Company: RSI
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001793659-25-000098
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Company: Rush Street Interactive, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form: DEF 14A
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 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Mr. Schwartz’s qualifications to serve on the Board include his extensive experience as Chief Executive Officer (and formerly President) of the Company, and his extensive and varied experience throughout his career in the casino and gaming industries.

Continuing Class III Directors to Serve Until the 2026 Annual Meeting

Neil Bluhm , 87, has been our Executive Chairman since April 9, 2021 and Chairman of the Board since December 2020. Mr. Bluhm is a leading business executive having built and led multiple successful companies in the areas of real estate development, gaming, and private equity. Mr. Bluhm co-founded JMB Realty Corp. (“JMB”) and has served as the President of JMB since 1968. JMB became one of the largest property owners and developers in the United States with successful developments that include urban shopping centers and malls, five-star hotels, commercial office towers, and residential projects. Mr. Bluhm and JMB set the standard for superior mixed-use developments that combine retail, dining, hotel, office and residential. Marquee projects included Century City in Los Angeles and 900 North Michigan in Chicago, featuring the prestigious Four Seasons hotel, among innumerable other high-profile ventures. In 1994, Mr. Bluhm co-founded Walton Street Capital, a real estate private equity firm, where he served as a Principal from 1995 through August 2021. In 2009, Mr. Bluhm co-founded Rush Street Gaming, LLC (“RSG”), one of the fastest growing companies in the gaming industry. Mr. Bluhm has served as the Managing Member of RSG since 2009. RSG has developed seven regional destination casinos, including five of which it continues to operate in downtown Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, the Capital Region of New York, in the Chicago suburbs and Portsmouth in Virginia. Early in his career, Mr. Bluhm worked as an attorney with Mayer, Brown & Platt, where he rose to partner. Mr. Bluhm has been a life trustee and member of the investment committee at Northwestern University since 1986, a member of the board of directors of Northwestern Memorial Foundation of Northwestern Hospital since 2001, a member of the board of trustees of the Whitney Museum of American Art since 2003, during which time he has served in various roles including as President and co-chair, an honorary member of the board of directors for the Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Disorders