Ali Shekarchian is an established presence in the Beverly Hills entrepreneurial community with a track record in real estate investment extending more than three decades. Serving as Southern California Investors (SCI) president, Ali Shekarchian oversaw investments across the greater Los Angeles region. Among his areas of specialized insight are mergers and acquisitions and transactional financing pathways.

Mr. Shekarchian’s firm continues to excel in identifying market opportunities with extremely short lead times and acquiring distressed real estate assets through trustee sale auctions. A proprietary set of systems is in place that enables the rapid identification and underwriting of properties offered at a significant discount to their future value. At the same time, the firm focuses exclusively on neighborhoods in which comprehensive market knowledge exists.

In addition to his property investment activities Mr. Shekarchian has, since 2009, built a presence as one of the cannabis space’s leading individual private investors. Beverly Hills entrepreneur Ali Shekarchian holds a business administration degree from Pepperdine University, and maintains an active role in the local community supporting sports such as basketball.