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This list showcases the top New York based CFO’ operating in the Real Estate space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Tom Cashel
CFO of MetaProp
Tom Cashel serves as MetaProp’s Chief Financial Officer providing all support services required to leverage the team and run the business operations, including accounting, compliance, HR, strategic advice, budgeting and modeling. Tom also supervises the firm’s professional tax and fund administration vendors. Tom is also a Managing Director at Chatsworth Securities a Greenwich, CT based investment banking firm. Earlier, Tom was a Partner with Brookfield Financial in New York where he focused as a real estate investment banker on the senior living space to project the firm’s Toronto based healthcare expertise into the US marketplace. Prior to this Tom spent 7 years up to late 2013 working with Cushman & Wakefield running a Capital Markets team in the EMEA region. Tom started his career as an emerging market debt and derivatives trader predecessors to JP Morgan in New York, London and Warsaw and later as an investment banker at ING Barings, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and America’s Growth Capital. At DLJ and AGC where he served both banks as a Managing Director, Tom was heavily focused on technology business, including principal merchant banking investments. Tom managed DLJ’s JV with Poalim Capital Markets covering pre-IPO tech companies interested to list on the NASDAQ. Tom also spent several years working with a partner on US technology M&A transactions. Tom spent 12 years in the United States Coast Guard Reserve. He is a graduate of the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Management Training Program – Finance. He pursued non-matriculated course work towards a master’s in international relations at the University of Southern California in London before deciding he preferred to start work in banking and holds a BA from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Tom holds FINRA Series 7, 79 & 63 registrations and a New York State Real Estate Salesperson license.
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About MetaProp: MetaProp is a venture capital firm focused on the real estate technology industry.
SungHwan Cho
CFO & Director of Icahn Enterprises
SungHwan Cho has served as Chief Financial Officer of Icahn Enterprises L.P. and its general partner, Icahn Enterprises G.P., Inc., since March 2012 and as a director since September 2012. Prior to that time, he was Senior Vice President and previously Portfolio Company Associate at Icahn Enterprises and Icahn Enterprises Holdings from October 2006 to February 2012. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Cho served as director of finance for Atari, Inc., a publisher of interactive entertainment products. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Cho served as director of corporate development and director of product development at Talk America, a telecommunications provider to small business and residential customers. From 1996 to 1999, he was an investment banker at Salomon Smith Barney in New York and Tokyo.Mr. Cho has been a director of: The Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack, since February 2016; Ferrous Resources Limited, since June 2015;American Railcar Leasing LLC, since September 2013; CVR Refining GP, LLC, the general partner of CVR Refining, LP since January 2013; CVR Energy, Inc., since May 2012; CVR GP, LLC, the general partner of CVR Partners LP, since May 2012; Federal-Mogul Corporation, since May 2012; XO Holdings, a competitive provider of telecom services, since August 2011; American Railcar Industries, Inc., since June 2011; Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., a publisher of interactive entertainment products, from April 2010 until November 2013; WestPoint Home LLC since January 2008; PSC Metals Inc. since December 2006; and Viskase Companies, Inc. since November 2006. XO Holdings is indirectly controlled by Carl C. Icahn. Mr. Icahn also previously had a non-controlling interest in Take-Two Interactive Software through the ownership of securities. Mr. Cho brings to his service as a director his significant experience in leadership roles as director of various companies as discussed above. In particular, his service the as Chief Financial Officer of Icahn Enterprises and Icahn Enterprises Holdings enables him to understand the complex business and financial issues that we may face.
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About Icahn Enterprises: Icahn Enterprises L.P. (NASDAQ: IEP), a master limited partnership, is a diversified holding company engaged in nine primary business.
Thomas Landherr
Chief Financial Officer of Corigin
Mr. Landherr is the Chief Financial Officer of Corigin and is responsible for directing the company’s financial policies and oversees all financial functions. Mr. Landherr, a Certified Public Accountant, brings more than twenty years of accounting experience focused on real estate development, construction, and property management. Prior to joining Corigin, Mr. Landherr served as Vice President and Director of Development Accounting for New York-based Douglaston Development, a full service real estate development company specializing in New York City-based residential and mixed-use projects. Mr. Landherr received a BBA degree in accounting from Hofstra University and is a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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About Corigin: Corigin is a private real estate investment firm that specializes in owning, operating and developing multifamily assets.
Andrew Miller
CFO of Sopris Capital Associates
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About Sopris Capital Associates: Sopris Capital Associates, a U.S.-based investment firm, offers growth capital to healthcare and technology-enabled B2B service businesses.
