The deal makers.

Robert Alexander 

CBRE 

Robert Alexander is Chairman of the New York Tri-State Region of CB Richard Ellis. As a senior member of CBRE's executive management, Mr. Alexander is intimately involved in setting the strategic direction for the firm's commercial operations, as well as continuing to serve his roster of corporate clients.

A leader in the commercial real estate industry for more than two decades, Mr. Alexander is recognized not only for his consistently top levels of production, but as one of the most effective brokers in New York. Formerly the president of Insignia/ESG, Mr. Alexander was honored as the firm's top annual producer six times.

During his career, Mr. Alexander has arranged more than 50 million sq. ft. of real estate lease and sales transactions for such firms as Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank AG, JP Morgan Chase, Fleet Bank, KPMG, The Bank of America, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New York Life Insurance Company and The Bank of New York, to name a few.

Some of his more noteworthy accomplishments include representing Deutsche Bank in its purchase of the 1.6 million-sq.-ft. 60 Wall Street, brokering the acquisition of the 1.3 million-sq.-ft, lease of 277 Park Avenue from Credit Suisse First Boston to JP Morgan Chase and, also on behalf of JP Morgan Chase, negotiating a 1.2 million-sq.-ft, lease for a build-to-suit in Jersey City. For Lehman Brothers, he arranged a 700,000-sq.-ft. lease in One World Financial Center and a 410,000-sq.-ft, lease at 399 Park Avenue, in addition to the net lease of 1.0 million sq. ft. at London's Canary Wharf.

Corey J. Abdo

Winoker Realty Company

Corey J. Abdo recently joined Winoker Realty Company as a Senior Vice President after 17 years at Newmark & Company Real Estate as a Managing Director. Abdo joined Newmark & Company Real Estate, Inc. in April 1984 as a tenant representative. In the past 17 years, Mr. Abdo has successfully represented major corporations partnerships and organizations alike in numerous leasing transactions throughout the New York metropolitan area.

Abdo, along with Newmark's Barry Gosin, represented Chadbourne & Park for the renegotiation of their lease at 30 Rockefeller Plaza for 226,000 square feet, resulting in millions of dollars of savings to the partnership. He coordinated several special projects for Newmark Real Estate Services, including the design, development and execution of the firm's new statistical reporting and mapping information data bases. Mr. Abdo has also worked with the principals at Newmark on targeting major midtown properties for redevelopment, management and leasing.

Abdo is a member of The Real Estate Board of New York. Mr. Abdo holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Hofstra University.

Azita Aghravi

Eastern Consolidated

Azita Aghravi joined Eastern Consolidated in 1989 with over twelve years of experience in the sales and acquisitions of both commercial and residential properties in Manhattan. In 2004 alone, Aghravi sales, to date, totals are over $175 million. Since joining Eastern Consolidated Aghravi has closed over $300 million in building sales. Over the past few years, she has focused her attention on the sales of elevatored apartment buildings, walk-ups with strong retail components and vacant buildings for residential or hotel development.

Aghravi's notable transactions where she represented the seller or the buyer include: 12-story vacant pre-war apartment building at 823 Park Avenue for $60 million, 154 pre-war West Side condos and garage spaces sold for $56.09 million; 13 walk-up apartment buildings sold for $28.5 million; an elevatored apartment building with retail blockfront at Columbus and 86th Street that sold for $25 million; an elevatored office building on West 57th Street to be converted to hotel for $6 million net lease payment, with the asking price of $18 million; and a 15-story office building on West 45th Street that sold for $15 million, vacant lot at 517-521 West 42nd Street for $13.25 million, elevator loft building at 137-45 West 22nd Street for $10.4 million.

Aghravi is on the executive board of WIZO USA and is Vice President of the Sephardic Society of Manhattan. She has B.S. from New York University and is a member of The Real Estate Board of New York.

Eric Michael Anton

Eastern Consolidated

Eric Anton has completed over $750,000,000 of real estate transactions in NYC and across the country since joining Eastern Consolidated Anton also secured primary and mezzanine financing for his clients, including a $30,000,000 second mortgage for the acquisition of the Fresh Meadows Residential Complex in Queens.

Anton's experience as a real estate developer and construction manager enables him to provide clients with detailed analyses of complicated projects. He has been retained to market property exclusively for such owners as S.L. Green, Hartz Mountain Industries, Tishman Speyer Properties, First Union Real Estate Investment Trust, Jager Management, Lazard Freres and Goldman Sachs.

Before joining Eastern Consolidated, Anton was an executive at Starrett Corporation, responsible for the construction of a major mixed-use project in Long Island for the MTA. Anton was also successful in managing large-scale mixed-use projects with The Port Authority of NY/NJ and City of New York. Anton began his career as Associate Director of Marketing for Bovis Lendlease, the largest construction management firm in the US.

Anton graduated from Brown University and from Columbia University School of Architecture with a Masters in Real Estate Finance. He is a member of REBNY and a Director of the Seven Park Avenue Cooperative Corporation.

Karen Bellantoni

Robert K. Futterman & Associates, LLC 

Karen Bellantoni joined the retail real estate services firm of RKF in 1999, and has 17 years of experience in retail real estate and retail merchandising. She specializes in tenant and landlord representation.

Some of Bellantoni's recent transactions on behalf of retailers include securing six national locations for Solstice Sunglass Stores, including a space in the Mall of America; six NYC locations for Zales Corp.; and three popular locations for Kiehl's in Manhattan, West Hollywood and Houston. She exclusively represents all of L'Oreal's brands, as well as Dylan's Candy Bar in its nationwide expansion.

Bellantoni secured six high-profile Manhattan locations for L'Occitane en Provence, including a position in the new Time Warner Center. She has also placed Sisley/Benetton Kids, Bose Corp. and Clio Blue's first store in the Northeast in prime locations at Time Warner Center.

Bellantoni has an extensive background in retail merchandising, having served as retail director at Corporate Property Investors prior to joining RKF. While there she was responsible for all leasing activities for new retailers in CPI centers. Earlier, she was an import program designer for the May Co. of St. Louis, and a buyer and merchandiser for the 350 stores of Belk Stores of Charlotte, N.C.

She is a member of ICSC and REBNY, Where she serves on the Retail Committee.

Barry Bernstein

Winoker Realty Company

Barry Bernstein joined Winoker Realty Company, Inc. in 1991 and is currently a Senior Managing Director. He has been in the commercial Real Estate industry since 1984. Prior to joining Winoker, he was Vice President of Bernstein Real Estate from 1989-1991 and with Helmsley-Spear, Inc. from 1984-1988. Prior to entering into the Real Estate business, he was Vice President of Sales for Admire Fashions.

Bernstein has been exclusive managing and leasing agent for 1040 Avenue of the Americas for 11 years and was successful in turning the building into a major textile industry building. Over the last four years, he again transformed the property back into a major office building.

Bernstein was the exclusive leasing and managing agent of 1450 Broadway where he was successful in overseeing the total renovation of the building and the lease-up program, transforming a textile building into a high priced office and showroom building. Over 175,000 square feet had been leased to tenants such as St. John Knits, Liz Claiborne and Jones Apparel. Mr. Bernstein was also the exclusive leasing and managing agent for 341 West 38th Street from 1985 until he sold the building in 1997.

While at Bernstein Real Estate, Barry was directly involved in the management and leasing at 499 Seventh Avenue, a 170,000 square foot building which was transformed from a bridal building to a couture sportswear showroom building.

High profile transactions consummated by Bernstein include Dennis Publishing, Maxim Magazine, Stuff Magazine, Jones Apparel Group, Liz Claiborne, Tommy Hilfiger USA and Kenar Enterprises.

Bernstein attended the University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut with a concentration on Accounting and Business Administration. He is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York, the Loft and Secondary Office Building Committee, The United States Golf Association and the New Leadership Real Estate Division of Israel Bonds Association.

John B. Brod

PBS Realty Advisors

John B. Brod is a principal and founding partner of PBS Realty Advisors, LLC (PBS Realty), a boutique real estate firm offering commercial real estate advisory and execution services. With 25 years of commercial real estate experience, Brod devises customized real estate strategies that directly relate to clients' current and long-term growth initiatives.

Brod is committed to providing senior level attention to his clients, recognizing the strong impact real estate decisions have on a company's bottom line. Brod specializes in commercial office & retail tenant representation, agency services and lease negotiations and has represented well-known companies including Bloomberg L.P., Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, and Abercrombie & Fitch, among others.

