Ishnella Azad

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
5Rivers CREHouston, TX (713) 686-1277
ABOUT

Ishnella grew up in a family of residential real estate investors of single- family homes. While she was at the University of Houston main campus she received 3 Bachelor of Science degrees in Biology, Psychology and Sociology. During college she and her father started a commercial real estate company. She then went to the medical school at Baylor college of Medicine. She moved out to Santa Monica and did residency training in Psychiatry at UCLA, VA Hospital and Cedars. Continuing their investing for close family and friends slowly grew to a decent size. When $60M was reached Dr. Azad quit medicine, moved back to Houston, and took on growing her company. No advertising nor website until the last couple years, through happy customers’ word of mouth, she grew her company alongside her father to $550MM in assets and 4.2 million square feet. Ishnella is COO, CRO and the investor development and capital raising and in the past year and a half she has gathered $70MM and made over 120 new investors. Her metrics are on track for getting her company to $1Billion in assets. In 2022 she was awarded as one of the top C-suite females in Houston Real Estate.

  • Specialties
    Landlord Rep (Retail)
  • Languages
    Spanish, Punjabi
  • Property Types
    Retail
  • Awards
    The President’s Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Websites
  • Company Website
    Visit Site
  • Education
    Baylor College of Medicine (MD) University of Houston (BS)
  • Organizations
    CREW - Network of Commercial Real Estate Women, International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)