Alan Smolinisky is an American entrepreneur/investor and an owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball franchise. Smolinisky began his career in commercial real estate in the late 1990s while attending the University of Southern California. Smolinisky partnered with his then landlord Brian Chen after observing a large shortage of student housing around USC. Together, through their company Conquest Student Housing, they built and renovated many properties around Campus, eventually becoming the largest provider of student housing at USC, and later at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Conquest became so dominant at USC that the University sued the company under the Sherman Antitrust Act for "monopolizing the student housing market around USC’s University Park Campus".