Global Leaders in Real Estate Summit

Thomas J. Henry is Co-Head of Weil’s Real Estate practice and is based in New York. Tom has been the leading lawyer on some of the country’s largest and most high-profile commercial real estate transactions in recent years. His practice focuses on advising domestic and foreign real estate companies, private equity funds, and institutional lenders and investors in acquisitions and dispositions, financings, joint ventures, restructurings, and leasing and development transactions both in the United States and internationally involving all major real estate sectors.

Tom is recognized as a leading lawyer for Real Estate by Chambers USA 2024 and is recognized nationally as a leading practitioner by The Legal 500 US 2024, where he is described as being “in a class of his own” and “should be considered one of the best if not the best real estate attorney in the country,” further underscoring that “he has a combination of legal precision and a business acumen that is difficult to match.” Additionally, Tom was profiled as a Law360 MVP in 2014, 2015 and 2020 and was previously recognized as a Rising Star in 2012. He is also a former member of the Law360’s Real Estate Advisory Board.

Tom is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the New York City Bar Association. He is also a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT), the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) and the International Conference of Shopping Centers (ICSC).

Ralph Rosenberg (New York) joined KKR in 2011 and is a Partner and the Global Head of KKR's Real Estate Platform. Mr. Rosenberg is Chairman of the Board of Directors of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc., Chairman of the Board of Directors of KKR Real Estate Select Trust, and a member of the Board of Directors of KKR Realty Japan Management. Prior to joining KKR, he was a partner at Eton Park Capital Management and managed his own firm, R6 Capital Management, which later merged into Eton Park. Previously, Mr. Rosenberg was a partner at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Rosenberg is a member of the Board of AFIRE, a Governor of the Urban Land Institute Foundation, and serves on the Brown University Investment Committee and the Investment Committee of the Urban Land Institute. He is a former global and U.S. Trustee of the Urban Land Institute, former chair of the Board of Directors of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) and a former member of the Board of Directors of the PREA Foundation. He is an Emeriti Member of the Brown University Corporation and is an Honorary Trustee of the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, Illinois. He is also a former trustee of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Trust and a former trustee and former vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Mr. Rosenberg holds an undergraduate degree from Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude, and holds an M.B.A from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dean Adler is CEO and Founder of Lubert-Adler Partner, L.P., a real estate equity firm with over $7 billion in equity and $17 billion of assets under management. He serves as head of the investment committee and is responsible for leading the strategic direction of the firm.
Adler began his career at Ernst & Young, Baker and Hostetler and CMS. He is an Executive Committee Member and Research Sponsor for the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center of The Wharton School. He has been a keynote speaker for national real estate organizations such as the Urban Land Institute and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Adler has served on numerous community boards and has served on the City of Philadelphia’s Economic Development Summit.
Prior to founding Lubert-Adler, Adler graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a J.D. degree with honors from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was an instructor at the Wharton School.

Jay A. Neveloff advises a broad range of clients involved with the development, ownership and financing of real estate projects, including high-profile mixed-use, commercial, retail, and residential projects in New York City and throughout the country. A nationally recognized transactional lawyer, Jay represents institutional and private equity funds, as well as other investors, in joint ventures, in the acquisition and sale of property, including portfolios of properties, and in connection with a broad variety of developments. He also represents major international funds and financial institutions in commercial lending transactions, preferred equity investments, loan restructurings and workouts.

Francis Greenburger is an American real estate developer, literary agent, author, art collector, philanthropist, and founder of Time Equities Inc., Art Omi, Inc., and the Greenburger Center for Social & Criminal Justice. Francis Greenburger is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Time Equities Inc. Founded in 1966, Time Equities Inc. (TEI) has been in the real estate investment, development, and asset & property management business for more than 50 years. He is also the Chairman of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (SJGA), a literary agency founded by his father in 1932. He is the Founder and Chairman of Art Omi and Art Omi Pavilions, a sculpture and architecture park, unique museum complex, and arts center founded in 1992, which also provides residencies for visual artists, writers, dancers, musicians, and architects from all over the world. Most recently, Mr. Greenburger founded the Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice in 2014, which advocates for reforms to the criminal justice and mental health systems. He also serves on the board of several not for profit organizations and is an active donor to over 300 charitable organizations. Mr. Greenburger graduated from Baruch College in 1974 with a degree in Public Administration. He is an avid tennis player and traveler. He resides in Manhattan with his wife, Isabelle Autones, and is the proud father of four children: Morgan, Noah, Julia, and Claire.

