Eric Sussman
Adjunct Professor, Accounting & Real Estate, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Since 1995, Eric has been a faculty member in accounting and real estate at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he has been voted Teacher of the Year fifteen times by Anderson’s MBA students, has been awarded the Citibank Teaching Award (1998) and the Neidorf Decade Teaching Award (2008), both voted upon by a committee of faculty members, and received the UCLA-wide Distinguished Teaching Award in 2015. He has also received recognition by Bloomberg-Business Week as one of the Top Ten Most Popular Business School Professors in the country, and recognition as one of the most influential business school faculty alive today. He has taught courses at UC Berkeley, George Washington University, and the Helsinki School of Economics, and created a series of 12 lectures on accounting and finance for the Great Courses (the Teaching Company).
He created Insight FSA, an analytical software tool to automatically and critically measure, evaluate, and report upon the financial accounting and corporate reporting risk for public companies via Edgar On-line. In addition, he has advised numerous Full-time and Fully Employed MBA field study teams and consulted for large and small firms, nationally and globally, and is a frequent lecturer on varied financial, accounting, and corporate reporting topics. He has led student travel groups to Brazil, China, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Abu Dhabi.
He has served as an expert witness and consultant for commercial litigation, involving matters of corporate financial reporting and disclosure, audit effectiveness, valuation, real estate due diligence and related practices, and overall damage analyses. Outside of campus, Mr. Sussman is President of Amber Capital, Inc. and Clarion Management, Inc., as well as Managing Partner of Fountain Management, LLC and Clear Capital, LLC, which have acquired, rehabilitated, developed, and managed over five thousand multifamily units and two million square feet of residential and commercial real estate in the past 20 years. The firms’ portfolio presently consists of industrial, multi-family residential, single-family residential, and retail properties (approximately 4,300 residential units in the Southwest, Mountain West, and Sunbelt regions of the U.S.) and nearly 500,000 square feet of commercial space).
He is Chair of the Audit Committee (formerly overall Chair from 2012-2018) of the Board of Trustees of Causeway Capital’s group of funds (International Value, Emerging Markets, Global Value, Global Absolute Return Funds, and International Small Cap) which collectively have over $8.5 billion in assets, sits on the Board of Directors of Pacific Charter School Development, Inc. and UCLA Hillel, and was former Chair of the Presidio Fund and former Audit Committee Chair of Atlantic Inertial Systems, Inc., a producer and manufacturer of electromagnetic sensors. He received his MBA from Stanford, with honors, in 1993, after graduating Summa cum Laude from UCLA in 1987. He is a licensed CPA in the State of California.
