At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top New York based CFO’ operating in the Commercial 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.
Alvin Khoo
Chief Financial Officer of GA Telesis
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About GA Telesis: GA Telesis a world-leading commercial aviation company.
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).
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.
K. Christopher Farkas
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Curtiss-Wright
Mr. Farkas was named Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Curtiss-Wright Corporation in 2020.
Prior to assuming his current responsibilities, he was named Vice President of Finance of Curtiss- Wright Corporation in December 2017, and previously held the
positions of Vice President and Corporate Controller since 2014, and also has served as Assistant Corporate Controller since May 2009
Prior to joining Curtiss-Wright, he spent more than 17 years in financial, technical and operational roles of increasing responsibility within Fortune 50/250
industrial companies including United Technologies Corporation and Parker Hannifin
Mr. Farkas possesses an MBA and an EMBA from two internationally ranked business schools. He holds an MBA from Purdue University. Krannert School of
Management and an EMBA from the ESCP Europe (European School of Management). In addition, he has a BS degree in Accounting from Central Connecticut
State University. He is a CPA and is a Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
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About Curtiss-Wright: Curtiss-Wright delivers engineered, critical function products and services to the commercial, industrial, defense, and energy markets.
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
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.