Laura Yablon Rapaport is Founder and CEO of North Bridge. North Bridge was formed to create sustainable real estate solutions. Currently, the firm is active in providing C-PACE financing nationwide.

Prior to starting North Bridge, Ms Rapaport was a Managing Director at L&L Holding Company, an owner-operator and developer in New York City where she was a key member in multiple areas for almost a decade. During her tenure she was head of Capital Raising, raising over $1.5 B of institutional equity as well as the Project Director for 425 Park Avenue, a $1 B+ Norman Foster

designed 670 k sf office tower, the first ground-up office building on Park Avenue in the last 50 years.

Ms. Rapaport was previously a Director in the New York development group of Tishman Speyer Properties, where she was a project manager of a 3.5 M sf mixed-use development, with additional focus on residential development and commercial acquisitions. She started her career at Lehman Brothers Global Real Estate Group in London, closing over $2 B in transactions for a securitization exit.

Ms. Rapaport graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received her MBA with honors from the Wharton School of Business. She is on the board of PACENation, member and former board member of New York Women Executives in Real Estate (WX), Co-head of Wharton Real Estate Alumni in NY and Co-founder of Penn Women in Real Estate. In 2017 she was named by Crain’s Magazine as one of New York’s “40 Under 40” Rising Stars.

David is responsible for all investment and new development activity at L+M Development Partners, including oversight for each of the core expertise groups and investment platforms with Goldman Sachs’ Urban Investment Group and Citi Community Capital. He brings over 25 years of acquisitions, finance and new development experience, and has been a key participant in transactions involving over 20,000 units and $5 billion of investment. Prior to joining L+M, David spent much of his career in senior development roles at Forest City Ratner Companies and Tishman Speyer in New York. He began his professional life working in city planning and economic development before joining HR&A Advisors to focus on public-private development strategy and housing finance. David has served with organizations such as the Enterprise Community Partners New York Advisory Board, the Randall’s Island Park Alliance, the LIC Partnership, Manhattan Community Board 7, and as a fellow with Coro New York. He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in urban studies and earned an M.S. in real estate development from Columbia University.

Melissa Gliatta is Chief Operating Officer of Thor Equities. Ms. Gliatta works closely with Thor Equities Chairman & CEO Joseph Sitt to expand the company’s business activities. Her responsibilities include overseeing asset management, leasing, human resources, development and construction, as well as marketing and property management in major markets including London, Paris, Madrid, Milan, New York, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, DC and Montreal. In 1995, Ms. Gliatta joined Thor Equities and Ashley Stewart where she played a prime role in operating and expanding the company to 380 stores in over 100 cities. In 2000, Mr. Sitt decided to divest his interest in Ashley Stewart and focus exclusively on Thor Equities. Ms. Gliatta was named Vice President of Thor in 2003, focusing on operations and management of the company’s growing commercial real estate portfolios. She was promoted to Executive Vice President in 2010 and Chief Operating Officer in 2016. Ms. Gliatta’s strong leadership and operational skills – developed during her time at Ashley Stewart – enabled her to attract a team of experienced and dedicated professionals to Thor Equities, and help grow the company into a full-service real estate firm with offices in New York, London, Paris, Mexico City, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami.

Ian Bruce Eichner, a seasoned developer of urban mixed-use properties, has a proven

track record in real estate spanning more than three decades. His vast portfolio of

projects in New York, Miami and Las Vegas include City Spire, One Broadway Place, The

Manhattan Club, The Kingsley, Royale, American, and Boulevard as well as Montague

Street built in Brooklyn Heights. Outside of New York he has developed the Continuum,

a 2-tower gated condominium community in South Beach, and the Cosmopolitan, a

3,000 room resort and casino on the Las Vegas strip. His latest project 45 East 22nd

Street, recently completed, is the tallest and, considered by many, the most iconic

building in the Flatiron District. Transforming the downtown skyline, the tower consists

of a glass silhouette of 65 stories which rises 777 feet into the sky. The striking exterior,

crafted by the global architectural firm of Kohn Peterson Fox, wraps around timeless

interiors created by the Martin Brudzinski Design Studio. The building contains 82

apartments and approximately 230,000 sale-able square feet with the following five

floors of amenities including:

 Landscaped garden and fifth floor terrace designed by Oehme Van Sweden

 Fitness center

 Children’s playroom

 Indoor basketball court

 Golf simulator

 Drawing room with separate billiards and cards rooms

 Upper Club on the 54th floor with bar, private dining room and catering kitchen

 Automated private residential parking garage

His newest project 960 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn is a proposed 1.3 million square feet

development consisting of 1600 residential housing units including a proposed 50/50

split between market rate, work-force and low-income apartments.

