Stuart Brodsky
Director and Clinical Assistant Professor
Center for the Sustainable Built Environment
NYU School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate

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Stuart Brodsky
Clinical Assistant Professor and Director, Center for the Sustainable Built Environment, NYU School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate

Stuart Brodsky directs the development and administration of the curriculum for green and sustainable buildings for the NYUSPS Schack Institute of Real Estate’s undergraduate and masters degree programs in real estate development. As director of the Center for the Sustainable Built Environment, Brodsky leads the Center’s strategic development, and conference and lecture planning.

Prior to joining the NYU School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate, Brodsky was a senior member of GE Capital Real Estate’s Global Sustainability Team, where he led the design and integration of sustainable practices for GE’s $80 billion investment portfolio. From 1999 to 2008, Brodsky led the US EPA’s ENERGY STAR Program for commercial real estate. He oversaw the adoption of ENERGY STAR as the standard for energy performance of commercial buildings.

Brodsky holds a Master of Environmental Design from Yale School of Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Hobart College. He was the first federal employee and first non-member recipient of the BOMA Chairman’s Award.

Sam Chandan, PhD, FRICS
Larry & Klara Silverstein Chair in Real Estate Development and Investment and Associate Dean, NYU School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate

Sam Chandan, PhD, FRICS, is the Larry & Klara Silverstein Chair in Real Estate Development and Investment and associate dean of the NYU School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate. In addition, he is partner, global head of strategy, and a member of the investment committee at Capri Capital, a multinational investment management firm with $3.8 billion of assets under management in the United States and investment platforms in sub-Saharan Africa and India. He also is founder of Chandan Economics, a leading provider of multifamily and commercial real estate mortgage data and risk analytics, and cohost of The Real Estate Hour on SiriusXM Business Radio.

Chandan’s commentary on commercial and residential real estate markets and the broader economy has been featured regularly in national and global press, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNBC, and Bloomberg. Among his recent publications, he is the editor and coauthor of Real Estate Financing, published by PEI, and the lead investigator for “Regulatory Design and Real Outcomes,” a major study on the regulation of commercial real estate lending commissioned by the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC).

Chandan’s applied research is focused on commercial real estate capital markets and risk analytics. Leveraging his expertise in credit risk management and lender loss mitigation, he presents regular updates on commercial real estate lending trends to US and global regulators, including the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). He holds an honorary appointment as the economist laureate of the Real Estate Lenders Association and has served on the real estate advisory council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Chandan was previously the Laurence and Susan Hirsch Adjunct Associate Professor of Real Estate at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a visiting professor on the faculty of the Economics Department at Dartmouth College, and a doctoral scholar at Princeton. Prior to founding Chandan Economics, he was global chief economist and executive vice president at Real Capital Analytics (RCA). During his tenure as chief economist and senior vice president at Reis (NASDAQ: REIS), he was part of the executive team that took the company public.

Chandan earned his PhD in applied economics from The Wharton School and was a doctoral scholar in the Economics Department at Princeton University. In addition to real estate, his academic work has focused on issues relating to school access, housing affordability, and development economics. He holds graduate degrees in economics and engineering and an undergraduate degree in economics, finance, and public policy.

Brendan Coleman
Managing Director, Debt and Structured Finance Group
Walker & Dunlop

Brendan Coleman, managing director and head of Walker & Dunlop’s Washington, DC-based Debt and Structured Finance Group, is responsible for new loan origination and specializes in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac multifamily products, while also developing other lending relationships for the company’s Mid-Atlantic office. Coleman’s leadership and expertise also form key elements in the combined go-to-market structure for Walker & Dunlop’s lending and investment sales teams in the nation’s capital region.

Since joining Walker & Dunlop Multifamily Finance production group in 2007, Coleman and his team have originated more than 700 transactions totaling more than $10 billion in financing. Prior to joining Walker & Dunlop, Coleman served as a sales director with GMAC-RFC, a compliance underwriter at GE Capital Mortgage, and an account executive at Genworth Financial.

