenreich on September 13, 1987.

Brother:

Edward Dana Ehrenreich

Born 1950; died 2005. Press accounts of the 1997 attack that fatally wounded Mark Shane Ehrenreich identified him as the attacker.

Son:

Alden Ehrenreich

Actor.

References

• Find a Grave Memorial page recording Ehrenreich's birth and death dates, his burial place at Mount Sinai Memorial Park, and his family connections.