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Richard Anderson, President, The New York Building Congress Dick Anderson is a nationally-recognized association executive and urban planner. An advocate of effective infrastructure and economic development, he has dedicated more than 30 years to promoting the long-term growth of America's foremost urban centers, primarily New York City. |
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Kate Ascher, Milstein Professor of Urban Development, Columbia University GSAPP; Principal, Happold Consulting Kate Ascher is a Principal at Happold Consulting in NY, as well as the Milstein Professor of Urban Development at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). Her public sector work has involved overseeing major infrastructure and master planning projects for the NY metropolitan region, including the development of waste, telecommunications and energy plans in cooperation with community, environmental, business and other advocacy groups. She has also been responsible for navigating and completing a series of major waterfront redevelopment projects in Manhattan and in the Red Hook area of Brooklyn.
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Vishaan Chakrabarti, AIA, Holliday Professor of Real Estate Development and Director, CURE. The Center for Urban Real Estate, Columbia University GSAPP Vishaan Chakrabarti, is the Holliday Professor of Real Estate Development and the Director of
CURE., the Center for Urban Real Estate, at Columbia University’s Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning & Preservation. An experienced architect, planner, and developer,
Chakrabarti has transformed the Masters of Science in Real Estate Development into a
curriculum dedicated to smart growth policies locally, nationally, and globally, with an emphasis
on training students to synthetically tackle the three pillars of urban real estate, namely, the
financial, the physical, and the transactional. |
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Vin Cipolla, President, The Municipal Art Society of New York Vin Cipolla is recognized for his business and civic entrepreneurship, having achieved parallel successes in the private and public sectors. He has served on more than twenty-five nonprofit boards and nine corporate boards. A six-time corporate CEO, he has founded three successfulcompanies in the media, marketing, communications and technology fields, developing and overseeing global operations. He is also a former CEO with Fidelity Investments. Cipolla has consistently provided civic leadership in the arts and environmental fields throughout his adult life. |
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Patrick J. Foye, Executive Director, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Patrick J. Foye became Executive Director of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on November 1, 2011. Prior to joining the Port Authority, he served as Deputy Secretary for Economic Development for Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. Foye was a Mergers and Acquisitions Partner at Skadden Arps and managing partner of the firm's Brussels, Budapest and Moscow offices. He was Executive Vice President of AIMCO, a real estate investment trust and a component of the S&P 500, and served as President and CEO of the United Way of Long Island. |
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Anna Hayes Levin, Commissioner, NYC Department of Planning and Former Member, Manhattan Community Board 4 Anna Hayes Levin was appointed to the City Planning Commission in August 2009 by Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer. Levin was a member of Manhattan Community Board No. 4 and chair of its Clinton/Hell's Kitchen Land Use Committee from April 2001 to March 2009. As a CB4 member, she also served on the Hudson Yards Community Advisory Committee, the Javits Community Advisory Committee, the Moynihan Station Community Advisory Committee and the board of the Clinton Seed Fund and was an alternate director of the Hudson Yards Development Corporation. She is a trustee of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and previously served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Marymount Manhattan College. From 1993 to 1999 Ms. Levin was Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc., responsible for the legal affairs of the U.S.-based operating companies in the LVMH Group. |
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Paul Katz, FAIA, HKIA, Managing Principal, KPF KPF Managing Principal Paul Katz has played a crucial role in the firm’s development into a global leader in architectural practice. Since joining KPF in 1984, Katz has overseen some of the most exciting and innovative projects undertaken by any firm in the world. He leads KPF’s staff of over 550 people from six offices located around the world. Perhaps the most significant building enterprise Mr. Katz has been responsible for is the Roppongi Hills Project in Tokyo, on which he worked for 14 years. Completed in 2004, the 11-acre project comprises over 6 million square feet, constituting one of the largest mixed- use projects anywhere. Katz has focused on architectural issues of urban density and the important role of high rise structures as the building type of our century. Designing and managing award-winning projects in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, he has been at the forefront of the globalization of the architectural profession over the last 20 years. |
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A. Eugene Kohn, FAIA, RIBA, JIA, Chairman, Principal, KPF As a cofounder and principal of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, A. Eugene Kohn has led many of the firm’s most complex and high-profile projects, developing the firm’s reputation as one of the world’s preeminent architectural practices. Known for his inspirational leadership and commitment to design excellence, Mr. Kohn is a skillful collaborator who brings together diverse project teams to create buildings that contribute to their surroundings on both functional and social levels.