Kim Hourihan is Chief Investment Officer for CBRE Real Estate Investments (“REI”). In this role, she is responsible for the overall investment strategy for REI, including investing CBRE capital into CBRE Investment Management investment programs and Trammell Crow Company development deals.

Kim previously served as CIO – Americas Direct Real Estate Strategies for CBRE Investment Management and Portfolio Manager for one of the firm’s comingled funds. As CIO, Kim was responsible for the product strategy of the Americas. As Portfolio Manager, she was responsible for all aspects of the fund, including strategy, acquisitions, disposition and fund management. She also has served as a Managing Director and the Portfolio Manager for two international sovereign wealth fund clients, with total assets under management of more than $4 billion representing 11.7 million square feet. In this position, Kim was responsible for client relations, portfolio management, asset management, acquisitions and dispositions.

Kim is passionate about strategic thinking, continuous learning and creative problem-solving for her clients. She enjoys the tangibility of real estate, the challenge of launching new entities and the opportunity to support and coach senior talent. 

Prior to joining CBRE Investment Management in 2007, Kim was Senior Vice President at Starwood Capital Group. Previously, Kim was Partner and Regional Director at TA Associates Realty. Prior to that, she was Senior Vice President at the Georgetown Holding in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, directing multiple acquisitions ranging from a bank in Geneva to a magazine in Hong Kong. Kim began her career in 1990 at U.S. Trust Company where she was responsible for construction lending on real estate.

Kim earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston College and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard University. She is a member of the NCREIF Reporting Standards Board and was named one of PERE’s 2021 Women of Influence.

Clarke Hitch is a Managing Director in the Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies Group, where he is involved in sourcing, underwriting, negotiating and structuring senior loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity and other debt investments across all asset types and geographies throughout the U.S.

Prior to joining Blackstone in 2013, Mr. Hitch worked at Morgan Stanley in the Commercial Real Estate Lending Group.

Mr. Hitch graduated from Duke University with an AB in Public Policy.

Joel Traut (New York) joined KKR in 2015 and is a member of the Real Estate team. He serves as Head of Originations for KKR Real Estate Credit and is responsible for business development, the origination process and team coordination across the real estate direct lending business. In addition, he is involved in sourcing, underwriting, negotiating and structuring debt investments across all credit products, asset types and geographies.  Mr. Traut graduated summa cum laude from the University of Kentucky and holds a B.B.A. in Finance and Marketing. Mr. Traut serves on the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics’ Finance Advisory Board. Mr. Traut is currently a member of the Urban Land Institute, Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, and National Association of Industrial and Office Properties ('NAIOP') where he sits on its Capital Markets Council.

David G. Moss practices in the area of real estate law. Mr. Moss has extensive experience in acquisitions and dispositions, mortgage and mezzanine lending, real estate development and restructuring of distressed real estate transactions. Mr. Moss routinely represents developers, lenders, investors, landlords and tenants in a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions including joint ventures and workouts, as well as disputes and litigation-related matters. 

Mr. Moss is a 1999 graduate of George Washington University Law School and a cum laude graduate of Albion College.

Alan Todd is head of U.S. Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) Research and a member of the CREFC Board of Governors. In this role he is responsible for providing in-depth analysis and macro-level overviews of the CMBS, CMBX and commercial real estate markets. 

