Liz Hart is the president of leasing, North America at Newmark. She serves on the company’s executive committee, the company’s corporate management steering committee, driving overarching strategy of the leasing business. With over 20 years of industry experience, Liz oversees multiple teams and drives Newmark’s talent strategy, leading recruit identification, integration, and development across divisions
Clelia Warburg Peters founded Era Ventures in 2022, as an industry pioneer Peters helped coin the term “proptech” and has been leading investments in the space for roughly a decade. As managing partner, she identifies and evaluates investments and supports Era’s portfolio companies. She manages all fund operations, including fundraising and day-to-day support for the fund itself.
Greg Corbin has led his team for sux years, at a previous firm and now under its own banner as Northgate Real Estate Group, with a primary focus on origination, deal-making, business development, and company branding. In addition to actively working on deals and overseeing transactions, Corbin manages the firm and works closely with agents,
Jac Zadrima’s firm, Genesis Realty Group, currently manages approximately 2000 multifamily units throughout the NY Metropolitan area with the help of his 15 person operation. He also has holdings throughout the Hudson Valley and capital regions of New York.
Evan Rusinowitz’s 10-year career spans a variety of roles in the real estate industry, including real estate transactions specialist at Guardian Life Insurance, senior manager of workplace experiences at RXR, and Workplace Strategy. He’s been a senior workplace strategist with Vocon for the past two years as part of Vocon’s growing strategy studio.
Dominick Casale is a founding principal of IMC Architecture, a Brooklyn, NY-based architecture, interior design, planning and consulting firm focused on commercial, multi-family, educational, healthcare, retail and worship markets. Since co-founding the studio in 2015 with partners Eugene Mekhtiyev and Jonathan Imani, Dominick has led architectural design work and regulatory and zoning reviews of a multitude of new construction,
Jonathan Ehrlich is the driving force behind T2D2.ai’s breakthrough in automated building inspection, transforming how commercial real estate monitors structural integrity. By spearheading the integration of AI and drone technology, Ehrlich led the development of T2D2’s cloud-based platform, enabling clients to identify deterioration early, optimize maintenance, and manage long-term building health.
Ryan Lewis has been the managing director of ERG Commercial Real Estate since January of 2022. ERG Commercial Real Estate is a full service commercial real estate firm with a diverse platform of services including investment sales, traditional financing brokerage, direct private lending and property management.
Lau is the CEO and co-founder of Stuf, overseeing the company’s strategic vision and execution of the company’s growth goals. She works closely with her small team of less than 20 employees on day-to-day operations, helping them learn about the industry and grow the business, providing mentorship and support for all sections of the business.
As president, Lelina Chang leads the company’s strategic direction and manages daily operations, overseeing a 60+ member team across departments including production, sales, purchasing, inventory, IT, and logistics. This role involves setting goals, optimizing processes, and ensuring efficient, quality-driven production to meet customer needs.
Laura Rapaport founded North Bridge in 2021, where she and her growing team of 10 provide credit solutions for institutional real estate developers nationwide through C-PACE financing. With deep, hands-on experience in development, financing, acquisitions, asset management and leasing, they bring a unique understanding of the challenges and opportunities created by the most ambitious projects.
Alexander Zilberman is founder and principal architect of full-service architecture, interior design, and planning firm AZA. With a mission to realize each client’s vision while bringing passion, creativity and diligence to every project, Zilberman leads a team of 10 in bringing to bear the full breadth and depth of relevant experience
Nick Romito co-founded VTS, the only technology platform to unify owners, operators, brokers and their customers across the real estate ecosystem, in 2012 alongside his business partner Ryan Masiello. Serving as chief executive officer, Romito stands at the forefront of operational excellence across all facets of the organization, elevating the company from an early-stage startup to an international unicorn and a platform managing 13 billion s/f of space and utilized by over 1.2 million total users.
As executive managing director – director of leasing at The Moinian Group, Gregg Weisser is a strategic real estate management professional with extensive experience managing end-to-end real estate and occupancy-related services including consolidations, acquisitions and dispositions.
As founder and managing partner of Z Realty Group, Zeynap “Z” Ekemen has overseen the company’s real estate operations since 2009. Ekemen’s primary responsibility is managing site selection, acquisition, and development for The Learning Experience centers, a national chain of childcare facilities.
Bordwin is responsible for all aspects of business development and execution at Keen-Summit Capital Partners. He focuses primarily on the development of new business, marketing and implementing strategic real estate plans for his clients. Those plans involve real estate analysis, real estate acquisitions and dispositions, lease modifications and terminations, and corporate finance and capital market services.
Wallkill, NY A quaint and peaceful Hudson Valley retreat is expanding its footprint in the wedding events space, with help from Kennedy Funding. The N.J.-based, direct private lender closed a $1.445 million loan to 323 Old Mill LLC for
Uniondale, NY According to Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP, Elbert Nasis, a partner and co-chair of the firm’s Litigation practice group, was unanimously elected to the Board of the Long Island Metro Business Action
New Rochelle, NY The city of New Rochelle unveiled its downtown retail strategy, marking a milestone in the city’s evolution as a dynamic urban destination for locals, new residents, and visitors. The plan, approved by the city council, includes the creation of New Rochelle’s Vanguard District and initiatives to further
An upcoming change to the definition of “major buildings” will have major ramifications for thousands of New York City properties by the end of the year. The current NYC building code defines major buildings as “an existing or proposed building 10 or more stories or 125 ft. or more in