Prior to establishing PBS Realty Advisors in 2001, Brod served as Senior Managing Director at Newmark & Company Real Estate, Inc., where he oversaw major tenant representation assignments for companies in the retail, law and financial industries. Before joining Newmark in 1996, Mr. Brod was professionally associated with S.L. Green and The Edward S. Gordon Company.

The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) has nominated Brod for its "Most Ingenious Deal of the Year" award on several occasions--in 1995 for Stroock & Stroock & Lavan at 180 Maiden Lane, in 1999 for a retail transaction on Madison Avenue for Donna Karan and again in 2005 for the Ecko retail transaction at the Times Square Theatre.

William G. Cohen 

Newmark & Company Real Estate

William Cohen has served as agent for over 20,000,000 SF of commercial space. He currently serves as exclusive agent for many prominent buildings, including 500 Fifth Avenue and Carnegie Hall Tower, known for their pre-built program. Cohen joined Newmark to start a promotional leasing division that has grown to more than 275 brokers/salespeople throughout 17 offices. Cohen currently sits on the Boards of the Grand Central District Management Association, Grand Central Partnership, Bryant Park Management Corporation and Manhattan Council--Boy Scouts of America. He's been actively involved with the Boy Scouts Greater NY Exploring Division since 1995 and was recently appointed chairman. He's a member of the YM/WREA. Cohen is a member of REBNY, where he serves as General Meetings Committee chair and is a member of its Grand Central Plaza District, Lower Manhattan District and Rental Conditions Committees. He is a member of CoreNet Global, International Council of Shopping Centers and the Skyscraper Museum, and frequently lectures at NYU's Real Estate Institute.

Faith Hope Consolo

Prudential Douglas Elliman

While there are many successful businesswomen today, not many can claim they transformed a city. However, Faith Hope Consolo, Chairman of Prudential Douglas Elliman's Retail Leasing and Sales Division, can. In representing and consulting for some of the world's most stylish national and international retailers and landlords, she has elevated the retail landscape of Manhattan and other major cities around the world.

During her stellar career, Ms. Consolo has brought many prominent retailers to Manhattan, including: Benetton, Versace, Bruno Magli, Paul Smith, Paloma Picasso, Godiva, Salvatore Ferragamo, Floris of London, Bally of Switzerland, Christofle, Creed, Manolo Blahnik, Wempe, Gant, Asprey, Fendi, Agatha, Christian Louboutin, Jimmy Choo, Calypso, Fresh, Zara, Bare Escentuals, and recently, Barneys Co-Op to the Upper West Side.

Ms. Consolo's resume reads like a "Who's Who" in fashion and real estate. She is an ongoing consultant to the Onassis Foundation, Richemont and LVMH, among others, in the acquisition and disposition of their retail properties.

She served as management consultant for Times Square and Penn Station's redevelopment, helping to mold these districts into the business and tourism hubs that they are today. Ms. Consolo was also the sole advisor to the Alliance for Downtown New York.

She even finds time to author an online publication bearing her name, "The Faith Report."

Prior to joining PDE in January 2005, she spent nearly 20 years as vice chairman of another firm, whose international division she founded, in Paris, in 1987.

John Dowling 

Executive Vice President (1937-2004)

Cushman & Wakefield

In his lifetime, John Dowling became one of the most influential brokerage professionals in Cushman & Wakefield's history, and one of the most prolific real estate brokerage professional in the history of the industry. He was a longtime member of the Board of Directors of Cushman & Wakefield, and later the Founder and President of Dowling & Company. A real estate visionary, he helped shape the skylines of cities throughout America. His dedication to clients, his expertise, and his ability to solve client challenges made him the real estate advisor to many Fortune 500 companies, including IBM, Texaco, MCI and GE. The extent of his success is almost mind-boggling--he was the No. 1 broker at Cushman & Wakefield 16 times in 20 years. An executive from Gulf Oil was once quoted in The Wall Street Journal saying "John is the finest real estate broker in the United States." He died in 2004 at the age of 66.

Jeff Dunne 

CBRE

Jeffrey Dunne has over 20 years of experience in the real estate investment banking business as an advisor and transactional agent. He is leader of a 10-person team that focuses on Metropolitan New York and second-tier cities in the eastern half of the United States, such as Tampa, Raleigh, Richmond and Nashville.

During his career, Mr. Dunne has closed transactions valued at over $6 billion. He has been awarded the Top Nationally Producing Investment Sales Broker in 1991 and 2004, the Second Highest Producing Investment Sales Broker nationally in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2003, and The Gale Company's Broker of the Year 2002. Additionally, Mr. Dunne has been a member of the Colbert Coldwell Circle Member (CB's top 3%) in 1986 and 1991 through 2004. Prior to joining CB Richard Ellis, Mr. Dunne headed a $125 million business unit for Procter & Gamble.

Steven M. Durels

SL Green Realty Corp.

As Director of Leasing at SL Green Realty Corp., Steven Durels directs the leasing effort for Manhattan's largest commercial landlord. Overseeing a portfolio of 29 buildings with 17.5 million square feet of office space he routinely completes nearly 300 leasing transactions per year and has structured many of the largest and most complex leases in firm's history. He joined SL Green Realty Corp. in 1998 after 16 years at Helmsley-Noyes where he was responsible for all leasing, management and operations of a 2.5 million square foot portfolio.

Robert B. Emden

PBS Realty Advisors, LLC

Robert B. Emden is a principal of PBS Realty Advisors, LLC ("PBS Realty"), a boutique real estate firm offering commercial real estate advisory and execution services. With more than 35 years experience, both as tenant representative and as a landlord's leasing agent, Emden is a well-known commercial real estate veteran with superior expertise in Manhattan's Plaza District.

Emden has negotiated in excess of $3 billion in lease obligations for major corporations including General Motors Corporation and Estee Lauder, Inc, as well as investment banks and private equity firms such as Ripplewood Holdings, Reservoir Capital, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Mr. Emden leverages his extensive industry knowledge and client base to enhance PBS Realty's presence in New York's Plaza District and across the nation.

Emden began his career in 1972 as the first associate of Edward S. Gordon & Company, where he ultimately became Senior Vice President and stockholder. Prior to joining PBS Realty, Mr. Emden most recently served as Vice Chairman of USI Real Estate Advisors, LLC, where he led Tenant Services in New York.

Emden is a member of the Young Men's and Women's Real Estate Association and the Real Estate Board of New York. He is also a Trustee of the American Friends of Hebrew University and is active in the Israeli Bond Organization, The United Jewish Appeal and Concerned Parents for AIDS Research.

David A. Falk

Newmark & Company Real Estate

David Falk joined Newmark as a senior managing director in 1996. In January of 2000, he was named executive managing director and made a partner in the firm. Falk's business is centered on both tenant and landlord representation in the acquisition and disposition of office space. Within the last two years, he has been involved in the leasing of more than 1,500,000 SF of space.

On the tenant side, Falk has represented MFS Worldcom (75,000 SF at 111 Eighth Avenue), Major League Baseball (70,000 SF at Chelsea Market), Pace University (75,000 SF expansion at 161 William Street), WebMD (65,000 SF at 825 Third Avenue), eFinanceworks (100,000 sf at 601 West 26th Street), and Speigel, Inc. (100,000 SF build to suit facility in Toronto).

Additionally, Falk is exclusive leasing agent for many prestigious buildings, including 1251 Avenue of the Americas, 230 and 237 Park Avenue, Chelsea Market and 1700 Broadway.

Prior to joining Newmark, Falk was employed by Williams Real Estate Co., Inc. for 13 years where he was one of the firm's top producing brokers and a member of its Management Committee.

Falk graduated from New York University in 1982 and holds a BS in Marketing.

Richard Farley 

RFR Realty

As Senior Vice President and Director of Leasing for RFR Realty, Richard Farley is responsible for leasing the six million square feet that comprise RFR's office and retail portfolio. Overseeing a staff of five fulltime leasing executives, Mr. Farley and his team have completed 3,000 leases totaling more than five million square feet in the seven years he has been at RFR.

Farley entered the real estate business 25 years ago as a broker representing tenants. He became an owner's agent in 1983 while at Madison Newmark, where he managed SL Green's leasing portfolio. In 1989, he joined SL Green, which had become a powerful Manhattan landlord, having converted more than 20 loft buildings into office space. Mr. Farley served as the head of SL Green's leasing department for a five-million-square-foot portfolio for seven years. Impressed with Mr. Farley's record of achievement at SL Green, RFR Realty tapped him to oversee its rapidly expanding commercial portfolio in 1997. Just some of the prime properties under Mr. Farley's purview today include 390 Park Avenue (Lever House), 375 Park Avenue (Seagram Building), 17 State Street and 2 Herald Square.

