SARA SHANK, 40
Managing Director
Beacon Capital Partners
Boston
It may be more expedient to list what Sara
Shank hasn’t done in her career. Not only promoted from associate to managing director in
less than 10 years, she was made head of portfolio management at age 38 for a company
with more than 30 million square feet in the US and Europe.
Shank has managed more than $10 billion in real estate acquisitions, including $4.7 billion for Equity Office Properties. She managed dispositions of assets and fund portfolios totaling more than
$7 billion, including the sale of Beacon Capital Partners Fund II’s
multiple properties to Broadway Partners and was the first portfolio manager for Beacon Capital Partners. At Beacon, Shank created the reforecasting process and is chair of the portfolio committee, responsible for asset and fund-level projections and reforecasts,
acquisition due diligence and hold/sell analyses. She is also a voting member of the investment committee and founder/chair of
the credit committee.
ALON SHNITZER, 35
Senior Managing Partner
ABI Multifamily
Phoenix
Given his current age, Shnitzer has accomplished more than some of his counterparts
who have been in the business much longer.
In 2007, Shnitzer helped Bascom with its multifamily portfolio, which ended up accounting for the largest multifamily transaction in Phoenix’s history, of
which more than $104 million was his direct responsibility. After
he began his career with and spent 10 years at Marcus & Millichap
earning numerous awards, he joined a regional firm, Orion,
where he became senior vice president. Almost exactly two years
ago, Shnitzer and his two partners started ABI Multifamily. As
senior managing partner at ABI Multifamily, he is one of its three
corporation owners. As of August 2015, Shnitzer has transacted
more than $1 billion in multifamily projects, representing 18,071
total apartment units.
BRITTEN SHUFORD, 39
Co-Founder and President
PRG Investment & Management Inc.
Los Angeles
Shuford has a strong belief that our business
is a vital cog in creating jobs and improving
communities, and that strong, enduring relationships are built by breaking bread, not by
email and social media. Shuford was the
youngest member admitted to SIOR’s Los Angeles Chapter at age
26. He began co-leading the Pacifica Capital Group in 2005 at age
30 and became acting managing partner of Colony Palms Hotel,
a Conde Nast luxury boutique hotel in Palm Springs, CA, when
he was 32. In 2006, he co-founded Wayans-Pacifica Urban
Investment Partnership with Keenen Ivory Wayans and went on
to co-found Brennan Investment Group in 2009 at age 33. He is
currently the co-founder and president of PRG Investment and
Management along with PRG Hospitality. Shuford is responsible
for a $180-million real estate portfolio, which includes hotels,
industrial, business parks and retail. He is also on the board of
directors for the Steven Ohren Foundation.
DANIEL STANCO, 37
Partner
Ropes & Gray LLP
New York City
Named a partner in 2014, Stanco advises firms
such as Blackstone, Commonwealth REIT,
PIMCO and TPG. He focuses on private equity
and capital markets transactions, joint ventures, investments and finance for all asset
classes throughout the US and Europe. In 2012, Stanco was lead
pro bono counsel to PAVE Academy Charter School in Brooklyn
assisting in its $40-million elementary school facility. Prior to the
school’s completion, PAVE was co-located at P.S. 15 when Hurricane
Sandy hit, resulting in the closure of P.S. 15 and the displacement
of the students. Stanco worked with the NYC Housing Authority to
secure a lease for a temporary facility in less than 24 hours so the
students could continue attending school during a time when
large portions of the city were without power. Stanco also serves as
counsel and member of FEED’s board of directors, which provides
more than 85 million meals to children around the world.
HAL STEIN, 40
EVP and Managing Director
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank
New York City
Stein quickly recognized that a strong work
ethic and an outgoing personality coupled
with a “thick skin” were many of the traits he
possessed that would ultimately lead to success. He was right. Since Stein was tasked with
launching Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s Lower Manhattan
office at the age of 33, NGKF has completed nearly a third of all
deals larger than 40,000 square feet in the area. Stein has played
a significant role in reshaping Downtown and revitalizing its reputation as a vibrant, global tenant destination. As executive vice
president and managing director of NGKF, Stein has represented
a wide range of tenants and owners including Brookfield Office
Properties, Goldman Sachs and Northwood. One of Stein’s most
notable tenant representation transactions includes representing
Morgan Stanley in the lease of 1. 1 million square feet at One New
York Plaza, for which he and his team received the REBNY
Ingenious Deal of the Year recognition in 2012.
RYAN STOLLER, 34
Principal
Venture One Real Estate
Rosemont, IL
Stoller says his generation is uniquely positioned to navigate the industry through the
next downturn, and his accomplishments
back up that statement. In the past eight
years, he helped build KTR Capital Partners,
Stoller initially joined KTR as an analyst in 2007 and, by age 29,
he was promoted to senior vice president with responsibility for
a series of funds totaling $2.5 billion of equity. Stoller was an
integral principal of the KTR funds that led to the sale of KTR
to Prologis for $5.9 billion this past spring. With that sale, he
begins a new venture this fall. He joins Venture One Real Estate
as a principal, identifying and executing opportunities in the
Chicago region and in new markets with its current $150-mil-
lion investment fund.
