Speyer of Tishman Speyer to speak at YM/WREA's May 13 meeting

The Young Men's/Women's Real Estate Association (YM/WREA) will hold a meeting May 13. The featured guest speaker is Jerry Speyer, chairman and CEO of Tishman Speyer. Speyer is one of the two founding partners of the company which was formed in 1978. He is a chairman of the Museum of Modern Art; a vice chair of New York Presbyterian Hospital; the former chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; chairman emeritus of Columbia University; chairman emeritus of the Real Estate Board of New York; chair emeritus Partnership for New York City; and past president of the board of trustees of the Dalton School. Speyer's other board affiliations include Yankee Global Enterprises, Carnegie Hall and the Economic Club of New York He is a a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He graduated from Columbia College in 1962 and Columbia University Graduate School of Business in 1964. Tishman Speyer is a leading owners, developers, operators, and fund managers of first-class real estate in the world, having managed a portfolio of assets since its inception of 113 million s/f and 91,000 residential units in major metropolitan areas across the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia.