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.
Dean Adler
Lubert-Adler Partners
Joseph F. Azrack ’72*
Azrack & Company
Robert Berne ’62*
Formerly with Milstein Properties
Kenneth Bernstein
Acadia Realty Trust
Daniele D. Bodini ’72*
American Continental Properties Group
Kenneth A. Caplan
Blackstone
Thomas M. Flexner
Citigroup
Conor C. Flynn MSRED ’07
Kimco Realty
Hugh R. Frater ’85*
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
Richard B. Saltzman
David M. Sherman ’82*
Metropolitan Real Estate
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
Lance N. West
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
Benjamin Schore ’59*
Columbia Business School
Barry S. Sternlicht
Starwood Capital Group
Sam Zell
Equity Group Investments
* Member of the Columbia Business School Real Estate Program Advisory Board.