Ronald Langley has been elected chairman of...

Ronald Langley has been elected chairman of Pacific Southwest Corp., a Northridge-based real estate and financial services concern.

Langley is former executive director of Industrial Equity Pacific Ltd., the North American operating unit of Brierley Investments Ltd., one of New Zealand’s biggest companies. Langley oversaw an expansion of Industrial Equity’s U.S. investment portfolio to more than $600 million.