David J. LaRue – Forest City Enterprises, Inc

David J. LaRue – Forest City Enterprises, Inc
David J. LaRue is the president and chief executive officer of Forest City Enterprises, Inc. He also serves on the board of directors.

He most recently served as Forest City’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, with companywide responsibility for all real estate operations. He was also responsible for fostering Forest City’s strategic growth initiatives.

LaRue joined Forest City in 1986 as a financial analyst and advanced through a series of positions of increasing responsibility in the Company’s Commercial Group, including financial manager of the Tower City Center mixed-use property in Cleveland, vice president and later executive vice president of real estate operations, and president and COO of the Commercial Group. Prior to joining Forest City, LaRue was an internal auditor and financial analyst with The Sherwin-Williams Company.

LaRue is the 2013-2014 chairman of ICSC; a member of the 2013 NAREIT board of governors; a trustee, member of the executive committee, chair of the capital committee and board of directors of the Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts; a trustee and member of the Finance Committee of the Lawrence School. He served on the board of directors for CubeSmart, a public storage company, from 2004-2013.

LaRue received a bachelor’s degree in business/accounting from Wittenberg University.