Meet Bisnow’s 46 Women Leading Real Estate In NYC
Bisnow’s annual event highlighting women’s leadership in the commercial real estate industry is back again next month, ushering in the holiday season and celebrating the sector's hard-won successes despite the adversity many faced throughout 2023.
A total of 46 women from all different parts of the industry are being honored. A steering committee evaluated dozens of nominees based on their track records of success on challenging and ambitious projects, especially amid the headwinds faced by industry over the past year. This year's committee was made up of BGO’s Abbe Franchot Borok, Citigroup’s Linda Foggie, RXR Realty’s Whitney Arcaro, Invesco Real Estate’s Lesley Lisser and Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Laurie Grasso.
Commercial real estate remains a male-dominated industry, with women making incremental gains in leadership positions. Women hold 26.2% of roles in the C-suite at the industry's largest companies, up from 25.6% in 2022 and 23.5% in 2021, according to this year's Bisnow analysis of the industry.
Despite the obstacles facing New York City’s commercial real estate sector, individual women’s contributions pushed deals across finish lines throughout the year. The women chosen reflect the industry’s continued evolution as scars left by the pandemic heal. Bisnow will celebrate these honorees at the New York Women Leading Real Estate cocktail event on Dec. 12. More information about the event and tickets are available here.
The 2022 honorees, grouped by sector, are:
Icon & Influencer Award
Mary Ann Tighe, CEO, NY Tri-State Region, CBRE
Leadership
Sarah Hawkins, CEO, East Coast, Hines
Colleen Wenke, Co-President and Chief Operating Officer, Taconic
Callie Haines, Executive Vice President, Northeast Region Head, Brookfield Properties
Investment & Financing
Alexandra Cooley, Chief Investment Officer, Nuveen Green Capital
Neha Santiago, Managing Director, Head of Real Estate Private Credit, Cerberus
Brooke Richartz, Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase
Miriam Wheeler, Partner, Goldman Sachs
Wesley LePatner, Global Head of Core+ Real Estate and COO, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust
Jessica Zascki, Chief Transaction Officer, ShopCore
Operations & Asset Management
Reisa Bryan, CEO, Paths Management
Peggy DaSilva, Head of Asset Management, Pimco
Carly Miller, Managing Director, Head of U.S. Asset Management, PGIM Real Estate
Jennifer Perkins, Principal, Head of East Coast Multifamily, BGO
Carolyn Pianin, Head of Asset Management, Lightstone
Brokerage
Marion Jones, Managing Director, JLL
Brett Rosenberg, Senior Managing Director, Debt and Equity, JLL
Marcella Fasulo, Executive Vice Chairman, Capital Markets, Newmark
Development, Construction & Architecture
Mary Serafy, Managing Director, Construction, BRP Cos.
Mariana Circiumaru, Head of Development and Construction, Cain
Julia Murphy, Managing Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Monique Henley, Executive General Manager, Development, East Coast, Lendlease
Anna Crittenden, Principal, Gensler
Madeleine Roy, Development Director, Domain Cos.
Legal
Valerie Kitay, Chief Legal Officier, Savanna
Maysa Vahidi, EVP, General Counsel, Arbor Realty Trust
Susan Hinkson-Carling, Managing Director, Capalino
Louise Carroll, Partner and Co-Chair, Affordable Housing, Katten
Valerie Kelly, Partner, Fried Frank
Economic Development & Municipal
Melissa Román Burch, COO, NYC Economic Development Corp.
Kimberly Darga, Deputy Commissioner, Office of Development, NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development
Maria Torres-Springer, NYC Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development, NYC Office of the Mayor
Clare Newman, President and CEO, Trust for Governors Island
Lindsay Greene, CEO, Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp.
Noreen Doyle, President & CEO, Hudson River Park Trust
Founders & Business Owners
Alicia Glen, Founder, Managing Principal, MSquared
Laura Rapaport, President, Northbridge
Deborah Smith, Co-Founder and CEO, The CenterCap Group
Camille Renshaw, Co-Founder and CEO, B+E Net Lease
Valerie Berlin, Founder and Principal, Berlin Rosen
Robin Fisher, Founder, Blace
Jeanne Gang, Founder, Studio Gang
Technology
Yael Urman, Chief Technology Officer, Silverstein Properties
Swaroopa Penikelapati, Chief Technology Officer, VTS
Marybeth Coleman, Strategic Director, Dealpath
Minna Song, CEO, EliseAI
Tickets to the New York Women Leading Real Estate Cocktail and Award Ceremony, to be held Dec. 12, are available here.
