estate, which will have a dramatic impact on both property values
and investment holdings,” she says. “I also foresee the further
globalization of select cities around the world—but only two or
three in the US.”
Foster is co-founder of the Committee of Professional Women,
a networking organization of senior executive women from
diverse industries. She’s also working on a book about her experiences as a female executive in a male-dominated environment,
which she plans to publish in the next several years.
Judith Fryer
Co-Chair, REITs
Greenberg Traurig LLP
New York City
Fryer focuses her practice on public and private offerings, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and takeovers involving REITs and
partnerships. She is one of the few women
(and non-REIT executives) ever to serve on
the executive committee of the National
Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts.
“It’s essential that women in the real estate industry learn to
perfect their skills in developing business,” Fryer says. “Unlike
when I first joined NAREIT 20 years ago, when there were only
three women active in the organization, women are now playing
and will increasingly play major roles in the REIT industry.
Today we have great female role models who lead major public
REITs, and many other female professionals, including lawyers,
accountants and investment specialists.”
Alicia Glen
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs
New York City
A multifamily specialist, Glen recently closed a
$100-million joint venture fund with L&M
Development Partners to create infill mixed-use
and mixed-income projects in urban areas across
the US. She also closed an $18-million equity
investment with BRP Development to build
three developments in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
“The private sector can make sound investments that are critical
to the revitalization of underserved and often overlooked neighborhoods in our urban centers,” she says. “Being able to invest Goldman
Sachs’ capital in projects that have a positive social impact on the
built environment is the best career anyone could have.”
Laura Hannusch
Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Houston
Hannusch represents clients in connection
with sale and leasing transactions, mortgages,
mezzanine loans and entity formations. Her
main focus is on office properties, but she’s
also involved with retail, industrial and hospitality assets as well as mixed-use developments, infrastructure projects and renewable
energy ventures. She represents Pillsbury as a member of Central
