Ridaa has been focused on residential real estate development, investment and management since 2013. He is the Co-Founder of The Bedrock Group, LLC which owns, operates and manages eighteen manufactured housing communities across four states with over twelve hundred and fifty homes. He is the Founder of Breakform Realty Ventures, which owns, operates and manages numerous single family and multi-family development projects across Southern California. Ridaa was a Principal and Managing Director at Christina Development Corp. a real estate development company before starting his own firm. Prior to that he held Vice President positions at both HSBC Bank and Barclays Capital where he was in charge of the firms’ Indian Equity Investments and was a member of the Asia Advisory Committee. He was a co-founder of Veda Asset Management, LLC, an alternative investment management firm. Prior to starting Veda Asset Management, Ridaa was an Associate Director and Product Manager at Bear Stearns in the Structured Equity Products division, where he built their Market Access Product division for South & South East Asia, a $3 billion portfolio of assets in the region. Ridaa is a John C. Whitehead Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, a member of the Harrow Association, Urban Land Institute, Building Industry Association of Southern California and the Young Entrepreneurs Council. He currently serves on the Board of the Kathi Koll Foundation and Urban Golf Performance. Ridaa earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics as a Charles June Patrick Scholar from Bard College in New York