Fred C. Sands

Mr. Fred C.
Sands is Co-Founder & Chairman at Vintage Fund Management LLC.
Prior to co-founding the firm in 2000, he has been active for the last twenty years acquiring underperforming middle market companies in a variety of industries and successfully turning them around.
He has achieved a 37% annual internal rate of return on these investments with a holding period of up to ten years and, more importantly, achieved an 8.6x cash-on-cash return.
He was named one of the top 25 CEOs of the decade by California Business Magazine.
For decades, Mr. Sands was the Chairman and CEO of the second largest real estate and financial services company in California, including wholly-owned and operated entities in the areas of title insurance, home warranty, mortgage banking and escrow, with 3,000 agents and 1,000 salaried people employed in 67 offices (including franchised operations) generating $9.4 billion in volume per year.
The company, excluding the franchised operations, was ultimately merged into Coldwell Banker.
He was also Chairman of Sands Commercial, which was one of the top ten commercial brokerages in Los Angeles.
In 1997, he merged this company into the Charles Dunn Company.
Mr. Sands was appointed by President George W.
Bush to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts and serves on its finance committee, and liaison to The Kennedy Center.
In addition, he was appointed to the California Arts Council by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He is a founder and currently serves as a Trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art, and is also a member of its investment committee.
He is on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Opera, serving on its executive committee, as well as its investment committee.
He is also on the Board of Chrysalis, a charity that rehabilitates homeless people.
He attended UCLA.