Career highlights include: Wachovia Bank's 175,000-square-foot lease at RFR's 375 Park Avenue--Mr. Farley and the RFR leasing team as well as outside counsel from Cushman & Wakefield arranged this headquarters lease in late 2004.

Cornell University's 15-year, 70,000-square-foot lease at SL Green's 16 East 34th Street--Mr. Farley negotiated this profitable lease on behalf of SL Green in 1992, when the leasing market had significantly eroded.

International advertising firm Publicis' 114,500-square-foot, 15-year lease at RFR's then newly repositioned 2 Herald Square, signed December 2000.

Mercy College's 20-year, 55,000-square-foot lease at RFR's 2 Herald Square, signed October 2001 for the final block of office space then available at the property.

Farley serves on the Real Estate Board of New York's Grand Central, Plaza District, and Leasing Agents Committees. He is also a member and a former board member of the Young Men's/Women's Real Estate Association.

Howard Fiddle

CBRE

Howard Fiddle is actively involved in all aspects of owner representation and possesses a thorough knowledge of commercial real estate, marketing and finance. He has extensive transactional experience representing both major landlords as well as corporate tenants. Over the last five years, Mr. Fiddle has completed transactions comprising over five million square feet. He has been a two-time recipient of the Robert T. Lawrence Memorial Award given annually by The Real Estate Board of New York for a transaction that represents exceptional creativity and importance to New York City. Mr. Fiddle is regularly quoted in several leading periodicals including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Prior to CBRE, Mr. Fiddle worked as a Certified Public Accountant for Ernst & Young and as a Project Director for Boston Properties.

Barry Fishbach

Robert K. Futterman & Associates, LLC

Barry Fishbach joined the retail real estate services firm of RKF in 1998, and has more than 18 years of real estate experience. He specializes in retail leasing in the boroughs of New York, downtowns and suburbs of New Jersey, and in investment sales in the greater New York area. Fishbach is currently marketing more than 450,000 SF of retail space for lease throughout the New York metropolitan region.

Recent transactions include the 83,500 SF lease with Burlington Coat Factory at the 255,000-square-foot West Shore Plaza. Fishbach completed a 31,000 SF, long-term lease with PSK Supermarkets at the 115,000 SF retail portion of Restoration Plaza in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn to operate a Foodtown supermarket. He also arranged three leases at the former Caldor Department Store in the Bronx, including a 35,000 SF lease with PC Richard & Son and a 35,000 SF lease with Bally Total Fitness.

Fishbach's recent sales include the 141,599 SF Flatbush Center in Brooklyn for $35.5 million on behalf of Forest City Ratner; a 11,000 SF retail condominium at 49 West 64th Street in Manhattan for $7 million; and the former 265,000 SF Caldor Department store on Fordham Road in the Bronx for $25.5 million on behalf of Vornado Realty Trust.

Fishbach is a licensed real estate broker and a member of REBNY and ICSC.

Ira Z. Fishman

Winoker Realty Company

Joining Winoker Realty Company, Inc. in 1998, Ira Z. Fishman, Executive Vice President, has helped to greatly enhance the overall operations and growth of the firm, and is responsible for the expansion and development of Winoker's leasing division. In this position, Fishman specializes in commercial real estate brokerage. With over 33 years in the real estate industry, Fishman brings to the table an unparalleled expertise and first-hand knowledge of Manhattan's commercial market.

Fishman began his real estate career at Newmark & Co. where he learned the business from the ground up. Over the initial 26 years in the industry and as a partner at the firm, he has acted as leasing/managing agent for nine commercial loft buildings with over 3,500,000 square feet of rentable space and headed up a team of five associates.

In a typical year Fishman was involved in over one hundred leasing transactions. In addition to negotiating the terms of the leases, he was responsible for dealing with the tenants' attorneys and ultimately consummating the deals. Fishman was also involved in the acquisition of many loft buildings and oversaw the redevelopment of these properties. Overseeing all phases of the process, he converted 200 Varick Street, a 420,000 sq. ft. printing building into a first class office property and 420 West 45th Street, a 62,500 sq. ft. manufacturing loft into a high tech industry building. Currently at Winoker Realty Company, Fishman is in the process, as agent, of converting 250 West 39th Street into a prime Fashion Showroom building.

Graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers College, Mr. Fishman received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. He is Chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York's Loft and Secondary Office Committee, sits on the Board of Directors of the Fashion Center Business Improvement District (BID), and is a former secretary of the Young Men's/ Women's Real Estate Association of New York.

Benjamin Fox

Newmark Retail LLC

Benjamin Fox is one of the most respected retail real estate brokers in New York. Mr. Fox co-founded New Spectrum Realty Services in 1987 and helped turn the company into one of New York City's leading retail real estate brokerage firms. Newmark & Company acquired New Spectrum in May 2000 in a deal that created the largest retail real estate brokerage firm in the City.

Throughout his career Mr. Fox has demonstrated an uncanny ability to identify trends in emerging neighborhoods around the city. For example, he secured AMC Movie Theatres as an anchor tenant on West 42nd Street, an 180,000 sq. ft. transaction that served as the catalyst for further development along West 42nd Street. Additionally, Mr. Fox was the leasing agent for Harlem USA, 275,000 sq. ft. retail and entertainment development on West 125th Street with tenants such as The Disney Store, Old Navy, Modell's, New York Sports Club and Sony/Magic Johnson Theatres.

Among the scores of retail tenants Mr. Fox has represented include The Gap, Dean & DeLuca, McDonald's, Victoria's Secret, AMC Entertainment, Ann Taylor, Seaman's Furniture, Men's Wearhouse, P.C. Richard & Son, and Equinox Fitness Centers.

Fox is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York's Board of Governors, co-chair of REBNY's Seminar Committee on Domestic Markets, and the recipient of the Board's 2003 Louis Smadbeck Broker Recognition Award.

Robert K. Futterman

Robert K. Futterman & Associates, LLC

Robert K. Futterman established RKF, a national real estate firm specializing in retail leasing and investment sales, in 1998, and he serves as chairman and CEO. His expertise in landlord and tenant representation, new construction, leasing, sales and market analysis is unrivaled in the retail marketplace. This year, Futterman spearheaded the national growth of his company, expanding around three new divisions and opening offices in Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

Since its founding, RKF has completed retail deals totaling 7 million square feet and $4.4 billion in value. Futterman himself has completed transactions totaling more than $3 billion throughout his career. His client list includes many of the nation's premier retailers and an equally impressive roster of developers, landlords and institutions. In the past year alone, he has completed transactions on behalf of Barnes & Noble, Banana Republic, World Wrestling Entertainment and Adidas.

Over the years, Futterman has been instrumental in the revitalization of several of New York's most significant retail locations, including the renaissance of New York's Union Square South, Times Square, Herald Square, Columbus Circle and SoHo.

Futterman is a noted writer and lecturer on the subject of retail real estate. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Real Estate Board of New York, the International Council of Shopping Centers, the New Leadership Cabinet of Israel Bonds Real Estate Division and the United Jewish Appeal.

Michael Geoghegan 

CBRE

Michael Geoghegan is co-head of the Consulting Group at CB Richard Ellis' Midtown Manhattan office. His accomplishments include a wide variety of commercial leasing, sales, consulting and financial advisory assignments. Over the past five years, Mr. Geoghegan has been responsible for arranging leasing transactions exceeding five million square feet. With a strong financial background and a comprehensive understanding of the economic and financial statement implications of complex real estate transactions, Mr. Geoghegan has creatively structured numerous transactions to accomplish a variety of goals on behalf of his clients.

Previously, Mr. Geoghegan was a principal with the Trammell Crow Company, responsible for development, transaction structuring, sales and financing of commercial projects throughout the Mid-Atlantic.

Brad Gerla

CBRE

Brad Gerla started out in the commercial real estate business in 1981 and has risen over the years to become one of New York's top leasing brokers specializing in the Downtown market. He is consistently sought out by Downtown landlords, tenants and civic leaders to advise them on their current assets, future real estate requirements and economic issues facing Downtown.

Recent transactions for 2003 have earned Mr. Gerla the CB Richard Ellis award for "Top Producing Broker Downtown," as well as being hailed "Power Broker 2003" by CoStar/CPN for being ranked among the top 25 brokers based on leasing transaction volume.

