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 DAVID ARENA
President, Grubb & Ellis New York
Moderator, Port Authority Panel
David Arena is President of Grubb & Ellis New York, Inc., a leading provider of integrated real estate services in the New York Metropolitan Region. His business plan is simple: create the best local real estate firm in New York – one committed to understanding and serving the client’s best interests; focused on recruiting and retaining the brightest real estate professionals in the business; and dedicated to building wealth for all of its stakeholders. Mr. Arena’s experience as a senior executive of three pre-eminent companies known for their brainpower and discipline gives him the platform to create a world class environment at Grubb & Ellis. As a former ‘client’, he has a unique insight into client’s aspirations. He is considered an industry expert, particularly in the area of corporate real estate and how companies can utilize real estate offensively to enhance their business. Mr. Arena is also a leader known for his ability to generate and motivate world class teams. He brings an international business perspective and real estate background – as investor, corporate real estate professional and advisor – to his new mission.
 KENT L. BARWICK
President, Municipal Art Society
Closing Remarks
A 40-year advocate for enlightened city planning in New York, Kent L. Barwick has had a long and productive association with MAS, having served twice as its president and earlier as its first full-time executive director. He is a lifetime director. He has also served as chairman of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, executive director of the New York State Council on the Arts, and president of the New York State Historical Association. Known as NYC’s foremost public advocate, he actively led the charge to save Grand Central Terminal, stopped towering buildings that would have cast shadows across Central Park, worked to preserve the character of Times Square, helped revitalize NY’s waterfront, and strongly favors building a new Moynihan Station at the Farley Post Office. Mr. Barwick grew up on Long Island and graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in American Studies. In the fall of 2008, Mr. Barwick will become president emeritus of MAS and return after a sabbatical to assist on selected projects and initiatives.
EUGENE BAUCHNER
Vice President of Real Estate for WPP
Keynote Panel
Eugene Bauchner is currently the Vice President of Real Estate for WPP, a global communications services company. Joining WPP in 1999 Mr. Bauchner has since lead the real estate department of WPP, and is responsible for all Real Estate functions in North & South America. Ogilvy & Mather, the international advertising and public relations agency, and a WPP company, will be the first corporate tenants to embrace the Far West Side at 636 11th Avenue and 47th Street. The lease is for the entire 11-story building of 555,000 sf
Prior to joining WPP Mr. Bauchner was the Group Real Estate Manager for United Technologies Corporation in Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. Bauchner has received The William G. Onsted Award from the Department of the Treasury, presented by Nicholas Brady, Secretary of the Treasury, April 4, 1991, Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the Private Sector Council for assistance in developing real estate inventory and property management procedures for the Government's portfolio of foreclosed property in the R.T.C. and F.S.L.I.C.
 TOM BOW
Senior Vice President; The Durst Organization
Times Square Panel
Thomas Bow is the Senior Vice President of The Durst Organization where he oversees the leasing of over 8 million square feet of commercial properties in New York City. Since joining The Durst Organization in 1992, Mr. Bow has leased nearly 10 million square feet and has been responsible for some of the largest commercial leasing transactions in the United States. In 1996, Mr. Bow negotiated the largest and third largest commercial leases of the nation with Skadden Arps and Conde Nast at 4 Times Square. He successfully pre-leased 1.6 million square feet to Bank of America at One Bryant Park in 2005 and 2006. Prior to joining The Durst Organization, Mr. Bow worked at Cushman and Wakefield. He is a licensed real estate broker, a member of REBNY and YM/WREA. He holds an MBA in Real Estate Finance from Columbia University.
