MBA Real Estate Program Advisory Board
The MBA Real Estate Program Advisory Board plays an active, participatory role in helping shape and guide real estate education at the business school. In its advisory capacity, the board serves as a valuable resource for the faculty director in constantly keeping the real estate curriculum current, expanding employment opportunities for real estate MBA students, offering constructive advice on development outreach, and ensuring that the school benefits to full advantage from the knowledge and experience that its alumni have to offer. The existence of the board also provides an opportunity to bring alumni and New York real estate professionals closer to the program and its activities. Board members serve as tireless champions of the program among alumni and with their peer groups.
The makeup of the Real Estate Program’s Advisory Board is meant to represent a cross-section of the Columbia Business School real estate alumni base as well as the real estate industry as represented by the school’s advantageous location in New York City. Board members are leaders and entrepreneurs in their respective areas of real estate activity. While the heaviest concentration is in finance and investment, which mirrors the focus of our program and position in New York, the roster has depth in development and representation in social enterprise real estate. Current advisory board members are listed below.
Rohit Aggarwala ’00
Sidewalk Labs
Joseph F. Azrack ’72
Azrack & Company
Nicholas Bienstock ’96
Savanna
Daniele D. Bodini ’72
American Continental Properties Group
Cia Buckley Marakovits ’93
Dune Real Estate Partners
Olivier de Poulpiquet ’94
Morgan Stanley
Hugh Frater ’85
Fannie Mae
Gideon Gil ’00
Cushman & Wakefield
Gentry Ashmore Hoit ’90
ARK Homes for Rent
Erik Horvat ’04
The Olayan Group
John R. Klopp
Morgan Stanley
M. Leanne Lachman
Lachman Associates
Nancy Lashine ’81
Park Madison Partners
Michael Lehrman ’90
Cantor Fitzgerald
Matthew J. Lustig
Lazard
Christopher Mayer
Columbia Business School
Howard P. Milstein
New York Private Bank & Trust
Daniel M. Neidich
Dune Real Estate Partners
David Neithercut ’82
Equity Residential
Paul Pariser ’78
Taconic Investment Partners
Lynne B. Sagalyn
Columbia Business School
David Sherman ’82
BGO Strategic Capital Partners
David E. Simon ’85
Simon Property Group
Joseph C. Smith ’99
1754 Properties
Ross Smotrich '83
RLS Capital
Brian Steinwurtzel ’04
GFP Real Estate
Robert Stern ’88
Castle Hill Investors
John A. Vickers ’85
Tishman Hotel & Realty
Steven R. Wechsler ’72
Tishman Speyer