In addition to his work as a broker, Mr. Gerla has made many significant contributions to the real estate community. He joined YM/WREA in 1986; was Membership Chairman in 1992; and Governor in 1995. In 1996, he was elected Chairman by his peers of the prestigious YM/WREA, and four years later he received both the "Young Man of the Year" award by the same organization, in conjunction with REBNY, and the "Industry Involvement" award by Insignia/ESG. He is currently Chairman of the REBNY Leasing Brokers Committee and is Vice Chairman for the State of Israel Bonds.

Andrew Goldberg

CBRE

Andrew Goldberg is an Executive Vice President with the New York Tri-State Region Retail Services Team. He was previously an Executive Managing Director with the Insignia/ESG Retail Group, having been with the firm since 1991.

Recognized as one of the leading professionals in his field, Mr. Goldberg has developed an unmatched reputation for assisting major specialty retailers in satisfying their real estate requirements. As tenant's representative, he represented Hickey-Freeman for a new flagship boutique at 666 Fifth Avenue, a complex transaction that involved relocating the lobby of this landmark structure. He represented Celine (a division of LVMH) at 667 Madison Avenue and Tourneau in the negotiations for a 15,000-square-foot midtown Manhattan flagship store at Madison Avenue and 57th Street. He also represented British retailer Thomas Pink in its negotiations for its 520 Madison Avenue flagship store, its first in the U.S. In addition, he has represented Bulgari in transactions in New York, Beverly Hills, Chicago, Aspen, San Francisco, Honolulu and Palm Beach. He was instrumental in helping renew and expand Bally flagship stores in San Francisco's Union Square and Beverly Hills; represented Max Mara in New York & Chicago; and represented Crabtree & Evelyn and Godiva at multiple locations in Manhattan.

Scott Gottlieb/Michael Laginestra

CBRE

With 18 years of experience in commercial real estate, Scott L. Gottlieb has distinguished himself as one of the industry's outstanding professionals. A Vice Chairman of CB Richard Ellis, Mr. Gottlieb has made his mark by developing strategic solutions to real estate issues for some of the leading companies in the United States.

Michael Laginestra is also a Vice Chairman of CB Richard Ellis in Manhattan. Mr. Laginestra is known for developing and executing innovative solutions to complex real estate problems. In 29 years in commercial real estate, he has negotiated transactions totaling over 30 million sq. ft.

In 1994 and 1995, Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Laginestra played an integral role in shaping and implementing a consolidation and expansion strategy for Viacom in the wake of its purchase of Paramount Communications and Blockbuster Entertainment. This resulted in the negotiation of over 1.5 million sq. ft. of leases for Viacom in an 18-month period. Mr. Laginestra and Mr. Gottlieb's work on behalf of Viacom earned them the Real Estate Board of New York's "Most Ingenious Deal of the Year" for 1994--the industry's most prestigious honor. In 1995, their team earned REBNY's Robert T. Lawrence Memorial Award for a series of transactions, aggregating to 300,000 sq. ft., on behalf of FCB/Leber Katz Partners, General Motors Corporation and others. In 2002, Mr. Laginestra and Mr. Gottlieb went on to earn the NAIOP Award for the Acquisition of the Year for the sale of Texaco's 790,000-sq.-ft. headquarters to Morgan Stanley.

Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Laginestra have also been active in landlord representation, serving as owner's agent for such New York City office buildings as 150 East 42nd Street (former Mobil headquarters), 650 Madison Avenue, 909 Third Avenue, 100 Broadway, 101 East 52nd Street, 590 Madison Avenue and 888 Seventh Avenue.

Mark Granata

RFR Realty

As RFR Realty's President and founding member, Mark Granata's mandate is to provide the highest quality management, construction and leasing opportunities for the 10,000,000 square-foot RFR portfolio of commercial, residential and retail properties.

With more than 30 years experience in real estate, Granata joined Aby Rosen and Michael Fuchs at RFR in the early 1990s, when the duo was entering the Manhattan marketplace buying and refurbishing properties that include Lever House, 375 Park Avenue, 2 Herald Square and 17 State Street. In addition, RFR has, in partnership with others, developed such luxurious Manhattan residential properties as The Empire, The Seville and The Impala. Granata has managed the construction and renovation process for each new and acquired RFR property.

Prior to joining RFR, Granata was president of Resources Property Management Corp., a Manhattan-based third-party management firm. Under his direction, the firm managed 25, 000,000 SF of office and retail space in 46 states.

Throughout his three-decade career, Granata has managed assets valued in excess of $15 billion. He has overseen construction and renovation for $5 billion of real estate. He has supervised the leasing of approximately 15,000,000 SF of office space with a total rent value of more than $6 billion.

Granata is a Certified Shopping Center Manager with the International Council of Shopping Centers. He is also a member of REBNY, ULI and BOMA.

Wendy Greenbaum

Warburg Realty Partnership

Wendy Greenbaum, began her real estate career in 1980, and joined Warburg Realty Partnership (previously Ashforth Warburg Associates) as one of the original eight partners in 1991. Her membership in this elite group combined with her 25 years in the industry, has warranted her reputation as a formidable dealmaker with enormous skill and experience. Year after year she's among the top five performers at Warburg Realty, a success her client's attribute to the direct approach and clear understanding of financial intricacies, enabling her to guide them through the most complex transactions.

Not surprisingly the majority of Ms. Greenbaum's new business can be attributed to referrals, generated by a large network of satisfied customers who time and time again refer to her as the consummate professional.

In 2004, Ms. Greenbaum was the top performer for the firm, representing buyers and sellers in more than 20 real estate transactions throughout Manhattan.

R. Stuart Gross

Eastern Consolidated

Stuart Gross joined Eastern Consolidated in 2002 after a long, varied career in real estate. He brings a broad set of experiences and skills to the Eastern Consolidated team. Gross started his career with Arthur Andersen as a CPA. In 1989, he joined the Real Estate Advisory Services Group of Andersen, where he was a partner for seven years. He was Engagement Partner with the Resolution Trust Corporation, providing due diligence and sales advisory services for over a billion dollars of real estate and loan portfolio sales, and was instrumental in the formation of the burgeoning CMBS market with the initial structured finance transactions with the RTC.

During the early 1990s, Gross was advisor to real estate investors and governments around the world regarding distressed real estate and financial markets, including Sweden, Finland, Norway, Japan, Venezuela and Mexico.

In 1997, Gross formed an advisory services firm and consummated substantial transactions, including the largest real estate deal in the history of Sweden. He also represented the government of Egypt in the privatization of state-owned hotel portfolios.

In 1998, Gross formed an investment firm to acquire real estate in the emerging markets of Central Europe, redeveloping over 125,000 SF of CBD properties and acquiring a portfolio of prime CBD land for greenfields development.

Deborah L. Gutoff

Eastern Consolidated

Deborah Gutoff is a prominent commercial sales broker with over 16 years of experience in the acquisitions and sales of both commercial and residential properties in NYC. She has closed well over $500 million in building sales during her tenure at Eastern Consolidated, which she joined in 1986.

Over the past 10 years, Gutoff has focused her attention on the sales of elevatored multi-family apartment buildings, walk-ups with strong retail components, and bulk packages of sponsor-owned cooperative and condominium apartments. As an adjunct to her sales activity, Gutoff has served as a consultant to numerous institutions and universities in their on-going quest for student housing. In the past two years alone, Gutoff has closed seven leasing transactions with three prominent NYC-based universities.

Gutoff is a longstanding member of the Sales Brokers Committee of REBNY. She has the distinction of being named Eastern Consolidated's Broker of the Year three times, most recently in 1996. Prior to joining Eastern Consolidated, Gutoff worked as a litigation attorney at two Manhattan law firms. She graduated cum laude in European History from Cornell University in 1976 and received her Juris Doctor degree from Hofstra University School of Law in 1979.

Woody Heller

Studley

In October 2003, Woody Heller joined Studley as executive managing director and head of its Capital Transactions Group Since then, Heller has handled several of this year's highest profile transactions in the New York investment sales market, the two most notable being the recent sale of 125 Park Avenue for a GE subsidiary and the sale of a 45-percent interest in the McGraw Hill building at 1221 Avenue of the Americas--for which Heller was awarded the Real Estate Board of New York's Most Ingenious Deal of the Year Award.

Before joining Studley, Mr. Heller spent most of his 20-plus year career at Jones Lang LaSalle followed by one year with Insignia/ESG (now CB Richard Ellis) as an executive managing director.

In addition to the two mentioned above, Heller's most notable transactions include: the sale of the notes and mortgage encumbering the Chrysler Building in 1997; the sale of the 1.6-million-square-foot CitiGroup Center in Manhattan in 2001 for $725 million; and in 1997, the net lease of New York's Rhinelander Mansion to Polo Ralph Lauren for a then record $1,300-per-square-foot.

