Professional Profile: Efrat Sharon, 2014

Name: Efrat Sharon Title: Senior Vice President Finance Company: TerraCRG Location: Brooklyn, N.Y. Birthplace: Tel Aviv, Israel Education: Executive MBA from Columbia Business School, bachelors in Philosophy and Film Making from Tel Aviv University First job outside of real estate: Sold frozen yogurt First job in real estate or allied field: Associate at a boutique acquisition shop in N.Y.C. What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? Head the financing department at TerraCRG and plan to have a long fulfilling professional life. How do you unwind from a busy day in real estate? Sing, play Ping-Pong, and watch movies. Favorite book or author: "History" by Elsa Morante, "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer and "London Fields" by Martin Amis. Favorite movie: "Cinema Paradiso," "The Big Lebowski," "À bout de Souffle" ("Breathless") and "Pumping Iron." Last song you downloaded? "Mack the Knife" One word to describe your work environment: Raw Rules to live by in business: Have a good heart and a good mind. Always be honest even when you don't feel like telling the truth, always think intelligently about everything you're told, and really, but really do everything you can to get the best results for clients. I live by the principles of Karma, despite it sometimes looking like the get-what-you-give cycle is three times longer than one person's lifetime. If you could invite one person to dinner (living or dead) who would it be and where would you go? Abraham Lincoln, I'd go to a really good sandwich shop and talk for hours What is your dream job? I love my job and my profession, I love being at the frontier of where things are created, get decided on, are changed and are accomplished. I do, however, have a dream world.