 ANNE COVELL
Mng. Dir. Analytics; Cushman & Wakefield
Hudson Yards/Far West Side Panel
Ms. Covell heads the Analytics team of C&W’s Global Consulting Group. She has over 22 years of real estate advisory experience in monitoring and forecasting economic and real estate trends across the nation. Ms. Covell manages a variety of advisory assignments including market and feasibility studies, highest and best use studies, demographic/customer profiles, and portfolio tracking and benchmarking. Clients include California Urban Investment Partners (CalPERS and MacFarlane Partners), Port Authority of NY & NJ, NYC Office of Management & Budget, Nokia, Ciba, and Colgate-Palmolive. Ms. Covell teaches a market feasibility and forecast class for REBNY (Real Estate Board of New York), and serves as a guest lecturer at the Graduate program in Real Estate at Columbia University, New York University, and Baruch College. She was named as one of the Women Real Estate Leaders for the 21st Century by Real Estate Weekly magazine. Ms. Covell is an active member of the two leading NYC women’s professional real estate organizations – WX and AREW, and has served on the Board of the latter. She is a member of The Counselors of Real Estate, a Fellow of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and the International Council of Shopping Centers North American Research Task Force.
 J. CHRISTOPHER DALY
Founder and CEO, Sheldrake Organization
Hudson Yards/Far West Side Panel
J. Christopher Daly founded the Sheldrake Organization in 1988 with the mission to recycle and create urban residential and commercial properties. Under Chris’ leadership the company has earned a reputation as a responsible and efficient developer, dedicated to providing affordable housing, environmentally responsible residences, and creative urban business opportunities. With nearly 5,000 units of housing, the Sheldrake Organization has and will continue to prove itself to be an effective and socially conscious developer, owner and manager of all types of real estate.
 ROBERT L. FREEDMAN
President & CEO, GVA Williams
Penn Station/8th Ave Panel
Mr. Freedman joined Williams Real Estate in 1974. He became a shareholder in 1985 and was subsequently elected to the Board of Directors. Mr. Freedman’s principal areas of concentration have been tenant representation and corporate representation of major agency dispositions. He has been instrumental in the development of GVA Worldwide of which Williams Real Estate is the founding member. Under his aegis the firm has developed a formidable real estate advisory practice. (He is a featured speaker in the industry and has delivered the keynote address of the Real Estate Board of New York on the state of the industry.) He makes regular appearances as an industry spokesman on major media venues like MSNBC, CNBC, Fox, ABC and others. Mr. Freedman has been appointed the co-chairman of the Incentive and Zoning Subcommittee of Senator Schumer’s Group of 35. His civic and charitable associations include the Advisory Board of The Salvation Army, The Morgan Library, the Executive Board of The Gladney Center, Fort Worth, Texas, his many years of participation in the “Principal for a Day” Program, as well as his involvement with The Partnership for the Homeless in which they recently honored him as “The Man of the Year”.
 BARRY GOSIN
CEO; Newmark Knight Frank
Port Authority Panel
Barry M. Gosin has been a principal of Newmark Knight Frank since 1978 and he has served as CEO since 1979, directing all facets of the day-to-day operations for the firm. Mr. Gosin has spearheaded and guided Newmark Knight Frank’s national expansion initiatives and has been instrumental in the creation of Newmark Knight Frank’s global partnership with Knight Frank LLP. Taking a visionary approach to industry practices, Mr. Gosin has directed the firm’s client focused growth through the addition of project management, logistics and facilities management divisions. Over the course of his career, Mr. Gosin has personally facilitated several billion dollars worth of office leasing transactions. In the past 15 years alone, he has been responsible for leasing more than 30 million square feet of commercial space in some of the largest and most innovative transactions in New York City history. Among his extensive roster of corporate clients, Mr. Gosin has negotiated headquarter leases for Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Chadbourne & Parke; White & Case LLP; Cahill Gordon Reindel; Bloomberg L.P.; AXA Equitable; Lowe Lintas & Partners and others. His clients also include Citigroup Inc.; The Bank of New York; North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System; The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. and KeySpan Energy.
 WOODY HELLER
Executive Managing Director, Capital Transactions Group; Studley
Port Authority Panel
Mr. Heller is executive managing director and group head of the Capital Transactions Group of Studley in New York. With 27 years of experience in the real estate business, Mr. Heller is responsible for investment sales activity in the New York market, where he focuses on office, residential, and specialty retail buildings, the most notable of which were the sale of Citigroup Center and the Rhinelander Mansion leased to Polo Ralph Lauren. The other markets in which he has been active include: Chicago, Philadelphia, and markets in New Jersey, Florida, Ohio and Indiana. Separate from the outright sale of properties, he has also structured participating and/or convertible mortgages, equity joint ventures, and note sales, the most notable of which was the sale of the notes and mortgage encumbering the Chrysler Building. During his tenure, Mr. Heller has closed over $6 billion of asset and note sale transactions comprising more than 32 million square feet. Prior to joining Studley, Mr. Heller worked for Insignia/ESG and Jones Lang LaSalle.
