David E. Shiffrin

David Shiffrin is a former real estate attorney with over 30 years of experience in the commercial real estate field. He was a partner with the law firm of Linowes and Blocher until 1991 when he joined the Resolution Trust Corporation where he was Senior Counsel for Real Estate. He also served in that capacity at the FDIC when the RTC completed its work. After leaving the FDIC, Mr. Shiffrin was a Special Advisor to the FCC Auctions Division, assisting the Commission with its auction program of wireless telecommunications spectrum.

Mr. Shiffrin served from 1999-2000 as the Interim Executive Director of CulturalDC (fka Cultural Development Corporation), a private nonprofit organization in Washington, DC, that engages in real estate development for the arts.

Mr. Shiffrin serves on the Boards of several nonprofit associations, including Arena Stage, the Greater Washington Community Foundation, and CulturalDC. He co-chaired the capital campaign for the Source Theater, a project of CulturalDC. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of WETA, Facilitating Leadership in Youth (FLY), and the Clark University Board of Visitors, and served for many years at The Maret School as a senior advisor to the Scholarship Auction. Mr. Shiffrin served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Arena Stage from 2010 until 2013 and as President of the Board from 2013 until 2016.