Coleman holds an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Virginia and a master of business administration from the University of Maryland.

Coleman is actively involved in the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) and is on the board of directors at Fair Chance, a nonprofit committed to combating homelessness and poverty in the nation’s capital.

Jonathan Flaherty
Senior Director, Sustainability and Utilities
Tishman Speyer

Jonathan Flaherty is a senior director, sustainability and utilities, at Tishman Speyer. Flaherty joined Tishman Speyer in 2007 and oversees global sustainability and health strategy, as well as global energy management and procurement. In this role, he manages sustainability certifications, investor communications, worldwide performance tracking, procurement strategy, and technological innovation implementation. Flaherty joined Tishman Speyer as part of the Leadership Development Program and has held various roles with the company, including in asset management and portfolio management for New York. Prior to joining the firm, he worked as a legislative aide in Washington, DC for Senator Chuck Schumer of New York. Flaherty is the chair of the board of directors for the Building Energy Exchange and is a team leader for the ACE Mentor Program. He holds a bachelor of arts in political science from Kenyon College and a master of business administration and master of urban planning from Columbia University.

Ivan Frishberg
First Vice President, Sustainability Banking
Amalgamated Bank

Ivan Frishberg leads Amalgamated Bank’s Sustainability Banking division. Frishberg works across the bank on a range of commercial banking, investment, and lending products that are designed to serve sustainability goals and the goals of clients in the energy, climate, and environmental communities.

Frishberg has more than 25 years of public interest advocacy, organizing, and policy experience. Previously, he was senior adviser and climate change campaign manager for Organizing for Action and a senior adviser to the Climate Action Campaign, a multiyear national coalition effort to defend the Clean Air Act and support new federal policies on climate and public health. Most recently, Frishberg directed the State Climate Hub, facilitating coordination of state-level efforts to implement the Clean Power Plan, and he worked with the Climate Briefing Service on the intersection of US climate advocacy and the recent international climate negotiations. He was nominated by Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser to serve on the board of directors for DC Water, the city’s public water and sewer authority.

David Gabrielson
Executive Director
PACENation

David Gabrielson is executive director of PACENation. He was introduced to property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing in 2009 while helping to develop Energize Bedford, an energy efficiency financing program and precursor to New York State’s Energize NY commercial PACE program, during his first of two terms on the Town Board of Bedford. Before his careers in energy efficiency and politics, Gabrielson spent more than 20 years as an investment banker to state and local governments, financing a wide range of capital facilities and programs at national firms, including Credit Suisse First Boston and J.P. Morgan. Gabrielson joined PACENation in late 2010 as its first staff member. A foundation- and member-supported nonprofit, PACENation is the national advocate for PACE financing; a source of information and resources; and a leader in developing PACE policies, best practices, and standards. Gabrielson earned a bachelor’s degree in economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and he holds a master’s degree in public and private management from Yale University.

Stephen M. Green
Chief Operating Officer/Chief Investment Officer
The NHP Foundation

Currently, Stephen M. Green serves as the chief operating officer and chief investment officer of The NHP Foundation (NHPF), a national nonprofit owner and developer of affordable and mixed-income housing. NHPF operates in 15 states and the District of Columbia. In his capacity as COO/CIO, Green is responsible for a broad range of activities involved in the ownership of more than 7,000 apartments and an active acquisition and development pipeline of more than 2,000 units.

Previously, as the director of the Office of Capital Programs for the District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA), Green was responsible for all of DCHA’s and its related subsidiaries’ construction, capital investment, and redevelopment programs. In this capacity, Green managed a staff of 100 individuals who were involved in construction inspection and oversight, contracts with other government agencies for maintenance and demolition, full-scale self-executed multifamily redevelopment projects, and major redevelopment projects executed in joint venture with private developers. Green oversaw the planning and development of more than 3,500 units.

