Mr. Robert D. Resnick is an attorney and has been an entrepreneur from an early age. He has built and led several successful business enterprises, ranging from management consulting to commercial real estate investment. Mr. Resnick has also been a public officeholder, an educator, and chaired several public commissions and major community boards.
Having attended Lund University as a young foreign exchange student from U.C. Berkeley in 1971, he has maintained a close relationship with the University since. He chaired the Lund University Foundation’s campaign to raise public awareness and the funding to launch and complete Lund University’s well known Ravensbrück Archive Project. This project undertook the translation, indexing, and digitizing, for public viewing, of one of the most important and long lost archives from the Holocaust. The archive was created at Lund University in 1945, and the project shed new light on the treatment of women and children held in captivity at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. Mr. Resnick was awarded an honorary doctorate by Lund University for his leadership of this program. He also has guest lectured in the University’s Sten K Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship of the University’s School of Economics and Management, as well as the Psychology Department.
Mr. Resnick has served as President of the Beverly Hills Civil Service Commission, Chairman of Santa Monica’s Downtown Revitalization Commission, President of the Redondo Pier Association, a Member of the California Senate Select Committee on Small Business Enterprises’ Citizens Advisory Commission, and recently served as President of Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation of the Pacific Palisades, the largest Jewish reconstructionist congregation in the world.
In his personal time, he performs blues and rock and roll guitar professionally, and is a great admirer and collector of fine art. He has also lectured at UCLA, USC, California State University Los Angeles, and speaks fluent Swedish, Norwegian and Spanish. He loves travelling the world together with his family.