In addition to representing building owners with their investment property sales, Mr. Heller has also structured participating and/or convertible mortgages, equity joint ventures and note sales, the most renowned of which is the 1997 sale of the notes and mortgage encumbering the Chrysler Building.

Though Mr. Heller primarily works in the New York market, he has also represented clients nationally in Chicago, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Florida; Ohio and Indiana.

During his career, Mr. Heller has closed transactions totaling approximately $5 billion, representing more than 28 million square feet.

Mr. Heller earned a BA from Stanford University and graduated from the diploma program at the Real Estate Institute of NYU. He is an active member of REBNY, ULI, YM/ WREA, and the National Realty Conference.

Scott J. Klau

Newmark & Company Real Estate

Scott Klau has supervised marketing, leasing and sales of over 10,000,000 SF of commercial space throughout Manhattan. Since joining Newmark in 1998, Klau has been involved in owner representation and played an integral role in many of the firm's most prominent leasing successes.

Klau has represented the owners of numerous prestigious buildings in NYC, including Goldman Sachs, GE Capital, The Praedium Group and Broadway Management. As part of the leasing team for Carnegie Hall Tower Klau contributed to one of the biggest success stories of the 1990s. Representing the owner of Trump Tower, he helped bring occupancy to approximately 98% and procured leases for more than 40% of the property.

Currently, Klau serves as exclusive leasing agent for the Government of Singapore at CitySpire, where he has helped maintain an occupancy level of over 90%. He also represents GE Capital Corp. at 125 Park Avenue and Goldman Sachs at 1185 Avenue of the Americas. Klau represented Max Capital in its acquisition of UFT's three-building portfolio on Park Avenue South for residential conversion.

Klau is a member of REBNY and fundraises for UJA-Federation and Israel Bonds. He graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelor's in Business Management, and studied at NYU's Real Estate Institute.

Robert Knakal

Massey Knakal Realty Services

Robert 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, Knakal was hired by Coldwell Banker Commercial 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 Coldwell as an assistant to a senior broker. The following year, Knakal started as a full time investment property specialist with Coldwell's midtown Manhattan office.

Knakal collaborated with Paul J. Massey Jr. to establish a property sales group in Manhattan. They served as co-directors for the new specialization at Coldwell and in 1986, shared Coldwell's prestigious top salesman award in New York. They retained this top ranking until they left the firm in November 1988 to start their own business--Massey Knakal Realty Services.

To date, Knakal has been responsible for the sale of more than 600 buildings worth over $2 billion. His civic involvements are numerous and are highlighted by his presidency of the 147-year-old Prescott Foundation for Children, which makes grants to disadvantaged children for educational purposes. He is also the president and member of the board of directors of Ice Hockey in Harlem, an after school program that allows children to participate in hockey if they attend special classroom sessions to supplement their education.

Knakal was previously named to Crain's New York Business's Forty Under Forty/New York Rising Stars list for his outstanding achievement in the New York City business community. He was also named a top dealmaker by Real Estate New York and in 2002, along with Broker Mark Massey, won the prestigious Robert T. Lawrence Award in the Real Estate Board of New York's Most Ingenious Deal of the Year contest for their nine-year assemblage of the easterly blockfront of Second Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets. In 2004, Knakal won the same award for his sale of the Gotham Book Mart building on West 47th Street in Manhattan.

In 2003, Knakal handled the two largest portfolio sales in New York City. The Manhattan portfolio consisted of six elevatored buildings in prime Manhattan locations and contained 450 apartments that sold for $102,000,000. The Simkowitz portfolio consisted of 786 apartments in 12 Northern Manhattan and Bronx buildings with a sale price of $109,000,000. In 2004, Mr. Knakal handled the sale of Massey Knakal's largest multi-family portfolio to date. The Macklowe portfolio consisted of 345 apartments and 17 stores in seven elevatored buildings. The sale price was $179,000,000.

Knakal and Massey were named New York's Top Entrepreneurs by Crain's New York Business in 2003, a prestigious recognition out of scores of nominations. Also that year, The Real Deal magazine listed Massey Knakal as one of the New York's best boutique firms. In 2004, Knakal was a featured speaker at Columbia University's Real Estate Roundtable Series. He is a frequent guest lecturer at New York University and also teaches continuing education classes for the Real Estate Board of New York and Esther Muller's Continuing Education Academy. In addition, he teaches a class on real estate at The Learning Annex.

In 2004, Knakal was recognized for his work with underprivileged children by being named the recipient of The Catalog For Giving's prestigious Adult Urban Hero Award.

Susan Kurland

CBRE

Susan Kurland is an Executive Vice President with the New York Tri-State Region Retail Services Group. Prior to CB Richard Ellis, Ms. Kurland was Executive Director of Retail Brokerage Services with Cushman & Wakefield's New York office, where she had been since 1998.

Kurland is recognized as one of the top retail real estate professionals in the industry. While at Cushman & Wakefield, she consistently achieved recognition as their highest grossing national retail broker, and earned the distinction of being the firm's senior-most retail brokerage professional.

During her more than 15 years in the industry, Ms. Kurland has been instrumental in helping many of the world's top international retailers enter the US market. In addition to her tenant representation experience, she also specializes in developing local, national and international retail projects, and providing retail consulting and advisory services to both retailers and property owners.

Kurland is a two-time Real Estate Board of New York award winner, having won the 1999 "Deal That Most Significantly Impacts a Neighborhood" Award for the 36,000-square-foot H&M transaction at 640 Fifth Avenue, followed up in 2002 by the prestigious Most Creative Retail Deal of the Year Award for arranging the much-publicized 45,200-square-foot American Girl transaction at 609 Fifth Avenue.

David Levinson

CBRE

David W. Levinson has been responsible for real estate transactions valued at more than $10 billion. Mr. Levinson supervises project consulting, brokerage, strategic planning and corporate operations. He is uniquely able to focus and coordinate many disciplines and marshal them to provide major clients with the benefit of a full and targeted complement of expert advice. During the course of Mr. Levinson's career, he has also represented owners of over nine million sq. ft. of office space as the leasing and managing agent.

David has been named one of New York's Top Real Estate Brokers by Crain's and has appeared as keynote speaker for The National Realty Association, NACORE (National Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives) and The Real Estate Board of New York. David has appeared on CNN's "Money Line Show" and "Morning Business Report" on WBIS TV, The Wall Street Journal's Business TV Network. He has been quoted in and written articles for some of New York's most important periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Post, Manhattan Lawyer and Crain's New York Business.

Paul J. Massey, Jr.

Massey Knakal Realty Services

Paul Massey was born in Boston, Massachusetts where he attended Roxbury Latin School. He graduated from Colgate University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1983.

After graduation, Massey began his career at Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate Services in Midtown Manhattan. He began as head of the market research department, then as an investment sales broker.

Massey collaborated with Robert Knakal at Coldwell to establish a property sales group in Manhattan. They served as co-directors for the firm's new specialization and in 1986, shared Coldwell's prestigious top salesman award in New York. They retained this top ranking until they left the firm in November 1988 to start their own business--Massey Knakal Realty Services.

Massey resides in Larchmont, N.Y. with his wife Gretchen, son, Paul III, and daughters, Sarah and Greta.

David Maurer-Hollaender

CBRE

David Maurer-Hollaender is a Vice Chairman of CB Richard Ellis. He previously led CBRE's Consulting Division. His 20 years of experience has been highlighted by a wide variety of commercial real estate- related consulting, advisory, and acquisition and disposition assignments throughout the United States. This practice consists of exclusive representation of some of the world's largest corporate services companies as well as institutional property owners for leasing, purchase, financing and sales.

Maurer-Hollaender has been involved in transactions with a variety of companies including Sony, as he designed, structured and implemented one of the country's largest "off balance sheet" headquarters transactions for 1 million sq. ft. at 550 Madison Avenue, New York; Winstar Communications, in a 700,000-sq.-ft, build-to-suit campus in Reston, Virginia; True North Communications, in a 110,000-sq.-ft, lease in San Francisco; and Bankers Trust Company, in a 400,000-sq.-ft. lease in New York.

Lewis Miller

CBRE

Lewis Miller is a Vice Chairman of CB Richard Ellis. He was previously an Executive Vice President in the Consulting Group, and as a member of the Consulting Group's Operating Committee, he dedicated significant time and resources to shaping the company's long-term strategic direction.

With a strong financial background that encompasses investment banking and accounting expertise, and a deep understanding of the economic and financial statement implications of complex real estate transactions, Miller has creatively structured numerous transactions to accomplish a variety of goals on behalf of corporate clients. His ability to understand the implications of a transaction for all parties enables him to develop effective negotiating strategies on behalf of his clients.

Over the past five years, Mr. Miller has been responsible for arranging leasing transactions totalling in excess of 10 million sq. ft. In 2004, he represented Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in its relocation to 140,000 sq. ft. at Times Square Tower and disposition of its existing space. In addition, he represented Milberg Weiss in negotiating an early renewal and expansion for 125,000 sq. ft. at One Penn Plaza.

In 2003, Miller represented Sidley Austin Brown & Wood in its 500,000-sq.-ft, headquarters transaction in Chicago as well as Bryan Cave in its New York consolidation with Robinson Silverman. In 2002, he represented AIG in its 540,000-sq.-ft. transaction at 80 Pine Street, the largest transaction completed in Manhattan in 2002. In 2001, Mr. Miller represented Sidley Austin Brown & Wood in its consolidation to 787 Seventh Avenue and Thelen Reid & Priest in its relocation to 875 Third Avenue.

Fernando Murillo

Equis Corporation

Fernando Murillo brings 20 years of commercial real estate experience and a primary focus on tenant representation to the leadership of the NY office of Equis Corporation. Since joining Equis in 1999, Murillo has executed transaction advisory services totaling more than 2.5 million SF and with an aggregate value in excess of $500,000,000 on behalf of corporations that include NCO Group, Inc., GlaxoSmithKlein, Xerox and DaimlerChrysler.

Murillo's uncompromising commitment to his clients and his ability to consistently deliver results has enabled him to convert business transactions into long-term relationships. As a trusted advisor to publicly traded NCO Group, he has provided strategic, transaction and integrated real estate solutions throughout the US and Canada. In addition, he has extensive experience working with international clients and has conducted business in many parts of Asia and Latin America.

Among his other accomplishments Murillo led three opportunity analyses that resulted in strategic area consolidations across the country for a client, reducing their total square feet under lease by 24% and occupancy costs by 25%. Murillo managed the tri-state area portfolio for a Fortune 200 technology firm, including the repositioning of 24/7 logistics and digital production facilities in Manhattan. He served as the leader and single point of contact to client with a 100+ location portfolio and successfully tailored and implemented their integrated services model including transaction advisory, project services and data management services.

Prior to joining Equis, Murillo was a Senior Managing Director at NY-based Murray Hill Properties for seven years, and earlier served for five years as a broker with Edward S. Gordon, now part of CBRE.

Audrey Novoa

Murray Hill Properties

For over 30 years, Audrey Novoa has been a highly regarded real estate professional in the New York City commercial real estate market. Starting in 1972, she headed the leasing department at Williams Real Estate. In 1979, Audrey joined the Brokerage Division of the firm where she ultimately rose to the level of Executive Managing Director and only female member of the Management Committee. Today, she continues representing owners and tenants at Murray Hill Properties.

Throughout her career, Audrey represented owners of major office buildings in the leasing and managing of more than five million square feet of space as well as highly prominent Tenants such as Loews Corporation and Sotheby's, Inc. in the acquisition and disposition of their office space. She is best known for her two decades of work with 60 Hudson Street, 1 Park Avenue, 810 Seventh Avenue and 79 Madison Avenue.

Because of her experience on both sides of the negotiating table, Audrey has proven to be an asset to landlords and tenants alike. Her clients respect her abilities and know that their interests are in good hands.

Anthony J. Peters

Cushman & Wakefield

No one has earned the distinction of being New York's "Mr. Downtown" more than Anthony J. Peters. His strong belief in the Financial District as a major business center, and his leadership by example in arranging the leasing and development of millions of square feet downtown when prophets of gloom predicted its demise, forever cemented his larger-than-life reputation. Yet even that nickname doesn't fully capture his business and personal achievements in the history of real estate. Mr. Peters was formerly President, as well as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cushman & Wakefield. He embarked on his real estate career in 1934 at age 17. He served for three years during World War II in the U.S. Army Air Force, and in the early 1950s became manager of Cushman & Wakefield's Wall Street office. Over the next two decades he became one of the most accomplished real estate brokers ever. In 1966, he set a brokerage record of 3.3 million square feet of office leases in one year, and in his career he was involved in at least 15 leases of more than 200,000 square feet, including four one-million-square-foot deals. His mark on the skylines of cities around the continent still stands in plain view in the shape of buildings such as Sears Tower, 55 Water St., One and Four New York Plaza, Two Broadway, the General Motors Buildings, 20, 60 and 80 Broad Street, among many other project on which he served as a development consultant. He currently resides with his wife Irene L. Peters in Pelican Preserve, in Ft. Myers, Fla.

Vincent J. Peters

Cushman & Wakefield

Vincent J. Peters has spearheaded the initial lease-up of more than 20 million-sf of commercial office space throughout the nation. A U.S. Marine from 1942 to 1946, Mr. Peters' prominence is associated with his leadership role at Cushman & Wakefield in the 1970s, and his transactions involving U.S. icons such as Sears Tower in Chicago, which he helped establish. In his long business career, he has helped shape skylines and revive cities coast to coast. He joined Cushman & Wakefield in 1940 and became a broker in 1949. He was named Vice President in 1955, Director in 1959, Executive Vice President in 1972, President and Chief Executive and Operating Officer in 1976, and Chairman of the Board in 1981. He formed V.J. Peters Associates in 1982 prior to the merger with Huberth & Huberth and the subsequent formation of Huberth & Peters. In 1989, Mr. Peters joined veteran owners/developers Melvyn and Robert Kaufman establishing SageGroup Associates Inc., a Manhattan commercial real estate leasing, consulting and sales firm, where he served as a Vice Chairman. In 1996, after an absence of 14 years, Mr. Peters rejoined Cushman & Wakefield where he is focusing on brokerage, consulting and advisory services.

Adelaide Polsinelli

Besen & Associates, Inc.

Adelaide Polsinelli has been a consistent top producer over the past 20 years, beginning her career selling co-op and condo apartments for Century 21. To date, Polsinetli has been involved in over $2 billion worth of real estate sales, including over 400 buildings. An expert in putting intricate deals together and maximizing returns, Polsinelli continues to blaze a trail as a woman of influence in the real estate community. With superior market knowledge and visionary approach, Polsinelli is a woman in high demand. She is a font of historical and analytic information and thrives on monitoring and forecasting trends. She has an uncanny ability to spot opportunities. Known as a problem-solver and an expert in the investment sales arena, Polsinelli continues to turn out record-breaking sale prices in every neighborhood.

The challenge of staying ahead of the curve, combined with her passion and tenacity, motivates and exhilarates Polsinelli as she continues to be a driving-force in NYC's real estate world. Among her noteworthy accomplishments are: the sale of the "Chemist Club" to Morris Moinian, whose vision brought us the prestigious Dylan Hotel; the "Le Figaro Cafe" building in the heart of Greenwich Village; The Chesterfield condominiums on the Upper West Side; The Interior Design Building on the Upper East Side; and the "Leg's Diamond" Strip Club in Midtown.

Last summer, Polsinelli was honored with the "Clarissa Award" for outstanding community service, by the Capuchin Food Pantries. Polsinelli graduated from New York University and also holds a degree form the Fashion Institute of Technology. A native New Yorker, Polsinelli and her family still reside in Manhattan.

Stephen J. Riker

Colliers ABR 

Stephen Riker, one of metropolitan NY's leading promotional real estate brokers and consultants, is responsible for some of the area's most imaginative leasing and sales transactions during the past 30 years. He has represented major corporations in the leasing of 8,200,000 SF of space in Midtown Manhattan alone. For his complex W.R. Grace transaction, he was co-recipient of REBNY's "Most Ingenious Deal of the Year" award and was recently awarded the Louis Smadbeck award for his outstanding contribution to the industry.

As consultant to principals and tenants, he has counseled major corporations throughout the tri-state area in relocation, property purchase, rezoning and development. His recent assignments include the disposition of 475,000 SF at Harbor Plaza in Stamford, CT for IBM, the leasing of 60,000 SF for Bear Stearns, the leasing of 100,000 SF to both BHF Bank and ABN-AMRO, the subleasing of 350,000 SF at the former headquarters of W.R. Grace at 1114 Avenue of the Americas, and the relocation of A.T. Kearney's corporate offices in NYC. Riker also represented Towers Perrin nationally in the disposition of excess space. He was responsible for overseeing construction and leasing of 461 Fifth Avenue for Mitsui Fudosan, and ongoing management and leasing of this prime property. Along with Robert Abrams, he brokered the sale of 111-115 Fifth Avenue to the Winter Group, and then became the leasing agent of this 500,000-SF complex.