 DAN KAPLAN
AIA, Senior Partner FX Fowle
Times Square Panel
Architect Dan Kaplan, AIA, LEED, joined FXFOWLE in 1987, became a Partner in 1996, and was elevated to Senior Partner in 2003. He has served in a design and leadership capacity for many of the firm’s largest projects, crafting modern award-winning buildings distinguished by imagination, responsibility, and sophistication. With over twenty years of experience, Dan excels in the design of urban buildings and complex mixed-use configurations. He leads the firm’s Commercial/ Residential Studio and his leadership and commitment has advanced the technical and design rigor of FXFOWLE’s work. Projects currently under Dan’s direction include Eleven Times Square, a new projected LEED Gold corporate office tower on 8th Avenue between 41st and 42nd Streets for SJP Properties; Northside Piers and Palmer’s Dock, a new mixed-use residential development along the East River in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn for L&M Equity Participants and RD Management, and the redevelopment of the existing St. Vincent Hospital Campus in Greenwich Village. Dan and his team recently completed the award-winning The New York Times Building, designed in collaboration with Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Archstone Clinton on the West side, The Onyx in Chelsea, and the development plan the Eastern and Western Rail Yards for Durst Organization and Vornado Reality Trust.
 MICHAEL KATZ
Co-CEO, Sterling American Funds
Keynote Panel
Michael Katz joined Sterling Equities in 1973 and currently serves as a Senior Executive Vice President. He is Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Sterling American Funds with day-to-day responsibility for the management of their investments as well as leading and directing Sterling Equities’ and Sterling American Funds’ in-house financing departments. Mr. Katz is a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Mets. He also serves on the Board of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, the JCCA and is a Board member of many nonprofit organizations and institutions. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Bernard M. Baruch College.
 ROBERT KNAKAL
Chairman/Founding Partner, Massey Knakal Realty Services
Moderator, Hudson Yards/Far West Side Panel
Mr. Knakal graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1984. He majored in real estate finance and entrepreneurial management and was a member of the Wharton School’s Real Estate Club.
In 1981, Mr. Knakal was hired by Coldwell Banker Commercial - now CB Richard Ellis - as a market research intern. He returned the following summer as co leader of its summer market research group and in 1983, obtained his real estate salesperson license. He worked that summer at CB as an assistant to a senior broker. After graduation, he started as a full-time investment property specialist with CB’s midtown Manhattan office.
 STEPHEN LEFKOWITZ
Partner, Real Estate; Fried Frank
Hudson Yards/Far West Side Panel
Stephen Lefkowitz is a real estate partner resident in Fried Frank’s New York office. He joined the firm in 2003. Mr. Lefkowitz’s practice focuses on real estate development, with an emphasis on planning, land use and zoning, planning, and structuring large-scale, complex projects involving public/private development and financing arrangements. He also represents many companies in structuring tax and other municipal incentives with New York City and State. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Lefkowitz held various positions. From 1976 to 1982, he was an associate professor at Columbia University School of Law. In 1976, he served as counsel to the New York State Senate Committee on Housing and Urban Development. From 1971 to 1975, he served as general counsel to the New York State Urban Development Corporation (Empire State Development Corporation) and had previously served as special assistant counsel to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. He currently serves as secretary, member of the board of directors and member of the executive committee of the Alliance for Downtown New York. Mr. Lefkowitz is consistently recognized by Chambers USA as a leading individual for Real Estate: Zoning / Land Use and recognized by Legal 500 in Development and Leasing. He received his LLB, magna cum laude, in 1962 from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Law Review. He received his BA, summa cum laude, from Yale College in 1959, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is admitted to the bar in New York.