Mr. Eichner’s acute business sense has produced a series of visionary real estate

developments that have been characterized by a creative mix of distinctive purpose-

built properties. Each of these properties illustrates his extensive real estate expertise

and ability to take situations which others may find unachievable and off-putting, and

design and execute solutions which realize value for the developer. Mr. Eichner’s

notable development achievements that were the first in their class include:

1. First high-rise built in Brooklyn Heights since landmarks height

legislation was passed in 1965 (Montague Street, 1998)

2. First urban timeshare in New York, with a new concept of being able

to book stays one day at a time (The Manhattan Club, 1996)

3. First and only beachfront gated community in South Beach (The

Continuum, 2003-2008)

4. First development on the Las Vegas strip to employ an urban

development model, maximizing a small (8.5 acre) site to its full square

footage potential of 6 ½ million square feet. (The Cosmopolitan)

Mr. Eichner’s career in real estate follows almost a decade in the criminal

justice system, including terms as an Assistant District Attorney and program

development chief of a New York State agency during Governor Nelson

Rockefeller’s tenure.

Steven Witkoff is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of the firm, which he founded in 1997. With his extensive experience in all aspects of the development process, from financing and acquisitions through construction, he has successfully led the repositioning of over 70 properties comprising some 18 million square feet in major central business districts in the U.S. and abroad.

Before founding the firm, Mr. Witkoff co-founded Stellar Management Company, where he acquired and repositioned a portfolio of residential buildings in New York City. Prior to Stellar Management Company, Mr. Witkoff practiced as an attorney in real estate law at Dreyer & Traub and Rosenman & Colin, where he represented a number of large developers and investors.

Mr. Witkoff earned a J.D. from Hofstra University. He has served on the Executive Committee for the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) as a trustee for the Intrepid Foundation, and as a board member for the Jeffrey Modell Foundation. Mr. Witkoff currently serves as Chairman of the University of Miami Business School Real Estate Advisory Board and is a member of the Hofstra University Board of Trustees. He is a widely sought-after public speaker on trends in global real estate.

William S. (Billy) Macklowe is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of William Macklowe Company

(WMC), a vertically integrated real estate development, investment and operating company based in New York

City. Highly regarded in its industry, WMC’s business centers on the acquisition, development and

redevelopment of prime commercial, medical, and residential assets in New York City and the boroughs, real

estate correlated investments, portfolio acquisitions, and third-party management.

WMC redeveloped the office buildings at 636 Avenue of the Americas, 386 Park Avenue South, 311

West 43 rd  Street and 156 William Street, which it successfully repositioned as Downtown Manhattan’s premier

medical office building. WMC recently developed the medical office building 333 East 61 st  Street which is

leased in its entirety to Memorial Sloan Kettering, and both completed and successfully sold 100% of the units

at 21 East 12 th Street, a luxury, 23-story condominium designed by Annabelle Selldorf, in the heart of

Greenwich Village. WMC is currently developing Paseo on Fifth, a ground-up -275,000 square foot (sf) mixed-

use complex comprised of 185 rental apartments and 66,000 sf of commercial and retail space leased to an

array of national tenants over multiple buildings in prime Park Slope Brooklyn, as well as an office to multifamily

conversion at 291 Broadway in Tribeca.

Prior to establishing WMC, Billy was the President of Macklowe Properties, where he was responsible

for the firm’s successful development and redevelopment of over 25 million square feet, valued in excess of

$15 billion, including, among other projects, the office buildings at 340, 400 and 540 Madison Avenue and 140

West 57th Street , the high-rise multifamily buildings at 777 Sixth Avenue and Longacre House, and the highly

successful residential condominium projects at 310 E. 53 rd Street and 145 E. 76 th Street. Additionally, he played

a major role in re-establishing The General Motors Building as the preeminent office tower in the world. Billy

was the point of direct oversight of a 14 million square foot portfolio of Class A, midtown Manhattan office

buildings and 3,000 multifamily units

Billy, a graduate of New York University, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chapin School,

where he is the Chair of the Buildings and Grounds Committee and was responsible for the $240 million dollar

expansion and overbuild of a new building which was constructed on top of the existing school. Billy served on

the Real Estate Board of New York’s Board of Governors and is also member of YPO International of which he

is a past Chairman of the Gotham Chapter.

