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. Forum members 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. Current forum members are listed below.
Eric Adler
PGIM Real Estate
Joseph F. Azrack ’72*
Azrack & Company
Robert Berne ’62*
Formerly with Milstein Properties
Daniele D. Bodini ’72*
American Continental
Properties Group
Ric Clark
Brookfield Property Group
Andrew L. Farkas
Island Capital Group
Thomas M. Flexner
Citigroup
Conor C. Flynn MSRED ’07
Kimco Realty
Hugh R. Frater ’85*
VEREIT
Stephen J. Furnary
Clarion Partners
Adam Gallistel '04
GIC Real Estate
Jonathan D. Gray
Blackstone
Spencer B. Haber*
H/2 Capital Partners
Glenn Hubbard*
Columbia Business School
Earle W. Kazis ’58
Earle W. Kazis Associates
John R. Klopp*
Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Ronald J. Kravit
Cerberus Capital Management
M. Leanne Lachman*
Lachman Associates
Harrison T. LeFrak ’98
LeFrak
Matthew J. Lustig*
Lazard
Richard J. Mack, Law ’93
Mack Real Estate Group
William L. Mack
Mack Real Estate Group
Jay Mantz
Rialto
Christopher J. Mayer*
Columbia Business School
Howard P. Milstein*
New York Private Bank
& Trust
Daniel M. Neidich*
Dune Real Estate Partners
David J. Neithercut ’82*
Equity Residential
Paul E. Pariser ’78*
Taconic Investment Partners
Richard P. Richman,
Law ’72, MBA ’73
The Richman Group
Steven Roth
Vornado Realty Trust
Lynne B. Sagalyn*
Columbia Business School
Richard B. Saltzman
Colony NorthStar
Benjamin Schore ’59*
Columbia Business School
David M. Sherman ’82*
Metropolitan Real Estate
David E. Simon ’85*
Simon Property Group
Jerry I. Speyer ’64
Tishman Speyer
Barry S. Sternlicht
Starwood Capital Group
Owen D. Thomas
Boston Properties
John A. Vickers ’85*
Tishman Hotel and Realty
Steven R. Wechsler ’72*
Tishman Speyer
Lance N. West
Centerbridge Partners Europe
Sam Zell
Equity Group Investments
* Member of the Columbia Business School Real Estate Program Advisory Board.