The MBA Real Estate Program Advisory Board initiated the Columbia Business School Real Estate Forum in 1995. The forum is an invitation-only group of leading real estate executives who meet several times each year to candidly discuss issues of strategic importance to the real estate industry.
Members of the Forum are all either real estate CEOs or senior industry executives, who own and manage substantial real estate assets and have significant knowledge of real estate in the US and abroad.
Forum members contribute expertise and resources, and lend their support to the Paul Milstein Center through classroom participation, participation in extracurricular activities, and contributions to case production and research. Selected forum members serve on the MBA Real Estate Program Advisory Board, which meets once a year to provide comprehensive feedback to the faculty director and the dean.
Columbia Forum Members
- Dean Adler, Lubert-Adler Partners
- Joseph F. Azrack '72*, Azrack & Company
- Kenneth Bernstein, Acadia Realty Trust
- Daniele D. Bodini '72*, American Continental Properties Group
- Jon Brayshaw, Prime Finance
- Keith Breslauer, Patron Capital Partners
- Kenneth A. Caplan, Blackstone
- Conor C. Flynn MSRED '07, Kimco Realty
- Hugh R. Frater '85*, formerly with Fannie Mae
- Adam Gallistel '04, GIC Real Estate
- Sonny Kalsi, BentallGreenOak
- John R. Klopp*, Morgan Stanley Investment Management
- Ronald J. Kravit, Tracker Capital Management
- Leanne Lachman*, Lachman Associates
- Harrison T. LeFrak '98, LeFrak
- Matthew J. Lustig*, Lazard
- Richard J. Mack, Law '93, Mack Real Estate Group
- Christopher Mayer*, Columbia Business School
- Howard P. Milstein*, New York Private Bank & Trust
- Daniel M. Neidich*, Dune Real Estate Partners
- Paul E. Pariser '78*, Taconic Investment Partners
- Scott Rechler, RXR Realty
- Richard P. Richman, Law '72, MBA '73, The Richman Group
- Amy Rose, Rose Associates
- David M. Sherman '82*, BGO Strategic Capital Partners
- David E. Simon '85*, Simon Property Group
- Jerry I. Speyer '64, Tishman Speyer
- Sabine G. Stener, Gaedeke Group
- Owen D. Thomas, Boston Properties
- Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia Business School
- John A. Vickers '85*, Tishman Hotel and Realty
- Steven R. Wechsler '72*, Tishman Speyer
Forum Emeritus Advisory Council
- Martin Cicco, CC '78, Evercore Partners
- Martin L. Edelman, Esq., Law '66, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
- David Henry, Peaceable Street Capital
- Goh Kok Huat, GIC
- Glenn Hubbard*, Columbia Business School
- Earle W. Kazis '58, Earle W. Kazis Associates
- William L. Mack, Mack Real Estate Group
- David J. Neithercut '82*, Equity Residential
- Steven Roth, Vornado Realty Trust
- Lynne B. Sagalyn*, Columbia Business School
- Barry S. Sternlicht, Starwood Capital Group
*Member of the Columbia Business School Real Estate Program Advisory Board.