Alan brings over 20 years of CMBS experience to this role and is highly regarded for his recommendations and timely market calls. Alan correctly called the recovery of the CMBS market since the 2009 bottom and the decline of the CMBS market in 2008. Alan has been ranked in the top 3 for CMBS strategy in the Institutional Investor All-America Fixed Income Research team survey in each of the last fourteen years. 

Alan joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in August of 2011 from J.P. Morgan, where he was head of CMBS research since 2005. Previously he spent five years at Bear Stearns, also in CMBS Research. Alan received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, his Master’s degree in Finance from Vanderbilt University and is a CFA Charter holder.

Diann Hsueh joined CBRE Investment Management in 2010. Diann is the Deputy Portfolio Manager for CBRE Strategic Partners U.S. Value 8 and 9 and is responsible for driving each fund’s investment performance. She played a key role in prior capital raising efforts, yielding over $4.9 billion in equity commitments for CBRE Strategic Partners U.S. Value 7, 8 and 9.

From 2010 to 2017, Diann was a member of the firm’s acquisitions team, responsible for underwriting, negotiating, structuring and closing transactions throughout the U.S. Diann was directly involved in the acquisition, financing and disposition of over $3.0 billion in investments.

Prior to joining CBRE Investment Management, Diann was a member of the Asset Management team at CenterSquare Investment Management.

Diann earned a Bachelor of Science degree, cum laude, in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the CBRE Women’s Network and the CBRE Asia Pacific Network. Diann previously served as a committee leader for CBRE Investment Management’s Real Estate Network of Executive Women (RENEW).

Paul Fine (New York) joined KKR in 2015 and is a member of the Real Estate team. He is responsible for sourcing and executing debt investments across KKR’s real estate credit strategies. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Fine was a director at Cantor Fitzgerald where he helped to set up the real estate finance platform and was responsible for loan originations. He began his career at Credit Suisse in the real estate finance group. Mr. Fine graduated from Cornell University, magna cum laude, with a B.S. in Applied Economics and Management.

Bonnie Neuman is a co-chair of Cadwalader’s Finance Group, head of the firm’s Real Estate Finance practice, and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. She represents global investment banks, financial institutions, investors, and servicers in domestic and cross-border transactions, specializing in mortgage and mezzanine loans, syndication, loan servicing, non-performing loan securitizations, loan restructuring, and bankruptcy-related matters. She also handles inter-creditor arrangements and secondary market sales of mortgage and mezzanine loans.

In 2022, Bonnie was recognized as a Hospitality MVP by Law360 and a leading real estate finance lawyer by Chambers USA. She has received accolades from The Best Lawyers in America, GlobeSt. Real Estate Forum, Lawdragon, Legal Media Group, and Connect CRE. Bonnie was honored as one of Crain’s New York’s "Notable Women in Law" and "Notable Diverse Leaders in Law."  Bonnie is actively involved in professional organizations like the CREFC Women’s Network and serves as the Co-Chair of the Membership Committee.

Lee is a managing director in the Real Estate Group within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, serving as co-head of US Real Estate Credit Investing. He joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2017.
Prior to joining the firm, Lee spent seven years at TPG and Deutsche Bank, where he was a managing director and a founding member of TPG Real Estate Finance, a carve out of Deutsche Bank’s Commercial Real Estate Special Situations Group business. Before joining Deutsche Bank, he held positions at Centerbridge, Morgan Stanley and LNR Property Corp.

Lee is a member of the executive committee of the Board of Directors of Jewish Community Project Downtown.

Lee earned a BSBA in Finance, magna cum laude, from the University of Florida in 2002.

Yorick Starr is Senior Director of Structured Investments with Invesco Real Estate ("IRE"). Based in New York, Yorick is primarily responsible for loan originations covering the East Coast region, with an emphasis on the primary and gateway markets. Loan products are focused on non-recourse, floating-rate, transitional senior and subordinate loans (including mezzanine loans and B-notes) secured by institutional quality real estate. Prior to Invesco, Yorick worked at Wells Fargo for 15 years in Real Estate Merchant Banking division, with experience ranging from opportunistically acquiring commercial real estate loans (single notes & pools) in the secondary market and providing leverage on commercial real estate loans acquisitions (performing loans through NPL pools) as well as leveraging direct originations by debt funds (A/B, senior/sub, note-on-note, & repo structures).