Prior to joining DCHA, Green served as senior vice president of WC Smith, a 40-year-old family-owned real estate development and property management company headquartered in Washington, DC. In his role at WC Smith, Green was responsible for coordinating several large public/private development projects, including a now completed and occupied 314-unit apartment building in the NoMa area of the District of Columbia comprised of 220 market-rate units and 94 affordable units, and the Skyland, a 1.25 million square-foot mixed-use retail and residential development in southeast DC.

Prior to joining WC Smith in January 2007, Green served as the director of development for former Mayor Anthony A. Williams and the government of the District of Columbia. Green played a key role in developing housing policies and economic development strategies. During his tenure in the Williams administration, Green authored the Housing Act of 2002, which among other initiatives, introduced the first dedicated stream of local funding for affordable development in the District’s history. Additionally, the act created the then-new initiative to acquire and dispose of vacant and abandoned buildings in the District to eligible developers. During his seven-year tenure in the Williams administration, Green was responsible for providing financing commitments to more than 19,000 affordable units.

Bomee Jung
Vice President, Energy and Sustainability
New York City Housing Authority

Bomee Jung joined the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) in 2015 as vice president of energy and sustainability. She is the primary author of the NextGeneration NYCHA Sustainability Agenda, a part of the authority’s 10-year strategic plan to create clean, safe, and connected communities. The Sustainability Agenda includes 17 strategies to create healthy indoor environments, efficiently provide comfortable and reliable heat and hot water, improve water management, and address climate adaptation and resiliency. Energy goals include reducing energy use per square foot by 20 percent and developing 25 MW of renewable capacity, both by 2025.

Prior to joining NYCHA, Jung served in various leadership positions at Enterprise Community Partners, a national leader in greening affordable housing, and as a mayoral appointee on the City Planning Commission. During her tenure with Enterprise, Jung is credited with securing New York City’s adoption of the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria as its required standard for affordable housing; designing and managing a Weatherization Assistance Program that piloted a portfolio-based model; and designing Enterprise’s Sandy initiative to develop tools for long-term resiliency of multifamily affordable housing. In 2002, Jung founded GreenHomeNYC, a volunteer-driven sustainability nonprofit.

Jung holds a bachelor of arts in comparative literature and Japanese from the University of Georgia and a master in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Carolyn Kissane, PhD
Academic Director, Graduate Program in Global Affairs, and Clinical Associate Professor
Center for Global Affairs, NYU School of Professional Studies

Carolyn Kissane, PhD, serves as the academic director of the Graduate Program in Global Affairs at the NYU School of Professional Studies (NYUSPS) Center for Global Affairs, where she also is a clinical associate professor who teaches graduate-level courses that examine the geopolitics of energy, comparative energy politics, and the environment and resource security, as well as a regional course focusing on Central Asia.

Kissane is coordinator of the Energy and Environment concentration at the Center and is faculty adviser to the Energy Policy International Club. She was presented with the esteemed NYU Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007 and the NYUSPS Teaching Excellence Award in 2009, and she has been nominated for the university-wide NYU Distinguished Teaching Award in 2008, 2009, 2016, and 2018. Breaking Energy named her one of the “Top 10 New York Women in Energy” and one of the “Top 10 Energy Communicators.” She has received fellowships and awards from the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, the Fulbright-Hays Program, and IREX. She also is a recipient of a Boren Area and Language Studies Award.

In 2009, Kissane received a grant from the Canadian government to lead a group of students to the Canadian Oil Sands in Fort McMurray, Calgary. In 2013, with a grant from the Quebec government, she traveled with students to Quebec and Ottawa to examine the politics and security of the Arctic. Her work with Canada continues through event partnerships and a special series on the Arctic with the Government of Quebec.

In 2015, Kissane helped to launch the CGA/ACRE Clean Start Program, and she coleads a Global Field Intensive as part of the Revolutions in Sustainability: A US/German Perspective course. She hosts Fueling Our Future, a series she moderates that brings in energy and environment experts for conversation and debate. She serves on the Clean Start Advisory Board and is a member of the boards of the New York Energy Forum and New York Energy Week.

Fred Lee
Director of Legal Affairs and Finance
New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation

As director of legal affairs and finance, Fred Lee manages the day-to-day legal and financial affairs of the New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation (NYCEEC), in addition to leading underwriting and execution of new transactions and projects.

Lee has experience in clean tech, real estate finance, and the public sector. Prior to joining NYCEEC, he was assistant director of the Center for Economic Transformation at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where he led the clean technology and energy team. He served as project lead on a variety of energy efficiency and renewable energy projects and focused generally on developing the clean technology and energy sectors in New York City. Prior to entering the energy-related industry, Lee was a structured finance attorney, focusing on securitization of real estate-related securities.

Lee holds an MBA with a concentration in real estate finance from Columbia Business School, a JD from Cornell Law School, and a BA from Amherst College.

Lesley Lisser
Director, Senior Asset Manager
Invesco Real Estate

Lesley Lisser joined Invesco Real Estate as a director, senior asset manager in June 2012. As the Northeast regional head of Invesco’s national multifamily platform, Lisser oversees approximately 3,000 units from Charlotte to Boston totaling $2 billion. Her responsibilities include managing and further developing the Instrata Lifestyle Portfolio, consisting of five properties totaling 900 units located in New York City. Prior to this appointment in July 2016, she ran an office, industrial, multifamily, and retail portfolio in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, including 230 Park Avenue, which sold for $1.2 billion in 2015. She has more than 24 years of real estate asset management experience, including asset management positions at Lehman Brothers Holdings, Wafra Investment Advisory Group, the Brookfield Opportunity Fund, and Emmes Asset Management.

Lisser earned a master of science in real estate and a diploma in construction management from the NYU School of Professional Studies and a bachelor of fine arts from Syracuse University. She is a LEED AP and holds a New York State salesperson license and BOMA RPA designation. Lisser is a member of CREW NY and REBNY and is a conference speaker focusing on asset management and women in real estate. She previously held the position of vice chair of the volunteer committee for the UJA-Federation of New York’s Real Estate and Allied Trades Division. Lisser is involved with charitable organizations, including Invesco Cares and Rebuilding Together NYC.

Timon Malloy
President
Fred F. French Investing Company

Timon Malloy is the third generation in his family to own and operate the Fred F. French Investing Company, a real estate and investment management company. He has been involved with the planning, design, redevelopment, construction, purchase, and sale of numerous development and redevelopment projects. Malloy’s grandfather, Aaron Rabinowitz, entered the commercial real estate business in New York in 1902 when he founded Spear and Company, which later became Helmsley Spear. Malloy also has led several private business development projects, ranging from a chain of brewpub restaurants in San Francisco to urban renewal projects in Connecticut and New Hampshire. A recent project was a “deep green” major renovation of a 1970s-era office building in Westport, Connecticut, which included the use of a $1 million CPACE loan. The CPACE loan-funded project included complete replacement of the building envelope and installation of new mechanical systems, insulation, and solar panels. Malloy is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Graduate School of Business Administration at New York University. Malloy is a longstanding environmentalist and activist with a particular interest in air and water quality issues in the greater New York metro region, and he recently joined the board of Riverkeeper.

Chrissa Pagitsas
Director, Green Financing Business Multifamily
Fannie Mae

Chrissa Pagitsas is the director of Fannie Mae Multifamily’s Green Financing Business. Under Pagitsas’ leadership, the Green Financing Business’s portfolio has grown to more than $23 billion through the third quarter of 2017. She is responsible for creating market-transforming innovations in the financing industry, such creating the Green MBS, launching mortgage loan products that finance green building-certified properties and energy/water efficient investments, and determining how to integrate green cost savings into conventional mortgage underwriting.