Riker, a graduate of Yale University, is a former member of the Board of Governors of REBNY, Chairman of Midtown West Office Building District Rental Conditions, Vice-Chairman of Commercial Brokerage Division--Board of Directors, a member of the Leasing Brokers Committee, a member of the Yale Development Board, Vice Chairman of the Yale Comprehensive Cancer's Advisory Board and a member of the Board of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

Ronda Rogovin

Eastern Consolidated

Ronda Rogovin has been actively involved in investment sales for 23 years. She is responsible for the sale of over 310 commercial properties in the tri-state area. Over 200 of these properties were mixed-use, commercial or residential with a retail component. Her sales achievements include: 2 Rector Street, a 414,000 SF office building; 353 Lexington Avenue, a 78,000 SF mixed-use retail and commercial property; 12 East 41st Street, a 95,000 SF office building; 145 West 45th Street, an 85,000 SF office building which she has sold twice; 213-223 West 35th Street, a 155,000 SF mixed use retail and commercial property; 110 & 150 Fifth Avenue, 170,000 and 168, 000 SF respectively; 560-566 Broadway and 704-706 Broadway, 100,000 and 60,000 SF. respectively, mixed-use retail and commercial properties.

Rogovin was featured on the cover of Money Magazine for being an exceptionally young and successful real estate professional. She has been honored as Eastern Consolidated's Broker of the Year in 1995 and 1999.

Rogovin is cum laude graduate from Baruch College. Her professional affiliations include membership in the Real Estate Board of New York and Young Men's/Women's Real Estate Association of New York, where she served on the Board of Governors in 1993.

Jeffrey D. Roseman

Newmark Retail

A leader in retail leasing for over 15 years, Jeffrey Roseman has completed numerous notable transactions that have influenced the resurgence of the Times Square, Grand Central, Harlem, Union Square and Chelsea sections of Manhattan.

Roseman is a three-time winner of the prestigious REBNY Retail Deal of the Year Award. He won in 1999 for his work on the Harlem USA development at 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard and again the following year for his placement of Whole Foods Market in its NYC flagship store, helping spur significant development in Chelsea. In 2004, he won the award again for his transaction with Guitar Center and the revitalization of West 14th Street.

Roseman has been involved in many other high-profile deals, including The Palm Steakhouse on 8th Avenue and 50th Street, the marketing and leasing of the Bowery Savings Bank on 42nd Street to what is now Cipriani's of 42nd Street and the Piaget world flagship store at 57th Street and Fifth Avenue. He also served as exclusive broker for HMV music stores in Times Square, Harlem, Fifth Avenue and other areas. He has completed multiple leasing deals for tenants such as Kenneth Cole, Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Lechters, Commerce Bank, Equinox Fitness Centers and McDonalds. He also represents such landlords as SL Green, Brookfield Financial Properties, The Trump Organization, the Roosevelt Hotel, The Macklowe Organization and Barnard College. Roseman is a member of REBNY, the Urban Land Institute and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and is a frequent lecturer.

David Rosenberg

Robert K. Futterman & Associates, LLC

David Rosenberg joined the retail real estate services firm of RKF in 1998, and has more than 18 years of experience in the industry. He specializes in retail leasing in the outer boroughs of New York and Upper Manhattan, and is presently marketing more than 725,000 square feet of retail space in the outer boroughs.

Rosenberg has been responsible for some of the most significant retail transactions in the outer boroughs including the leasing of 50,000 SF of retail space at the corner of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing, Queens to Old Navy; the leasing of the 640,000 SF Gateway Center, developed in Brooklyn by The Related Cos., L.P. and Blackacre Capital Management; the leasing of 3081 Jericho Turnpike in Commack to Circuit City; and the leasing of a former Stop N Shop supermarket in New Hyde Park to Old Navy.

His noteworthy sales include the $25.5 million sale of the former Caldor building in the Bronx. He also handled the subsequent leasing of the property to Bally Total Fitness, P.C. Richard & Son, and Children's Place. Rosenberg also arranged the $15 million sale of the 45,000-square-foot former Woolworth building on Fulton Street in Brooklyn on behalf of Federated Department Stores; and the $10 million sale of a 30,000-square-foot development site at 125th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem.

Rosenberg is a member of REBNY and ICSC.

Jonathan Rudes

Winoker Realty Company

Jonathan Rudes is currently a Senior Vice President with Winoker Realty Company in New York. Rudes has been involved in the Commercial Real Estate Industry since 1976. Included among his many accomplishments are the conceptualization and creation of the New York Information Technology Center in 1995, which many consider the lynch-pin for the revitalization of downtown Manhattan.

After completing the lease-up of the New York Information Technology Center, Rudes went on to work with New York City's Economic Development Corporation to create the Plug 'N' Go Program. This program included 13 office buildings in the heart of what has become known as "Silicon Alley". This cooperative marketing program offered low cost, state of the art office space to over 500,000 square feet of emerging technology companies. The six Plug 'N' Go buildings that Rudes represents account for over 400,000 square feet of the program.

In 1987 Rudes represented The Securities Industry Automation Corporation in its acquisition of over 400,000 square feet in MetroTech. As the first tenant in the MetroTech complex it is credited as one of the factors that spurred the development of the 4,000,000 SF urban office park in downtown Brooklyn.

Rudes is a graduate of North Eastern University, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Transportation Science. He is an Adjunct Professor of Real Estate at New York University and President of the Syosset Youth Athletic Council (SYAC). He spent 15 years at Wm. A. White Grubb & Ellis rising to the level of Senior Vice President. From 1997 through 1999 he was a Senior Managing Director of Newmark & Co. Real Estate Inc. From 2001-2002 Rudes was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of William B. May International.

Morton Schrader

PBS Realty Advisors

Mort Schrader is a principal and founding partner of PBS Realty Advisors, LLC (PBS Realty), a boutique real estate firm offering commercial real estate advisory and execution services. With 15 years of commercial real estate experience and extensive knowledge of the retail industry, Schrader leverages his background to provide strategic business and real estate insight throughout his clients' real estate decision-making process.

Mort Schrader specializes in commercial office and retail tenant representation, lease negotiations and real estate equity syndication. He has completed over 300 commercial office and retail transactions, which include assignments for Bear Stearns, Bloomberg L.P., Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Liz Claiborne and Abercrombie & Fitch.

Prior to establishing PBS Realty Advisors in 2001, Schrader was an Executive Managing Director at Newmark & Company Real Estate, Inc., where he was responsible for key corporate and institutional client accounts. Additionally, he was professionally associated with the Koeppel Tener Riguardi and SL Green realty organizations is a licensed real estate broker in the State of New York and a member of the Real Estate Board of New York.

In his prior career, Mort Schrader served for 25 years as president of a large publicly traded apparel-manufacturing company. He is a director of Cache, a publicly held women's apparel retail chain.

Ronald Solarz

Eastern Consolidated

Ronald Solarz is a 14-year veteran of the real estate industry. He joined Eastern Consolidated in June of 1994 and is a principal of the firm. Recognized as one of New York's top real estate brokers with over $700 million in commercial real estate sales, Solarz has extensive experience in the disposition of all asset classes ranging from development-site assemblage to the sale of major office and apartment buildings, hotels, long-term net leases and retail condominiums. Solarz represents a broad array of real estate professionals including institutions, hedge funds and private investors. Notable transactions by him include the sale of 110, 609, 1260 and 1280 Fifth Avenue; the 99-year joint net lease of the entire city block on 57th Street, among many others.

Prior to joining Eastern Consolidated, Solarz was president of Solarz Realty, a Manhattan based real estate brokerage and investment firm. He is currently a member of the Real Estate Board of New York and is a licensed Real Estate Broker in New York and New Jersey.

He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo Management School, where he graduated with honors. He is also active in many civic and charitable activities.

Alan L. Stein

Rockefeller Group Development Corporation

Alan L. Stein is senior vice president, sales and marketing, for Rockefeller Group Development Corporation. In this capacity Mr. Stein is responsible for the leasing activity of all of The Rockefeller Group-owned real estate in midtown Manhattan, primarily at 1221 Avenue of the Americas and 1271 Avenue of the Americas, and in San Jose, California. He is also active in the company's developments and acquisitions in key national markets including New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston, San Francisco, San Jose and Santa Ana, California.