David Nanidzhanyan
CFO of RueOne Investments
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About RueOne Investments: RueOne is a private investment firm making early to growth stage investments in FinTech / InsurTech / Enterprise Software.
Jai Agarwal
CFO of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
Jai Agarwal is the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary of our Company. Prior to joining ARI, he served as the chief financial officer and treasurer of CM Finance Inc. (Nasdaq: CMFN). Prior to CM Finance, Mr. Agarwal was a senior vice president in Blackstone’s real estate finance group and a director of finance and accounting at Capital Trust, the predecessor to Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE: BXMT). Prior to that, Mr. Agarwal held positions in finance and investments at iStar Inc. (NYSE: STAR). He holds a Bachelor of Science from University of Mumbai and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).
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About Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance: Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc is a commercial real estate finance company
Edward Gilpin
CFO PTMN – MLC – BCPL of BC Partners
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About BC Partners, KCAP Financial Inc.: BC Partners is an international alternative investment firm focused private equity, credit, real estate, and investment strategies.
Paul Yerich
CFO of Inspire
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About Harry’s, Inspire: Consumer technology platform that powers cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable homes.
Debra A. Hess
Chief Financial Officer of NorthStar Realty Finance
Ms. Hess is the Chief Financial Officer of NorthStar and has served in that position since July 2011. Ms. Hess most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of H/2 Capital Partners, a position she held from August 2008 until June 2011. From March 2003 until August 2008, Ms. Hess was a managing director at Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG), a global management firm, where she also served as Chief Financial Officer for one of its portfolio companies, Newcastle Investment Group (NYSE: NCT), a real estate investment and finance company. Earlier in her career, from 1993 through February 2003, Ms. Hess served in various capacities at Goldman, Sachs & Co. (NYSE:GS), including as Vice President in the Principal Finance Group and as a Manager of Financial Reporting in Goldman Sachs’ Finance Division. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Ms. Hess worked in the corporate credit policy group at Chemical Bank for two years and spent five years at Arthur Anderson & Co. as a supervisory senior auditor focused on financial services firms. Ms. Hess has a Masters’ in Business Administration in Finance from New York University and a Bachelors of Science in Accounting from the University of Connecticut.
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About NorthStar Realty Finance: NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. is an internally-managed real estate finance company formed in October 2003. Our shares are publicly traded
Jennifer Lawrence
Chief Financial Officer of Omni New York
Jennifer is the Chief Financial Officer of Omni New York, LLC. Prior to joining Omni New York in March 2008, Jennifer was the Controller of Northeast Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation (NEBHDCo), a non-profit affordable housing developer with properties in Brooklyn, New York. Jennifer was responsible for the day to day financial operations as well as ensuring financial compliance with all regulatory and private bank requirements for 16 affordable properties. Before joining NEBHDCo, Jennifer was the Finance and Technical Director for Muller & Associates, Inc. an executive recruiting firm in New York. Prior to that Jennifer was the Senior Consultant of the telecommunications group with The Carson Group which provides investor relations consulting to publicly traded companies. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from New York University.
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About Omni New York: Omni New York LLC (“ONY”) is a real estate development company.
Stephen Theriot
Chief Financial Officer of Vornado Realty Trust
Stephen W. Theriot is Chief Financial Officer of Vornado Realty Trust and is responsible for the accounting, financial reporting and tax activities of the Company. Stephen Theriot joined Vornado in June 2013 after 30 years at Deloitte & Touche LLP, where he was a Partner and most recently served as the leader of Deloitte’s Northeast Real Estate practice. Stephen Theriot earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
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About Vornado Realty Trust: Vornado Realty L.P. engages in the ownership and operation of office, retail, and showroom properties in the United States.
Eduardo Arreaga
Chief Financial Officer of Stavvy
Eduardo Arreaga is the Chief Financial Officer at Stavvy.
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About Stavvy: Stavvy is a modern lending platform designed to connect lenders with their title, settlement, and appraisal vendors.
Andrew Gregoire
CFO of Life Storage, Inc.
Chief Financial Officer of the Company since 2012. Previously, Andrew served as the Company’s Vice President of Finance from 1998 to 2012. Prior to joining Sovran, he was a Senior Manager at Ernst and Young LP where he was employed from 1988 to 1998. It was at Ernst & Young in which Andrew was introduced to Sovran during the Company’s Initial Public Offering in 1995. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants as well as the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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About Life Storage, Inc.: Life Storage, Inc. is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT).