Yorick is a graduate of the University of San Diego (BBA, Finance, Accounting, IT, Computer Science).

Michael Eglit is a Senior Managing Director and Head of U.S. Originations in Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies (“BREDS”) group. Since joining Blackstone, Mr. Eglit has been involved in sourcing, underwriting, negotiating and structuring debt investments across all asset types and geographies.

Before joining Blackstone in 2010, Mr. Eglit was with Wrightwood Capital where he underwrote and originated first mortgages, mezzanine loans and preferred equity.

Mr. Eglit received a BA from Lehigh University and an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Eric is responsible for treasury, investment management, and pension fund accounting. He serves as a Trustee on the Classified Employees Retirement Fund Board, Other Post- Employment Benefit (OPEB) Board, Defined Contribution Retirement Plan Board and City’s Investment Advisory Committee. Eric is a Trustee on the Town of Fairfield Employee Retirement Board and Joint Retirement Investment Board. Prior to entering government finance, Eric held finance positions at Royal Bank of Scotland, IBM Global Financing, Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Price Waterhouse and Soros Fund Management. Eric received his B.B.A. in Accounting from Adelphi University; Certificate in Investment Banking from New York University, M.B.A. in Finance from Sacred Heart University and is pursuing a Corporate Finance Certificate at Harvard University. He is a Certified Public
Accountant (CPA) and a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA).

Mayor Eric Adams appointed Anthony “Tony” Giordano to the New York City Public School Board in January 2023. The School Board appointment includes board membership on the $8 Billion NYC Board of Education Retirement System (BERS). Leveraging his professional experience, Giordano’s colleagues elected him to the BERS Executive Committee & the School Board Chair designated Giordano her proxy to the NYC Teachers Retirement System ($95 Billion).

Professionally, Giordano founded Legacy Partners USA, LLC, a full-service business development consultancy in 2014. Prior to launching Legacy Partners, Mr. Giordano had a distinguished twenty-year career on Wall Street, serving as Director of Sales and Marketing at hedge fund of funds, Larch Lane Advisors; Director of Pension Strategies at Credit Suisse USA; and was a senior vice president at Bank of New York affiliate, Converg Ex. Prior to Wall Street, Giordano was a City Hall lobbyist with Montalbano Initiatives, representing the interests of several labor unions and quasi-governmental agencies.

Brooklyn College (CUNY) prepared Giordano well for his current role as an education policy maker and fiduciary, as he was elected to 2 consecutive terms as chairperson of the University Student Senate (USS) and student member of the City University of New York Board of Trustees, while earning a BA in Political Science.

Giordano currently serves on the board of Bertha Lewis’ action tank, The Black Institute and on the Advisory Board of the New American Alliance. Giordano also directed the mentor program while serving the board of tenant advocacy group, Palante Harlem, and is a supporter of Kentucky-based Sparrow Missions, leading missionary teams of Wall Street professionals to Honduras in 2013 and 2014.

Tony Giordano is most importantly a proud father and husband. His two undergrad daughters, Kira (22) and Devin (20), are respectively preparing for Law and Med school. Mr. Giordano is married to New York City immigration attorney, Aizhan “Aya Baltabek” Yerezhepova.

Paul has been a union man since he was 17. He worked his way up from journeyman to lead carpenter then to foreman, and super for an interior systems contractor. Paul wasn’t just committed to union values, he also wanted to put that passion to work in leadership. This carried him to a number of positions at the Local 157 and the Manhattan and Queens Rep Centers. In 2020, he was elected to his current position. Paul’s rich experience from every level of the union means he understands the needs and concerns of our members. He puts that experience to use leading the New York City District Council of Carpenters by advocating for union values at all levels of government.