 ROBERT C. LIEBER
NYC Deputy Mayor for Economic Development
Special Remarks
Prior to his appointment as Deputy Mayor, Mr. Lieber was the President of the NYC Economic Development Corporation where he helped shepherd the Jamaica, Queens rezoning to completion in one of the largest rezonings that NYC has ever done, developed the comprehensive rezoning plan for Coney Island, and steered the city’s efforts to create a new mixed-use neighborhood in Willets Point. As Deputy Mayor, Mr. Lieber continues his work on the development of Moynihan Station, the river to river rezoning of 125th St in Harlem, the transformation of the Kingsbridge Armory and the development of the former US Naval Homeport in Staten Island. He previously held key management positions at Lehman Brothers and was recognized by Institutional Investor Magazine for “Deal of the Year, 1999.” He holds a Masters of Business Adminsitration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Chair of the Zell-Lurie Real Estate Center and trustee of the Urban Land Institute.
 PAMELA LIEBMAN
President & Chief Executive Officer; The Corcoran Group
Keynote Panel
Pamela Liebman has been President and Chief Executive Officer of The Corcoran Group, the country’s premier residential real estate company, since 2000. She provides strategic direction to the company, overseeing Corcoran’s fifty-five managers and 2700 employees, and focuses the projects of a corporation that has sales of more than $18 billion annually. Her rise to the Presidency insures proven energetic leadership tempered by wisdom and experience as the company moves forward.
Shortly after joining The Corcoran Group as a broker in 1985, Pamela was named Director of the company’s first Downtown office. Under her guidance, that office grew from twelve to over seventy agents and became a major force in the renaissance of residential Manhattan south of 14th Street. That experience led to her partnership in the corporation in 1990 and to her pivotal role as founding partner of the company’s Marketing Division, the branch of Corcoran that worked with building developers to strategically market new properties from their inception. With Pamela at the helm, Marketing grew into an entity that produced over $1 billion in total sales and redefined the way The Corcoran Group did business. Her leadership and business acumen resulted in her selection as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2000. In 2001, she spearheaded the negotiations that resulted in the successful acquisition of The Corcoran Group by NRT, the nation’s largest real estate brokerage and a subsidiary of Realogy Corporation. With the acquisitions of East Hampton, NY-based Cook Pony Farm and Paulette Koch Real Estate of Palm Beach in 2003, The Corcoran Group expanded its presence into those key markets. Further acquisitions – of McCann Coyner Clarke in Palm Beach, of Allmon Tiernan & Ely in Delray Beach, FL, of Dayton-Halstead and Allan Schneider Associates in the Hamptons, and of Citi-Habitats in New York City – transformed the company into one of the nation’s premier real estate firms. In addition,
The Sunshine Group, the nation’s most important marketing agency for new luxury condominium projects, was folded in to Corcoran and cemented Corcoran’s position as New York City’s largest and most significant residential real estate entity.
 JOHN T. LIVINGSTON
President, Tishman Construction Corporation
Port Authority Panel
Mr. Livingston is responsible for managing Tishman Construction Corporation nationally, and oversees all aspects of the administration and operation of nine offices comprising 1,100 employees. Current construction projects include the headquarters for both Bank of America and Goldman Sachs in New York, the Freedom Tower and World Trade Center Towers 3 and 4, the Revel Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, MGM MIRAGE’s City Center, an 18-million square foot casino hotel, condo, entertainment, and retail complex in Las Vegas, and Boyd Gaming’s Echelon, a 12-million square foot casino, hotel, entertainment and retail project, also in Las Vegas. The firm recently completed the restoration and partial conversion to condos of New York’s famous Plaza Hotel. Prior to his most current activities, Mr. Livingston, as President and COO of Tishman Urban Development Corporation, led the development of the Tishman-owned, 860-room Westin New York at Times Square and the 200,000-square foot E Walk retail, entertainment and restaurant complex on 42nd Street. Before joining Tishman, Mr. Livingston was a Partner of The Linpro Company, overseeing development in New York and Connecticut. At Linpro, Mr. Livingston focused on large public/private development projects, including the one-million-square foot Federal Office Building at 290 Broadway in lower Manhattan. From 1986 to 1989, Mr. Livingston was the Executive Vice President of Commercial Development with the New York City Public Development Corporation (PDC). At PDC, Mr. Livingston managed a staff of 60 professionals and supervised 100 projects through a variety of public/private partnerships. Projects included the 42nd
Street Development Project, Metrotech, Queens West, and the second phase of the South Street Seaport. In February, 1993, Mr. Livingston was named by Crain’s New York Business as one of its “40 Under 40” award recipients for outstanding business achievement. Mr. Livingston is an Adjunct Professor for Columbia University’s Master’s in Real Estate Program, and has lectured at Cornell University, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania.
