2024–2025 Programming Overview
The Real Estate Circle is an exclusive, alumni-only professional group that offers its members access to thought leadership, meaningful networking opportunities, and educational events.
The Circle encourages network building and professional development. Events often include monthly market updates; access to Columbia University faculty thought leaders; intimate gatherings with leading real estate practitioners and business leaders; social events; and exclusive, behind-the-scenes tours of signature real estate projects.
Membership gifts support education, experiential learning opportunities, research, alumni expansion efforts, and industry engagement at Columbia Business School. It profoundly and immediately impacts the Center’s mission to educate the next generation of business leaders about real estate practice within an ever-changing global market.
Membership currently spans 16 US states, as well as Washington, DC, and 45 graduation years. The alumni network extends globally to Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Regional chapters actively engage members in major cities, including Miami, Los Angeles, and San Franciso, among others that are growing.
In 2025-2026, the Circle will expand its board to develop and drive its next phase of strategic growth.
29
Alumni Events: Bringing together graduates from 1973 to 2025
9
US Market Observations Assembly and Member Exchanges
4
International Market Forums
7
Alumni Networking Events (New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dubai, Denver)
3
Faculty-led Presentations (Dubai, Miami, London)
4
Conferences
2
Walking Site Tours
Notable Events
- 17th Annual Real Estate Symposium
- Climate Business & Investment Conference, Climate × Risk, co-hosted with the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Columbia Climate School
- Real Estate Capital Markets Conference
- Women in Real Estate Summit
- Urban Land Institute’s Spring Meeting Alumni Networking Social in Denver
New Initiatives
- Began hosting casual meetups for members and interested guests to network in NYC and other major cities
- CBS faculty traveled to major cities like London and Miami to present research on behalf of the Circle
- Introduced CBS alumni events connected to major industry conferences
Real Estate Circle Board Members:
- Cia Buckley Marakovits ’93
- Gideon Gil ’00
- Gentry Hoit ’90
- Nancy Lashine ’81
- Scott Meyer ’14
- Raphael Sidelsky ’99
- Jared Toothman ’12
2024–2025 Real Estate Circle Members: 136
- Pablo Acevedo ’24
- David Ackerman ’24
- Jose Ignacio Amenabar ’23
- Ogechukwu Anoliefo ’25*
- Andres Arozrena ’23
- Hugh Barber ’17
- Anna-Kaye Barrett ’22
- Zachary Bayer ’23
- Alex Bernstein ’00
- Timothy Berry ’13
- Anand Bhatia ’16
- Nicholas Bienstock ’96
- Victor Bittar Hunziker ’24
- Tillie Borchers ’03*
- Jonathan Braun ’21
- Julie Brenton ’89
- Cia Buckley Marakovits ’93
- Chris Byrns ’25*
- Jordan Camp ’25*
- PJ Camp ’95*
- Mark Caplan ’84
- Lisa Cations ’17
- Tommy Chan ’19*
- Chris Chang ’07
- Eric Chapek ’22
- Arvind Chary ’11
- Michael Cheng CIBE ’23
- Connor Corcoran ’24
- Stonington Cox ’07
- Jason Davis ’10
- Ivo de Wit ’17
- Brandon Delijani ’22
- Roland Dib ’98
- Ronald Dickerman ’87
- Tony Dong ’23
- Mikhael Edouard ’18
- Justin Einhorn ’22
- Daniel Entwistle ’00
- Amir Geva ’25*
- Gideon Gil ’00
- David Gillespie ’04
- Caroline Giroux ’22
- Sam Glass ’06
- Dani Glouberman ’23
- Leslie Goedken ’14*
- Daniel Goldbard ’22*
- Ed Gormbley ’09
- Steve Grant ’92
- Javaughn Griffin ’23
- Rishi Gupta ’11*
- Alex Haberman ’24
- Ronen Haron ’08
- Francisco Heffesse ’19
- Gentry Hoit ’90
- Hayley Holzinger ’25*
- Winnie Hui ’22
- Michael Hyun ’05
- Jhonnari Jimenez Martin ’22
- Ali Mac Jinks ’24
- Farheen Jooma ’24
- Matthew Karp ’04
- Brendan Keen ’24*
- Andrew Kim ’21
- Jee Young Kim ’23
- Adam Koeppel ’24
- Miguel Lainez ’15
- Nancy Lashine ’81
- Ines Leung ’07
- Mark Lokhin ’08
- Sproule Love ’09
- Tim Mackey ’00*
- Nina Madison ’23
- Arsean Maqami ’22
- Lisa Mayer ’97
- Brad McCarthy ’25*
- Roland Merchant ’01
- Scott Meyer ’14
- Mark Momongan ’99
- Jonathan More ’09
- H. Herbert Myers ’96
- David Nelson ’04*
- Talya Nevo-Hacohen ’93
- Joe Noon ’17
- Tom Ortinau ’09
- Katie Pelczar ’08
- Evan Petracca ’16
- Ashutosh Poddar ’23
- Alex Rapeport ’24
- Pablo Redondo-Lopez ’16
- John Reid ’24*
- Quentin Reynolds ’02
- David Rose ’83
- Lauren Rose ’17
- Matthew Ross ’04
- James Schmid ’05
- Gregorio Schneider ’96
- David Schore ’93
- Benjamin Schwartz ’22
- Scott Shapiro ’99
- David Sherman ’82
- Kennedy Shields ’23
- Steven Shores ’00
- Raphael Sidelsky ’99
- Joseph Smith ’99
- Ross Smotrich ’83
- Walter Stackler ’94
- William Stasiulatis ’04
- Deirdre Steel ’23
- Brian Steinwurtzel ’04
- Yamicha Stephenson ’25*
- Robert Stern ’88
- Alan Supple ’00*
- Pablo Tagle ’24
- Tony Talbert ’04
- Eric Tam ’08
- Eric Thomas ’22
- Kevin Thompson ’17
- Tony Tokatly ’25*
- Leah Toler ’25*
- Jared Toothman ’12
- Jeffrey Turkanis ’10
- Sridhar Vankayala ’08
- Garnett Veney ’19
- Katie Vila ’16
- Jeffrey Wainwright ’11
- Ruby Wang ’24
- Marc Watkins ’03*
- Dylan West ’18
- Gordon Whiting ’94
- Lauryn Williams ’25*
- Jonathn Wu ’24*
- Ned Yale ’24
- Ryoichi Yamamoto ’24
- Jessica Younes–
- Fraiberger ’04*
- Andrew Yuan ’22*
- Athena Zou ’25*
*Indicates new member