The new board members include: Nicola M. Heryet, senior managing director with Colliers ABR, now part of Cassidy Turley; Augustus B. Field IV, EVP at Cushman & Wakefield; and Simon Ziff, president of Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group. William Montana, senior managing director at Studley, is remaining as the chairman of the commercial board. Robert A. Nager, executive managing director for Murray Hill Properties' retail leasing division, will similarly begin his second year as the vice chairman of the commercial board.
"Each of our new appointees will bring invaluable experience and knowledge, and we are pleased to have them join us on the board," says REBNY president Steven Spinola in a release. He adds that Montana and Nager have been "valuable assets" in their leadership capacities on the commercial board of last year.
On REBNY's residential board of directors, new members include: Rebecca M. Mason, executive director of Caran Properties, Jeffrey Weisbord, principal of Jeffrey Weisbord Real Estate; and Hall Willkie, president of Brown Harris Stevens. Tresa Hall, EVP of the Corcoran Group, was elected member at large.
At its 114h annual banquet Thursday evening at the New York Hilton, REBNY will present David R. Greenbaum, president of Vornado Realty Trust's New York office division, with its Bernard H. Mendik Lifetime Leadership in Real Estate Award. Other honorees include Samuel H. Lindenbaum, counsel at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, who will receive the Harry B. Helmsley Distinguished New Yorker Award; Robert A. Knakal, chairman of Massey Knakal Realty Services and GlobeSt.com blogger, who will receive the Louis Smadbeck Broker Recognition Award; the Paramount Group's Ralph K. DiRuggiero, recipient of the George M. Brooker Management Executive of the Year Award; Warburg Realty's Frederick W. Peters, who will receive the Kenneth R. Gerrety Humanitarian Award of the Year Award; and this year's Young Real Estate Man of the Year, Todd E. Korren of Swig Equities.
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Paul Bubny
Paul Bubny is managing editor of Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. He has been reporting on business since 1988 and on commercial real estate since 2007. He is based at ALM Real Estate Media Group's offices in New York City.