Mr. Stein joined the company in 1991. During his tenure with The Rockefeller Group, Mr. Stein has directed some of the most successful and challenging leasing programs in the company's history. To date he has been responsible for the signing of more than 4.5 million square feet of office and retail leases for the Rockefeller Center complex.

Prior to joining The Rockefeller Group, he was a regional vice president for London and Leeds Development Corporation, with responsibility for the New York Metropolitan and greater Washington, D.C. markets and a Vice President Leasing with Rose Associates.

Mr. Stein is actively involved with several industry organizations including the Real Estate Board of New York, CoreNet, the Young Men's and Women's Real Estate Association of New York and the Urban Land Institute. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association for a Better New York and also serves on the Board of Directors of The Realty Foundation of New York.

Mr. Stein holds a BS degree from Herbert H. Lehman College in accounting and a JD degree from Brooklyn Law School.

Darcy Stacom/Bill Shanahan

CBRE

Darcy Stacom, who serves as Executive Vice President and Partner, Investment Properties Institutional Group (IPIG), joined CB Richard Ellis in 2002. She has over 23 years of real estate experience and specializes in advisory and disposition services, acquisitions, development transactions and real estate finance. In each of the previous five years, advisory and sales transactions have exceeded $1 billion, predominantly in New York City.

Bill Shanahan, who serves as Executive Vice President and Partner, Investment Properties Institutional Group (IPIG), joined CB Richard Ellis in 2002. For over 23 years he has specialized in capital markets, residential and commercial property dispositions including sales and partial interest sales, leasing, participating equity leases, conventional mortgage financing, equity financing, joint ventures and structured sales.

Ms. Stacom and Mr. Shanahan are responsible for the sale and advisory of over $10 billion of commercial real estate in New York and the restructuring of over $2 billion of mortgage and ownership positions. Areas of specializatien include the sale of commercial office buildings, residential apartment houses, development deals, hotels, including joint ventures and recapitalizations.

The Team has also executed numerous sales advisory and capital market transactions nationally including One Second Street in San Francisco, Comerica Tower in Detroit, Bank of America in Houston, Promenade II in Atlanta, Viad Tower in Phoenix and Three First National Plaza in Chicago.

Mitchell Steir

Studley

Mitchell Steir joined Studley in 1988 after beginning his real estate career at Huberth & Peters, where he was awarded REBNY's Most Ingenious Deal of the Year. He is Studley's top-producing broker and is considered to be one of the top tenant brokers in the country by his peers.

In 2002, Steir led a management buy-out of Studley. This marks the first time that a major national commercial real estate firm successfully transitioned its ownership and management to the next generation without selling the company to an outside firm, going public or going out of business.

Among Steir's more recent notable leasing transactions are: Manhattan's largest lease, the 1.5-million-square-foot lease restructure/ extension of Time Inc.'s headquarters; Midtown New York's largest transaction in 2000, the one-million-square-foot build-to-suit world headquarters for Time Warner at Time Warner Center; The 300,000-square-foot build-to-suit headquarters for Jones Day; The 260,000-square-foot expansion/renewal at 600 Madison Avenue for Tiffany & Co.; The 220,000-square-foot lease that relocated Sports Illustrated to 135 West 35th St.--the Sports Illustrated Building

In 2004, he represented: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft on the nearly 500,000-square-foot lease at One World Financial Center, the most significant new transaction in proximity of the World Trade Center site since 9/11; Ann Taylor, now the anchor tenant at Boston Properties' Times Square Tower, on its 300,000-square-foot lease for the firm's corporate headquarters; and Kirkland and Ellis on a 215,000-square-foot lease expansion/renewal at 153 E. 53rd Street--the 12th transaction that Mitch engineered on behalf of Kirkland & Ellis since the early 1990s.

Steir serves on the boards of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Avenue of Americas Association, and the Hamptons International Film Festival and is active in the UJA Federation, the American Jewish Historical Society, the Israel Cancer Research Foundation, and the Caron Foundation.

Bruce Surry

CBRE

Bruce Surry is an Executive Vice President of CB Richard Ellis. Mr. Surry has 28 years of commercial real estate experience, with a primary focus in Downtown Manhattan. His responsibilities have included local and national tenant representation sing and marketing agencies for a number of properties throughout Manhattan.

Bruce operates his Tenant Representation business on a national and global scope having concluded transactions for Georgeson Shareholder Communications on five continents.

During the past year, Bruce has concluded a major acquisition and disposition for Tommy Hilfiger USA/Inc. including the 300,000-sq.-ft. lease/relocation to 601 West 26th Street and the sale of 485 Fifth Avenue.

Another major assignment included the disposition of over 400,000 sq. ft. in Midtown and Downtown Manhattan on behalf of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Inc. Bruce leads the team charged with one of the most important Downtown leasing assignments, 3 World Financial Center, in the leasing of over 900,000 sq. ft. within this trophy property.

Bruce has been the recipient of numerous production awards including Downtown Broker of the Year for five consecutive years with Insignia/ESG, and last year was a member of CB Richard Ellis' Colbert Coldwell Circle, which represents the top 3% of producers at CB Richard Ellis.

Greg Tosko

CBRE

Gregory A. Tosko is an Executive Vice President in CB Richard Ellis' Consulting Group. With extensive experience working with corporate in-depth understanding of the economic and financial statement implications of real estate, Mr. Tosko has developed comprehensive real estate strategies and creatively structured numerous transactions and municipal incentive packages to accomplish a variety of goals on behalf of clients. His ability to understand the implications of a transaction for all parties enables Mr. Tosko to develop effective real estate and negotiating strategies on behalf of clients.

Previously, Gregory was a Certified Public Accountant for Ernst & Young as well as an Investment Associate for Progressive Corporation.

Greg has been awarded the 1996 REBNY Deal of the Year Award for Conde Nast Publications, the 2000 NAIOP Deal of the Year Award for Penton Media in Cleveland, OH, REBNY's 2000 Robert T. Lawrence Award for Ingenuity on behalf of Arthur Andersen, the 2001 REBNY Deal of the Year Award for The New York Times Company, and in 2002 was named one of Real Estate New York's "40 Under 40."

Jeffrey B. Troy

Easter Consolidated

Jeffrey Troy has over 13 years experience in the real estate industry as a broker and asset manager in the NY tri-state area. Troy's experience combines a diverse background of property types including apartment buildings, garden apartment complexes, development sites, Class B office buildings and shopping centers. After joining Eastern Consolidated in 1992, he has continued to be involved in investment sales and became a principal of the firm in 1998.

Several of Mr. Troy's assignments include: 21 West Street, a 31-story, 400,000 SF office building converted to residential rental apartments; 305 East 63rd Street, a 17-story, 149,000 SF office building converted to a residential building; The Crescent, a 20-story, 266-unit apartment building in East Orange, NJ; Silver Ridge Apartments, a 306-unit garden apartment complex in Toms River, NJ; and 12 East 41st Street--The Real Estate Board Building, a 17-story, 95,000 SF office building.

Troy has received the "2001 Broker of the Year Award" as well as the 1993 and 1998 "Most Improved Broker of the Year" from Eastern Consolidated, has been a member of REBNY since 1992 and is actively involved in several charities in NY and NJ.

Brian S. Waterman

Newmark & Company Real Estate

Brian Waterman joined Newmark in 1985 and became a principal in 2000. He has negotiated leasing transactions in excess of $700 million, developing expertise in tenant representation, office condominium conversions and pre-built space programming.

In 1998, Waterman won The Henry Hart Rice Achievement Award from REBNY for "The Most Ingenious Deal of the Year" for the Federation Employment and Guidance Service (FEGS) transaction at 315 Hudson Street.

He is involved in corporate fundraising for the Starlight Children's Foundation, is a member of the Site Visit Committee of United Jewish Appeal, coordinates blood drives for Newmark and YM/WREA and fundraises for FEGS.

Waterman holds leadership positions in several non-profit groups, including chairman of the All Sector Technology Group, chairman of HR Dynamics, president of Staff Resources, Inc., and vice chairman for the New Leadership Division of Israel Bonds. He served as chairman, vice chairman and membership chairman of the YM/WREA, and received its "Young Real Estate Man of the Year" award in conjunction with REBNY in 2001. Waterman guest lectures at the NYU Real Estate Institute and the Real Estate Board of NY.

He holds a BS with a concentration in Management and Marketing from C.W. Post College.

Honorees in this section were selected by Real Estate Weekly staff in cooperation with the in-house marketing staff of New York's leading brokerage firms and nominations submitted by Real Estate Weekly readers between August 2004 and 2005.