Meet Bisnow's 48 Women Leading Real Estate In NYC
After a two-year hiatus, Bisnow's annual event honoring some of the most powerful women in New York City commercial real estate is back for 2022.
In total, 48 women are on the honoree list from all corners of the industry, selected by a steering committee that considered nominees' efforts to advance the industry amid the challenges of the last few years, as well as their commitment to New York City’s recovery. The committee was composed of BentallGreenOak's Abbe Franchot Borok, RXR Realty's Whitney Arcaro, Hunton Andrews Kurth's Laurie Grasso and Invesco Real Estate's Lesley Lisser.
While the number of women in real estate has grown every year, it is still a largely male-dominated industry — particularly in the boardrooms and at the executive level. Women made up 23.5% of the highest-ranking executives at the country's largest commercial real estate firms, according to Bisnow’s industry analysis in 2021.
Nevertheless, individual women continue to make their mark on New York as the city faces its toughest economic challenges in a generation. The names chosen reflect the evolving face of the industry as it works to drive the city's recovery forward. Bisnow will be celebrating these honorees at the New York Women Leading Real Estate cocktail event on Wednesday, Sept. 28. While the event is sold out, more seats might be made available in the coming days.
The 2022 honorees, grouped by sector, are:
Development & Investment
Rebecca D'Eloia, Senior Vice President, Development, RXR Realty
Hilary Spann, Executive Vice President, New York Region, Boston Properties
Sherry Wang, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
Madeleine Roy, Director of Development, Domain Cos.
Pamela West, Managing Director, Real Estate Impact Investing, Nuveen
Amanda Ryzowy, Partner, L+M Fund Management
Julie Ingersoll, Chief Investment Officer, CBRE Investment
Legal, City & Professional Services
Terri Adler, Managing Partner, Duval & Stachenfeld
Edith Hsu-Chen, Executive Director, NYC Department of City Planning
Sandhya Espitia, Chief Operating Officer, REBNY
Michelle Kleger, Senior Vice President, Kensington Vanguard
Elizabeth Gable, Partner, King & Spalding
Alexis Kremen, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Related Cos.
Financing
Jessica Bailey, President and CEO, Nuveen Green Capital
Nailah Flake-Brown, Managing Partner, Brookfield Asset Management
Laura Rapaport, Founder and CEO, North Bridge
Melissa Farrell, Managing Director, Head of U.S. Debt Originations, PGIM
Catherine Chen, Managing Director, Apollo Global Management
Julia Butler, Managing Director, KKR
Katie Keenan, Senior Managing Director, Blackstone
Sales and Leasing
Janet Woods, Vice Chairman, Northeast and South Florida Lead
Helen Hwang, Senior Executive Managing Director, Meridian Capital Group
Ramneek Rikhy, Executive Vice President, CBRE
Leslie Lanne, Executive Managing Director, JLL Industrial
Susan Mello, Executive Vice President and Group Head of Capital Markets, Walker & Dunlop
Ashley Mays, Senior Vice President and Head of Leasing, Brooklyn Navy Yard
Karen Bellantoni, Vice Chairman, Newmark Retail
Avery Silverstein, Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield
Operations & Asset Management
Linda Foggie, Head of Global Real Estate, Citi Realty Services
Allison Wolfe, Chief Financial Officer and Global Head of Asset Management, Oxford Properties
Heather Moore, Managing Director, Greystar
EB Kelly, Managing Director and Head of Rockefeller Center, Tishman Speyer
Caroline Gadaleta, Head of Property Management, JLL
Rachel Wachtel, Executive Vice President SPACE+, Brookfield Properties
Alexis Michael, Managing Director, Hines Construction
Nancy Goldsmith, Managing Director, Operations, Bozzuto Group
Architecture & ESG
Julie Lurie, Senior Managing Director and ESG Chair, Tishman Speyer
Mimi Raygorodetsky, Principal, Langan
Gina Bocra, Chief Sustainability Officer, NYC Department of Buildings
Sara Kendall, Vice President and General Manager, Turner Construction
Nancy Ruddy, Co-Founder, CetraRuddy
Charlotte Matthews, Head of Affordable Electrification, Google
Marketing and Communications
Sarah Berman, Founder and President, The Berman Group
Cara Faske, CEO, Pace
Abbie Newman, President, LIVunLtd
Terry Villani, Owner, Villani Group
Joanna Rose, Partner and Global Head of Corporate Communications, Apollo
Rosemarie McElwee, Senior Vice President of Marketing, UC Funds
CORRECTION, SEPT. 20, 5:45 P.M. ET: Nailah Flake-Brown is a managing partner at Brookfield Asset Management. An earlier version of this story mistakenly identified her employer as Brookfield Properties. This story has been updated