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Charles J. Maikish, Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer, Before recently joining Citi as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer for Citi Reality Services globally, Charles J. Maikish was Managing Director, Global Head of Real Estate for BlackRock. He is entrusted with the task of supervising and managing a global team, ensuring the highest quality working spaces and facilities, delivering excellence and efficiency, while overseeing a seamless and effective integration of two large firms, BlackRock and Barclays Global Inc.
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Rafael Pelli, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Principal, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects Rafael Pelli is the partner directing the Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects New York office, established in 2000. Since that time, he has directed the design for several of the firm's New York projects. These include Bloomberg Tower, a mixed-use high-rise in Midtown that contains the new headquarters for Bloomberg L.P. and the residential condominiums One Beacon Court. Pelli was the designer of the reconstruction of the World Financial Center, and the lead designer for the Theodore Roosevelt U.S. Courthouse in Brooklyn. He was also the designer for three high-rise apartment buildings in Battery Park City: the Solaire, the Verdesian and the Visionaire. |
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Seth W. Pinsky, President, New York City Economic Development Corporation Seth W. Pinsky was appointed President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in February 2008, seven months before the collapse of Lehman Brothers ushered in one of the most significant economic downturns in generations. Since then, Pinsky has responded to the crisis by re-evaluating the agency's strategy, seeking to position the City as the global center for innovation in the 21st Century.
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Richard Powell, Director of Planning and Development, Capital & Counties Properties PLC Powell joined Capco as Director of Planning and Development in the summer of 2010. He is responsible for the 77 acre, $12 billion mixed-use Earls Court project. A Chartered Surveyor, he trained at DTZ and KPMG and was a founding member of HM Treasury Taskforce under the Blair administration in 1997 promoting the Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships. He joined Lend Lease in 2002 and was involved in major projects in London including Stratford City and the Olympic Village, Elephant and Castle, and the creation of First Base, an innovative affordable housing company. |
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Jeffrey B. Rosen, Director of Real Estate, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Jeffrey Rosen has been the MTA's Director of Real Estate since August 2009. Before that, he was an attorney in private practice specializing in real estate and project finance, most recently at the law firm Arent Fox. He is a graduate of Harvard College and received his law degree from NYU in 1981. |
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Gary M. Rosenberg, Chairman & Founding Partner, Rosenberg & Estis, PC. Gary Rosenberg is the Chairman, founding partner and former managing partner of Rosenberg & Estis, PC. Rosenberg founded the firm in 1975 upon his admittance to the bar. During his first 15 years, Rosenberg was an active litigator and appellate attorney involved in many significant precedent setting real estate cases in the New York State Court of Appeals. In 1992, Rosenberg began working on the acquisition of the site which would become 4 Times Square (the Conde Nast Building). Rosenberg went on to work on the construction loan, the Conde Nast and Skadden, Arps leases, and the permanent financing which, at $420 million was the largest single asset securitization of its time. From 2002 to 2010, Rosenberg worked on what would become One Bryant Park (the Bank of America Tower). He was counsel for the Durst Organization in the site acquisition, the $900 million construction loan, the Bank of America Lease and the $1.3 billion permanent loan.
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Stephen M. Ross, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Related Companies Stephen M. Ross is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Related Companies. Mr. Ross formed the company in 1972 and today the company includes over 2,000 professionals. Related has developed over $20 billion in real estate and owns real estate assets valued at over $15 billion made up of best-in-class mixed-use, residential, retail, office, trade show and affordable properties in premier high-barrier-to-entry markets. Mr. Ross is also the owner of the Miami Dolphins and Sun Life Stadium. |
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Lynne B. Sagalyn, Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate; Director, MBA Real Estate Program and Director, Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, Columbia Business School Lynne B. Sagalyn is the Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate Development at Columbia Business School, where she is director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate and the MBA Real Estate Program. This most recent position marks a return to Columbia, where she had been a professor of finance and economics for more than twelve years, and to the MBA Real Estate Program, which she developed during that period.
