Bill Benjamin is a Partner and Co-Head of the Real Estate Group at Ares, a leading alternative asset manager with more than $500 billion of assets under management. He has led the Real Estate Group since 2016.  Mr. Benjamin also serves as a Director and Chairman of both the Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation Board of Directors and the Ares Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust. He joined Ares in July 2013  when it acquired AREA Property Partners, where he was a Senior Partner from 1995 to 2013. He joined AREA Property Partners in 1995 from Bankers Trust Corp, where he was a Vice President from 1986 to 1995.

Mr. Benjamin is a Chair of Impetus, a UK based charity focused on improving access to education and employment for disadvantaged youth, Chair of the London School of Jewish Studies and a Trustee of the Shalom Hartman Institute. He is the past Chair of the United Jewish Israel Appeal of the United Kingdom and the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues.  He is also  a former Trustee of the Jewish Leadership Council, the Community Security Trust and Institute for Jewish Policy and Research. 

He graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts degree in social studies and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School.