The Wallis Welcomes New Board Member Arnon Adar

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces that Arnon Adar, Founder, President and CEO of CNA Enterprises has joined its Board of Directors.

Tania Camargo, Managing Director of The Wallis, said "Arnon Adar brings a solid history of serving his communities -- whether as CEO of CNA Enterprises and their bringing life to retail across the country, education with Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, or the arts with the Los Angeles Opera, The Music Center and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. We are pleased to welcome him to The Wallis Board."

Adar established CNA Enterprises as a real estate investment and advisory firm with a primary focus on direct equity investments of grocery-anchored shopping centers and regional power centers across the United States. He has been extensively involved in real estate and finance since 1976, originating more than $3 billion in transactions, and organizing several high-tech venture capital groups, bringing some to IPO status.

Adar is a member of the United Jewish Fund/Real Estate & Construction Division; was nominated to the post of Commissioner for the California Citizens Compensation Commission by Governor Gray Davis; and was an original founder of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. In 2004, he received the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Distinguished University Fellow award from Brandeis.

Adar is currently a member of the International Board of Trustees of Tel Aviv University, the Founders Society of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Executive Cabinet Committee of the Board of Governors of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Board of Governors of Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv. He is passionate about the arts and has served on the Executive Board of Directors for the Los Angeles Opera, The Founders for the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, and the West Coast Council of the American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2008, Mr. Adar and his family founded The Adar Family and Friends Research Institute for Eye Disease at Brandeis University. Working in conjunction with the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA and the Goldschlager Eye Institute at Sheba Medical Center in Israel, these researchers strive to develop more advanced treatment protocols for a variety of eye diseases.

Located in the heart of Beverly Hills, California, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts ("The Wallis") brings audiences world-class theater, dance and music, performed by many of the world's most talented and sought-after artists. With eclectic programming that mirrors the diverse landscape of Los Angeles, and its notability as the entertainment capital of the world, The Wallis offers original and revered works from across the U.S. and around the globe. The mission of The Wallis is to be a vital cultural hub that uses unique arts events and education programming to entertain, enlighten and inspire children and adults in our community and across the nation. Nominated for 12 Ovation Awards, four L.A. Drama Critic's Circle Awards and the recipient of five architectural awards since opening in 2013, this fall marks The Wallis' third season, which includes its prestigious Arts & Ideas series, conversations with guests from the realms of culture, literature and politics. Housed in a breathtaking 70,000-square-foot venue designed by Zoltan E. Pali, FAIA of Studio Pali Fekete architects, The Wallis celebrates the classic and the modern. The building features the restored, original 1933 Beverly Hills Post Office (on the National Register of Historic Places) that serves as the theater's dramatic yet welcoming lobby, and houses the 150-seat Lovelace Studio Theater, GRoW at The Wallis: A Space for Arts Education (a gift of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten and Family and the Annenberg Foundation) and the contemporary 500-seat, state-of-the-art Bram Goldsmith Theater. Together, these structures embrace the city's history and its future, creating a performing arts destination for L.A.-area visitors and residents alike. For more information, visit www.thewallis.org.

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