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Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair, The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Sassen’s books are translated into over 20 languages. She is the recipient of diverse awards and mentions, ranging from multiple doctor honoris causa to named lectures and being selected as one of the 100 Top Global Thinkers of 2011 by Foreign Policy Magazine. |
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Dean Shapiro, Senior Vice President, Oxford Properties Group Dean Shapiro is a Senior Vice President at Oxford Properties Group. He focuses on the Hudson Yards project, working closely with The Related Companies to lead commercial leasing and marketing efforts for the 26-acre proposed project. Shapiro was previously with Building and Land Technology in Stamford, CT as a partner, where he was responsible for commercial leasing for the Building and Land Technology portfolio, including the Harbor Point project in Stamford, CT. He also served as Executive Managing Director at CB Richard Ellis, with responsibility for leading its New York City brokerage operations. Shapiro received his MBA from Cornell University / London Business School and completed his undergraduate at Vanderbilt University. |
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Eric Sorensen, Director of Central London Forward Eric Sorensen is the Director of Central London Forward. He was previously Chief Executive of Thames Gateway London Partnership and before that was Chief Executive of the London Docklands Development Corporation. In his earlier career Sorensen was a senior civil servant in the Department of the Environment, with roles including Director of Housing, Personnel Director and Head of Inner Cities Directorate. He has been a non-executive Director of Homerton Hospital and is currently a Governor of the Museum of London, Governor of a primary school, and Chair of the Royal Docks Charitable Trust. |
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Mike Stowell, Managing Partner, Terry Farrell and Partners Mike Stowell is one of Farrells’ most experienced project directors and has worked on many of the practice’s high profile masterplans and building projects in the UK, Hong Kong and Korea. He plays a central role within the practice’s design group, which is responsible for complex urban development projects. During his 22 years at the practice, Stowell has designed and delivered numerous masterplans and complex buildings on sensitive sites, negotiated with planners, interest groups, English Heritage and CABE, and directed the consultant teams. He is currently Partner in charge of the Earls Court Masterplan proposal for Capco. |
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Steven Spinola, President, The Real Estate Board of New York Steven Spinola is President of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), the real estate industry’s leading trade association in New York City with more than 12,000 members. REBNY’s membership includes the city’s top building owners, developers, brokers, and managers, as well as banks, insurance companies, brokerage houses, architects, attorneys and other individuals and institutions professionally involved in New York City real estate. The Board is a vigorous advocate of policies to promote local economic growth, major city-wide development projects and new residential and commercial construction, and rehabilitation. |
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Carl Weisbrod, Partner, HR&A Advisors, Inc. Mr. Weisbrod is an attorney with a distinguished career in urban revitalization initiatives focused on developing New York City neighborhoods. He has served as President of the Real Estate Division for Trinity Church and Executive Vice-President of Trinity Church-St. Paul’s Chapel, leading a successful effort to establish the Hudson Square Connection business improvement district in 2009. A Partner at HR&A since 2011, Mr. Weisbrod continues to advise Trinity's efforts to rezone a 19 block area in Hudson Square. Mr. Weisbrod also serves as Board Chair of the New York State Health Foundation and New York City Outward Bound, and is a Trustee of the Urban Land Institute. In addition, Mr. Weisbrod is a Clinical Professor and Academic Chair of Global Real Estate at New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate. |
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Carol Willis, Director, The Skyscraper Museum Carol Willis is the founder, director, and curator of The Skyscraper Museum. An architectural and urban historian, she has researched, taught and written about the history of American city building. She is the author of Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago (Princeton Architectural Press, 1995: 2008), which received an AIA book award and was named "Best Book on North American Urbanism, 1995" by the Urban History Association. Critic Herbert Muschamp has praised Ms. Willis in The New York Times as "the brilliant and energetic woman who created the Skyscraper Museum in 1996 from nothing but her imagination, her passion for New York architecture, and her belief in the importance of history and the value of the public realm."
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Robert D. Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association Robert D. Yaro is the President of Regional Plan Association, America's oldest independent metropolitan policy, research and advocacy group. Based in Manhattan, RPA promotes plans, policies and investments needed to improve the quality of life and competitiveness of the New York Metropolitan Region, America's largest urban area. Mr. Yaro Co-chairs the Empire State Transportation Alliance and the Friends of Moynihan Station. He serves on Mayor Bloomberg's Sustainability Advisory Board, which helped prepare PlaNYC 2030, New York City's new long-range sustainability plan. Since 2001, Yaro has been Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He also taught at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts. |
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Michael S. Zetlin, Esq., Founding Partner, Zetlin & De Chiara LLP Michael S. Zetlin, a founding Partner of Zetlin & De Chiara LLP, represents national and multi-national firms in a wide range of construction and real estate matters. A graduate civil engineer as well as an attorney, Zetlin has successfully litigated complex multi-million dollar construction claims and actively consults with clients on general business matters, construction contracting and risk management. He is at the forefront of promoting P3 projects throughout New York State, coordinating efforts between various industry sector representatives – financial, development, construction, design and government – and addresses risk management concepts and design/construction documents relating to P3 projects. Zetlin represents owners, developers, institutions, design professionals, construction managers, contractors and other parties in the construction industry.
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