Real Estate Forum
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 CEO’s 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
Keith Breslauer
Patron Capital Partners
Kenneth A. Caplan
Blackstone
Thomas M. Flexner
Citigroup
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
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.