Steve Kirn is a partner in RSM’s Stamford office and leads the Real Estate practice in Connecticut and Westchester. He has over 20 years of experience and has been involved in all facets of client service including audit, tax and financial consulting. Steve has significant experience serving both public and private clients in real estate, construction, manufacturing, wholesale, distribution and professional services firms.

Steve is a CPA, licensed in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Vermont. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants. Steve earned a BS in accounting from Northeastern University, and completed a graduate-level CFO advisory program at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

Riggs co-founded Honest Buildings in 2012 after ten years in the commercial real estate industry, including more than five years working at Tishman Speyer in acquisition, asset management and global sustainability. He learned first-hand the frustration and inefficiency that results from real estate being one of the last industries relying on out-dated, paper-based processes and he believed strongly that enterprise-grade technology could solve these problems in the same way it has in almost every other sector.

Riggs is relentlessly focused on building the best team and the best technology to move the real estate industry forward. He is widely recognized as a thought leader in real estate technology, speaking everywhere from the White House to our own annual Honest Buildings Real Estate Innovations Summit, and contributing regularly to leading publications, including Entrepreneur and The Commercial Observer.

Josh Carson is responsible for the acquisition, financing and recapitalization of office assets in New York City. Since joining L&L in 2010, he has participated in over $2 billion of transactions on behalf of the firm. Josh also served as the Project Director for the successful redevelopment and lease-up of 114 Fifth Avenue, a 350,000 sf landmarked building in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighborhood. Prior to joining L&L, Josh focused on acquisitions in New England and the Southeast for New Boston Fund, a real estate investment management firm. He started his career at McKinsey & Company.

Josh graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College.

Joe has worked in all phases of development, from site design and approvals to general contracting and construction management. He brings this well-rounded experience to his role as Principal of Bohler Engineering’s New York Metro region, which covers Long Island, the five boroughs of New York City, lower New York State and parts of Connecticut. Joe’s expertise is navigating the complexities and challenges of permitting and the approval process for New York Metro development projects. In 2014, Joe and his team opened Bohler’s Manhattan office, which provides land development consulting services with an expertise in navigating the complex permitting challenges in New York City.

David is a sales and marketing professional in the field of critical energy

infrastructure and energy efficiency. In his current position with Con Edison, as

Business Development Manager of Commercial and Industrial Energy Efficiency

Programs, he is responsible for helping customers meet energy efficiency

improvements within the commercial portfolio which is supported by a network of

over 700 market partners.

David, who has been with Con Edison since 2008, worked in a variety of

business development, sales management, marketing and external affairs

positions for Johnson Controls, Public Service Enterprise Group, Pennsylvania

Power & Light and the Trane Company. His major focus has been on clients with

critical energy needs in the fields of commercial real estate, healthcare and data

center operations.

David has a BS in Marketing and an MBA in Finance, both from Montclair State

University. He is a Certified Energy Manager, and an active member of the

Association of Energy Engineers, the New York Building Congress, the

Manhattan Chamber of Commerce Green Business committee, American

Institute of Architects (AIANY) and Urban Green Council. David is an officer of

the New York City chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating &

Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).

Michael J. Vardaro, LEED AP, is the Managing Partner at Zetlin & De Chiara LLP. Mr. Vardaro's background as a former construction worker with a degree in civil engineering gives him the ability to understand the intricacies and nuances of the construction process and to provide focused and innovative counseling to construction industry clients. Mr. Vardaro successfully represents clients in complex commercial and construction litigation matters in various venues across the country. He also has extensive experience resolving claims through mediation as well as representing clients before administrative boards and arbitration panels. In addition to litigating, Mr. Vardaro drafts and negotiates complex construction contracts for various project types around the world and regularly counsels clients with respect to professional licensing, corporate organization and transition, general business matters, risk management and insurance issues. He works extensively with regard to advancements in the construction process, including design build, integrated project delivery (IPD), building information modeling (BIM), and sustainable/green design and construction.