 STEVEN J. POZYCKI
Chairman & CEO, SJP Properties
Keynote Panel
Steven J. Pozycki is founder, Chairman and CEO of SJP Properties, a privately held commercial real estate development organization headquartered in Parsippany, NJ. Under Mr. Pozycki’s leadership, the company has developed more than 20 million-square-feet of speculative and build-to-suit headquarters-quality office space in prime markets throughout the region. SJP Properties also controls a pipeline of an additional 6 million-square feet of strategically located office space fully permitted for future development. The company is currently developing approximately $2 billion of new residential and commercial projects in New York, including 11 Times Square, a 1.1 million-square-foot speculative commercial and retail tower, and two luxury condominium towers also located in midtown. An alumnus of Monmouth University, Mr. Pozycki earned a B.A. in Business Administration in 1973. He was awarded the Real Estate Institute’s Leadership of Excellence Award in 1996 for his significant contributions to the New Jersey real estate industry. Mr. Pozycki serves in a leadership capacity on many community, civic and professional organizations including the Board of Directors of New Jersey Future, a statewide advocacy and watchdog for New Jersey’s pioneering Development and Redevelopment Plan.
 PETER G. RIGUARDI
President, NY Region, Jones Lang LaSalle New York
Penn Station/8th Ave Panel
As President of the New York region for Jones Lang LaSalle, Peter Riguardi leads all Operations for Jones Lang LaSalle in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area. He is responsible for broadening the company’s New York platform by developing key client relationships, leading major projects, and maintaining senior real estate industry contacts and political relationships. He oversees a team of approximately 600 professionals in seven offices throughout the tri-state. Under Mr. Riguardi’s leadership, Jones Lang LaSalle’s New York City market share, revenue and profitability have all increased substantially while Jones Lang LaSalle has positioned itself as a market leader. As a member of the Jones Lang LaSalle Americas Executive Committee he helps develop a national business strategy for the company. He is also on The Board of Directors of The Real Estate Board of New York and is an active member of the organization’s senior leadership and is a member of The Partnership for the City of New York. Prior to joining Jones Lang LaSalle in September 2002, Mr. Riguardi served as Vice Chairman and Principal of Colliers ABR Inc., a company that he helped form in 1994. Riguardi started his real estate career at GVA Williams where he was the youngest Senior Vice President in the firm’s history. During his 25 year career he has been actively involved in several of the largest and most noteworthy transactions in metropolitan New York City.
 RICHARD RUBEN
Chief Executive Officer, Ruben Companies
Port Authority Panel
Richard Ruben is Chief Executive Officer of Ruben Companies. (www.rubenco.com). The company has developed and continues to own and manage major office and residential properties in New York, Washington, D.C. and Boston. Its developments include One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York, Lincoln Square in Washington, D.C., and Devonshire in Boston. The firm’s latest projects are 1100 South Capitol Street, SE, a 350,000 square foot office building in Washington, DC; and 20X Square, a 1.5 million square foot office building on 42nd Street in Manhattan. Mr. Ruben also is the founder of Workspeed Holdings, LLC (www.workspeed.com), whose internet-based applications are in use in over 250 million square feet of properties throughout the United States.
 DANIEL SCHACHTER
Director, Prudential Huntoon Paige
Hudson Yards/Far West Side Panel
Daniel is a Director in the FHA Group of Prudential Mortgage Capital Company. In this role he specializes in FHA housing loan programs including credit enhancement of fixed- and variable -rate tax-exempt bonds, taxable loans, forward commitments for new construction and substantial rehab, refinances, subordinate debt, bridge/interim loans and mezzanine financing. He is located in Newark, New Jersey Prudential Huntoon Paige, a part of Prudential Mortgage Capital Company, is a leading provider of FHA-insured loans on multifamily properties. The company originates and services long-term, fully amortizing, fixed rate, non-recourse loans from full-service originations offices strategically located throughout the United States. Prior to joining Prudential, Daniel was an Expert Consultant for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where his expertise was utilized to troubleshoot problem projects and portfolios. Daniel supervised dozens of workouts for thousands of apartments and new debt in the millions of dollars. He has also worked for the City of New York developing affordable moderate and middle-income housing, and rehabilitated housing using Low Income Housing Tax Credits as a non-profit executive. He brings over a decade of experience in multifamily workouts and closings with a proven record in writing legal documents and negotiating with governmental, non-profit and
corporate entities Daniel holds a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, a MA from Teachers College, and a B.A. from Columbia College, both of Columbia University, New York, NY.
 JONATHAN A. SCHEIN
President and CEO, ScheinMedia
Welcoming Remarks and Moderator, Keynote Panel
ScheinMedia is a diversified media company whose holdings include New Jersey & Company magazine; NJand.com, the daily business and green news website for New Jersey; MetroGreenBusiness.com, the green and sustainable business and real estate websited for the metro New York area; New York House magazine; and FlierWire.com. He is the former President and CEO of Real Estate Media, Inc.
 CHRISTOPHER SCHLANK
Managing Partner, Savanna Fund
Penn Station/8th Ave Panel
Mr. Schlank is a Founder and Managing Partner of Savanna. At Savanna, Mr. Schlank is in charge of construction and redevelopment and shares responsibilities for asset management, sales and marketing and acquisitions. Mr. Schlank has overseen the acquisition and redevelopment of over 35 real estate assets, comprising over six million square feet of space, including raw land development sites, apartments, office buildings, industrial to residential conversions, retail and warehouse/distribution properties. Prior to founding Savanna, Mr. Schlank was a project manager for the Westside Federation for Senior Housing, a New York based developer of low-income housing. Mr. Schlank received an MS in Real Estate Development from the Columbia School of Architecture and a BA in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Schlank is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia University where he teaches a seminar in Real Estate Finance to graduate students in the Columbia Architecture School’s Real Estate Master’s Degree Program.
 ROBERT E. SELSAM
Sr. Vice Pres/Regional Director, Boston Properties
Times Square Panel
Robert Selsam manages the New York Office of Boston Properties, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) with major offices in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. He oversees all of the company’s New York operations, including development, acquisitions, leasing, and management. The company recently completed the 1.2 million square foot Times Square Tower and 1.0 million square foot 5 Times Square (home of Ernst & Young, and recently sold) at the heart of Time Square. In addition to these properties, Boston Properties developed and owns 599 Lexington Avenue, and has acquired 399 Park Avenue, Citigroup Center, and 280 Park Avenue (recently sold). Robert has been with Boston Properties in the New York Office for 24 years. Prior to that he was Director of Planning for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Previously he served in several positions at the New York City Planning Commission/Department of City Planning, lastly as Director of the Transportation and Regional Planning Division. Robert is a Governor of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) and Chairman of its Transportation Committee. He also serves on the Executive Committee and is a Board Member of the New York Building Congress. He is Chairman of the Board of the Salvadori Center, an educational organization whose mission is to train teachers in hands-on project based learning techniques that encourage students’ interest in math, science, and the humanities. Robert is also a trustee of Phipps Houses, a major provider of low and moderate income housing in New York City, and Chairman of its Real Estate Committee.