Pagitsas regularly advises national, state, and local policy on the intersection of energy efficiency and housing. She initiated and led the project to create the EPA’s ENERGY STAR score for existing multifamily properties across the United States.

Prior to Fannie Mae, Pagitsas implemented environmental sustainability strategies for real estate owners and large-scale utility data and financial management solutions for utility companies in the US and Europe.

Pagitsas is the secretary-treasurer and a board member of the US Green Building Council. Pagitsas holds an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and a BA from Johns Hopkins University.

Cherie Santos-Wuest
Managing Partner
Celadon Venture Advisors

Cherie Santos-Wuest is the managing partner for Celadon Venture Advisors, where she provides investment strategy and real estate portfolio consultation for family trust offices and real estate operating companies on institutional investment strategies, ESG integration, and impact investment initiatives. Previously, she was principal investment officer in real estate for the Connecticut state pension funds, where she managed $2.5 billion in commitments to real estate investments. Prior to this, Santos-Wuest served in various capacities at TIAA-CREF, among these as director in TIAA’s Global Social and Community Investments group, where she managed the program’s more than $580 million debt and equity RE portfolio and launched the $50 million Green Building Technology Program venture capital fund. In other roles at TIAA, Santos-Wuest served as a director in TIAA’s Global Private Markets group, where she was responsible for originating more than $1.2 billion in large loan investments in various territories across the United States and Canada.

Santos-Wuest has served on multiple advisory committees of real estate funds and venture capital companies. She helped to launch and served as chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Responsible Property Investment Council, and she served as vice chair of the board of directors of Impact Community Capital, a for-profit CDFI that structures and manages insurance company investments in socially responsive investments in communities in California and nationally. Santos-Wuest currently serves as a board trustee for the NHP Foundation, a not-for-profit real estate organization that is dedicated to preserving and creating sustainable, service-enriched, affordable housing, for which she serves on the investment, audit, and compensation committees.

Santos-Wuest holds a BS in architecture from the University of Virginia, a master of science in architecture from Yale University, and a master of science in real estate development from MIT.

Cherie Santos-Wuest
Managing Partner
Celadon Venture Advisors

Cherie Santos-Wuest is the managing partner for Celadon Venture Advisors, where she provides investment strategy and real estate portfolio consultation for family trust offices and real estate operating companies on institutional investment strategies, ESG integration, and impact investment initiatives. Previously, she was principal investment officer in real estate for the Connecticut state pension funds, where she managed $2.5 billion in commitments to real estate investments. Prior to this, Santos-Wuest served in various capacities at TIAA-CREF, among these as director in TIAA’s Global Social and Community Investments group, where she managed the program’s more than $580 million debt and equity RE portfolio and launched the $50 million Green Building Technology Program venture capital fund. In other roles at TIAA, Santos-Wuest served as a director in TIAA’s Global Private Markets group, where she was responsible for originating more than $1.2 billion in large loan investments in various territories across the United States and Canada.

Santos-Wuest has served on multiple advisory committees of real estate funds and venture capital companies. She helped to launch and served as chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Responsible Property Investment Council, and she served as vice chair of the board of directors of Impact Community Capital, a for-profit CDFI that structures and manages insurance company investments in socially responsive investments in communities in California and nationally. Santos-Wuest currently serves as a board trustee for the NHP Foundation, a not-for-profit real estate organization that is dedicated to preserving and creating sustainable, service-enriched, affordable housing, for which she serves on the investment, audit, and compensation committees.

Santos-Wuest holds a BS in architecture from the University of Virginia, a master of science in architecture from Yale University, and a master of science in real estate development from MIT.

Bruce Schlein
Director, Community Reinvestment Act Business Strategy
Citi

Bruce Schlein is a director in Citi’s Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Business Strategy group, for which he develops clean-energy solutions for low- and moderate-income households and communities. He recently transitioned from Citi’s Alternative Energy Finance (AEF) group in Capital Markets Origination. Prior to AEF, Schlein served as director of corporate sustainability, working with Citi business and operations units to identify and develop solutions for emerging environmental and social issues and opportunities. Previously, he worked as a sustainability specialist for Bechtel on petrochemical and civil projects in China and Romania and for international development agencies, including Save the Children, Catholic Relief Services in Bosnia Herzegovina, and the Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea. Schlein is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a master’s degree in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Schlein serves on the board of the New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation (NYCEEC).

Nicholas E. Stolatis
Vice President
EPN Real Estate Services

Nicholas E. Stolatis is vice president of EPN Real Estate Services, leading the asset management and sustainability practice for the firm. He previously served as senior director of Global Sustainability and Enterprise Initiatives at TIAA, where he created the award-winning Global Real Estate Sustainability Initiative and supported the firm’s CSR and impact investing platforms. Prior to that role, Stolatis was a regional director in charge of asset and portfolio management for a diverse national portfolio of investments representing all asset classes.

Stolatis earned a BBA magna cum laude from Baruch College and an MBA cum laude from NYU, and he holds the CPM, RPA, and LEED AP designations.

Stolatis is the vice chairman of the Building Owners and Managers Institute International (BOMI) Board of Trustees, the current treasurer and past president of the Greater NY Chapter of IREM, and one of 18 global subject matter experts on the International Property Measurement Standards Coalition’s Standards Setting Committee.

Vincent Toye
Managing Director, Head of Production
Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital
Wells Fargo & Company

Vincent Toye is a managing director and head of GSE National Production for Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital, which specializes in government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) financing through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac programs and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured financing. Toye is based out of the group’s New York City office.

Toye is responsible for managing the GSE originations team, increasing production, and overseeing Wells Fargo’s relationships with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He also oversees growth of Wells Fargo’s regional and national borrower relationships and is responsible for building cross-sell relationships with other Wells Fargo business groups.

Prior to his current role, he held a similar role with Wachovia Multifamily Capital from 2006 until 2009. Before that, Toye was a vice president at Fannie Mae, responsible for multifamily customer management at the Eastern Business Center (EBC), reporting to the vice president for multifamily sales and marketing. Toye managed the multifamily EBC and its eight lender and large borrower relationships. The EBC lenders generated in excess of $7 billion in financings between 2005 and 2006. Toye joined Fannie Mae in 2001 as director of marketing for affordable and capital markets. He was named head of the Midwest Regional Office in May 2003.

Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Toye was senior vice president at First Union National Bank, where he held various roles in the SBA Lending Group, Community Development Lending Group, and the Consumer Banking Group. Before First Union, he was at M&T Bank and Chemical Bank.

Toye earned a BS in aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia, where he was a three-year letterman for the football team and was named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Football Team. He earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Richard C. Yancey
Executive Director
Building Energy Exchange

Richard C. Yancey, AIA, LEED AP, is the founding executive director of the Building Energy Exchange (BE-Ex), an independent nonprofit organization that connects the New York real estate and design communities to energy and lighting efficiency solutions through education, exhibitions, technology demonstrations, and research at its resource center in downtown Manhattan.

The work of BE-Ex has been featured widely, including by The Wall Street Journal, Crain’s, Capital New York, and NY1. Breaking Energy named Yancey one of the “Top 10 New York Energy Entrepreneurs” in 2015 and one of the “Top 10 Cleantech Leaders of New York” in 2013. He received the New York Energy Consumers Council Award for Energy Leadership and City & State’s Sustainability & Environmental Impact Award in 2017.

Prior to BE-Ex, Yancey had more than 20 years of experience as a practicing architect in Seattle and New York, leading a diverse array of award-winning commercial, institutional, and residential projects. He has lectured and published widely, and he served on the New York City Mayor’s Climate Action Plan Technical Working Group. Yancey earned his master of architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.