John Rebele
Chief Financial Officer of Standard Industries
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About Standard Industries: Standard Industries is a global, diversified holding company with interests in building materials.
Craig J. Laurie
CFO of Brookfield Residential Properties
Craig J. Laurie is the CFO at Brookfield Residential Properties
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About Brookfield Residential Properties: Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. operates as a land developer and homebuilder in North America.
Anthony Graham Sadler
CFO of BGC Partners
Anthony Graham Sadler is the chief financial officer at BGC Partners.
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About BGC Partners: BGC Partners is a global brokerage company servicing the wholesale financial and real estate markets.
Robert Colligan
CFO of Chimera Investment Corporation
Robert Colligan serves as chief financial officer at Chimera Investment Corporation.
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About Chimera Investment Corporation: Chimera is a specialty finance company that operates as a real estate investment trust.
Neil Mohinani
CFO of ATLANT
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About ATLANT: Blockchain Real Estate Platform | Tokenized Ownership | P2P Rentals
Jumpei Shirasaki
Executive Officer / CFO of WealthPark
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About WealthPark: WealthPark is a digital asset management platform that connects investors and managers of real estate.
Glenn Gary Cohen
EVP & CFO of Kimco Realty Corporation
Glenn G. Cohen was appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of the Company in June 2010, and continues as Treasurer, a position he has held since 1997. Mr. Cohen directs the Company’s financial and capital strategy and oversees the day-to-day accounting, financial reporting and planning, tax, treasury and capital market activities. In addition, Mr. Cohen oversees the Information Technology group for the Company. Prior to joining Kimco in 1995 as Director of Accounting and Taxation, Mr. Cohen served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for U.S. Balloon Manufacturing Company, Chief Financial Officer for EMCO Sales and Service, L.P. and six years at the public accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand, LLP (predecessor to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP), where he served as a manager in the audit group. Mr. Cohen is a native Long Islander, received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the State University of New York at Albany in 1985 and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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About Kimco Realty Corporation: Kimco Realty is a real estate investment trust based in New Hyde Park, New York.
Marc Fox
Chief Financial Officer of Ladder Capital Finance
Marc Fox is the Chief Financial Officer at Ladder Capital Finance.
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About Ladder Capital Finance: Ladder Capital Finance is a specialty finance company that provides comprehensive financing solutions to the commercial real estate
Marc Fox
Chief Financial Officer of Ladder Capital Finance
Marc Fox is the Chief Financial Officer at Ladder Capital Finance.
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About Ladder Capital Finance: Ladder Capital Finance is a specialty finance company that provides comprehensive financing solutions to the commercial real estate
Allen Weisselberg
CFO of The Trump Organization
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About The Trump Organization: The Trump Organization operates, invests, and develops residential real estate, hotels, resorts, residential towers, and golf courses.
Glenn A. Votek
CFO of Annaly Capital Management
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About Annaly Capital Management: Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE:NLY) owns a portfolio of real estate related investments.
Darren Glickman
Chief Financial Officer of ETRE Financial
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About ETRE Financial: ETRE Financial is a liquid real estate company that enables users to take their buildings public via an IPO on the NASDAQ.
Artem Maslyuk
CFO of neibor
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About neibor: Making real estate a great experience! neibor:access now live!
Jay Disler
CFO of Spot On Networks
Jay Disler is our Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining us in 2009, Mr. Disler served as Chief Financial Officer for telecommunications and technology companies including Graphic Scanning Corp., ECCS, Inc. and FPI Thermoplastic Technologies. Previously, he served as Audit Manager at Deloitte and Touche. He received a B.A. and MBA from Rutgers University, and received his CPA license in New York and New Jersey.
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About Spot On Networks: Spot On Networks offers tech platforms that provide wireless broadband internet access to residential users in multifamily dwelling units.
Michael V. Pappagallo
CFO of Brixmor Property Group
Michael V. Pappagallo is the CFO at Brixmor Property Group.
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About Brixmor Property Group: Brixmor Property Group Inc. (Brixmor), is a internally-managed real estate investment trust
John Roche
CFO & CEO of ShopOne Centers REIT
Board Member at Materials Lifecycle Management Company
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About ShopOne Centers REIT: A private real estate investment.
Karen Katsoff
CFO of Star Real Estate
Karen Katsoff serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Star Real Estate.
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About Star Real Estate: Star Real Estate is a real estate firm that provides property relocation, transaction, and sales services.