 STEPHEN SIEGEL
Chairman-Global Brokerage, CB Richard Ellis
Times Square Panel
In his role as Chairman of Global Brokerage, Stephen Siegel advises major corporations and property owners on a broad range of real estate issues. Mr. Siegel is widely regarded in commercial real estate circles as one of the industry’s most talented and prolific professionals. In 2005, he was featured in the Urban Land Institute’s book, “Leadership Legacies: Lessons Learned from Ten Real Estate Legends.” The previous year, Mr. Siegel was honored with Commercial Property News’ Lifetime Achievement Award and named by Crain’s as one of the 100 Most Influential Business Leaders in New York City. Prior to the merger with CBRE, as Chairman and CEO of Insignia/ESG, Mr. Siegel was largely responsible for masterminding the global expansion of the firm, nationwide as well as throughout Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Thailand and Latin America. In that role, he also managed a group that completed approximately $2 billion in co-investments in a wide range of U.S. office, residential, hotel and retail real estate portfolios.
 JOSHUA SIREFMAN
SVP Development, Brookfield Properties
Hudson Yards/Far West Side Panel
Josh Sirefman is responsible for leading the company’s development efforts across the United States. Brookfield’s rapidly expanding U.S. development portfolio includes sites in New York, Washington D.C., Houston, Denver and Los Angeles with a development pipeline of more than ten million square feet.
Prior to joining Brookfield Properties, Josh served as the Interim President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). In addition to his interim role at EDC, he was the Director for the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development and Rebuilding and Chief of Staff for the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding. Josh worked with the Deputy Mayor to develop and advance Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s five borough economic development strategy, which has spurred New York’s dramatic economic resurgence. Prior to joining the Bloomberg Administration, Josh served as a principal with the consulting firm of Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Alschuler, where he specialized in managing large-scale, public/private urban development projects around the country.
 DIANA L. TAYLOR
Chair, Hudson River Park Trust, Board of Directors
Opening Remarks
Diana Taylor has more than 20 years of experience serving in both the public and private sectors. She joined Wolfensohn & Co., an investment banking firm, as a Managing Director in April, 2007, having started her career as an investment banker, working for Smith Barney, Lehman Brothers, and Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette. She has held various positions in the State Government, including Chief Financial Officer of the Long Island Power Authority, and Deputy Secretary to the Governor for Housing and Finance. From 2003 to 2007 she held the position of Superintendent of Banks for the State of New York, a post to which she was nominated by Governor George Pataki and confirmed by the State Senate. In addition to Chairing the Board of the Hudson River Park Trust, Ms. Taylor serves on the Boards of Directors of Sotheby’s and Brookfield Properties. In addition, she chairs a commission for the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation concentrating on financially underserved communities. Ms. Taylor is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
 PETER VON DER AHE
Senior Associate & Director, Marcus & Millichap’s National Multi Housing Group
Moderator, Penn Station/8th Ave Panel
Peter Von Der Ahe is a senior associate in the Manhattan office of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services. He is also a director of the firm's National Multi Housing Group. He has established a reputation for bringing new investment capital into established and emerging New York markets.
Von Der Ahe is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York, and holds the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation. Von Der Ahe began his real estate career at Arthur Andersen in New York City, serving as a member of its real estate consulting group
 MATT VALLEY
Editor, National Real Estate Investor
Moderator, Times Square Panel
Matt Valley directs the coverage of National Real Estate Investor’s print edition as well as its expanding suite of online products. Matt signed on as editor of NREI in 2000 and previously served as editor of Midwest Real Estate News and Shopping Center World (now known as Retail Traffic). NREI is widely recognized for its no-nonsense analysis of trends in commercial real estate, with a special emphasis on tracking the capital flows. Under Matt’s direction, the magazine has won several regional and national journalism awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. In 2008, NREI was a finalist in the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Awards contest and will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Matt is based in Atlanta.
 GREGORY K. WILLIAMS
RA, Perkins + Will
Penn Station/8th Ave Panel
With twenty-five years of experience leading major practices across the country in a variety of roles, Gregory Williams brings unique skills and perspective to build and lead the CCC practice of the New York office. An architect and urban designer by training, Mr. Williams came to Perkins+Will from Trammel Crow in Dallas, where he was Chief Marketing Officer. In his distinguished career, he has also led Ernst & Young’s Corporate Real Estate practice, advised investment capital and technology companies as an independent consultant, served as Johnson Control’s Vice President for Business Development & Consulting, and led several distinguished architecture firms as principal or partner, including HOK, the Gruzen Partnership, and his own firm, Williams + Tanaka.
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