Real Estate Forum - July August 2011

As an owner of an 83-year-old family business, Rose is actively shaping the future of Rose Associates by developing the firm’s third-party advisory services. Since becoming the firm’s co-president in 2008, she has seen its leasing and sales assignments grow by 14,453 units, while its management portfolio has grown by 15,246 units. In all, she has increased Rose’s leasing, sales and management portfolio by more than 60% over the past three years. The firm’s combined portfolio of owned and third-party service assignments now comprises 90 buildings and more than 37,500 units. “I am invigorated by the leadership role women are taking in New York City real estate,” says Rose. “Of special note are Mary Ann Tighe’s accomplishments; she is the first female chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York. I am also pleased to see more and more women take leadership roles in financial services and other industries connected to the business of real estate.”

ously concentrated in New York City and the Northeast, took on national scope this past summer when she was promoted to chief operating officer of JLL’s energy and sustainability services practice. She’s spearheading the growth of this practice’s depth and breadth, which currently numbers nearly 650 LEED-accredited professionals nationwide. Prior to taking on the national COO role, Savitsky was a managing director in JLL’s project and development services practice in the Northeast. In that capacity, she served as project director for the Durst Organization’s Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park, a 2.1-million-square-foot, LEED Platinum office tower in Midtown Manhattan. She sees that project as the “icing on the cake” of her career thus far, but says that as COO of the ESS practice, she has set her sights on new goals.

JEAN SAVITSKY

Chief Operating Officer, Energy and Sustainability Services

Jones Lang LaSalle New York City

Savitsky’s focus on eco-friendliness, previ-

DARCY STACOM

Vice Chairman

CB Richard Ellis New York City

Co-head of CBRE’s Investment Properties Institutional Group in New York City with William Shanahan, Stacom was crowned the “Queen of the Skyscrapers” by the Wall

Street Journal in 1997. She’s maintained that reputation ever since, closing more than $50

billion in sales, financing, joint venture, leasehold and development transactions over the course of her career. In 2010, Stacom was CBRE’s number one investment sales professional, and closed nine of the top 10 investment deals in New York City. Thus