RECM Conference 2025

March 6
8:00 AM – 2:00 PM

583 Park Avenue
At E 63rd Street and Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065

Our annual Real Estate Capital Markets (RECM) conference is a “must attend” event for industry leaders in public REIT and private real estate markets.

Reserve your spot today for the 18th Annual Real Estate Capital Markets (RECM) Conference – the premier, invitation-only event for the real estate industry!

We’re bringing together an extraordinary lineup of distinguished speakers from across real estate and investment sectors to explore cutting-edge trends and industry-defining insights.

Have questions? Don’t hesitate to reach out.

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Visit the RECM 2025 minisite to learn more about speakers, session topics, and more.

Agenda

7:45 AM – 8:30 AM – Registration & Networking Breakfast

8:35 AM – 9:20 AM – Featured Presentation
Speaker to be announced

9:20 AM – 10:05 AM – Keynote Speaker
Featuring: Marc Holliday, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (SL Green Realty Corp.)

10:45 AM – 11:45 AM – Global Capital Flows Panel
Moderated by: Jarrett Vitulli, Senior Managing Director (Evercore)

Featuring:
Julia Butler, Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer (KKR Real Estate Select Trust Inc.)
Jennifer Dumas Hall, Managing Director (Rockpoint)
Tim Mackey, Chief Investment Officer (LoanCore Capital)

11:45 AM – 12:20 PM – Burst: AI and Tenant Trends – Redefining Demand in Real Estate
Featuring: John Fitzpatrick, Senior Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer of Alternative Asset Management Technology (Blackstone)

12:20 PM – 12:50 PM – Burst: Uninsurable – The Growing Impact of Climate Change on Real Estate Coverage
Featuring: Pari Sastry, Assistant Professor of Business (Columbia Business School)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – Networking Lunch

RECM Alumni

Kenneth F. Bernstein
President and Chief Executive Officer, Acadia Realty Trust

Erskine B. Bowles
Former Co-Chair, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (2010); President Emeritus, University of North Carolina; Former White House Chief of Staff

Margaret Brennan
Moderator of CBS News’ Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan & CBS News’ Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent

Annemarie DiCola
CEO, Trepp LLC

Tom Flexner
Vice Chairman of ICG and Global Head of Real Estate, Citigroup

Austan Goolsbee
Former Chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and Chief Economist for Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board

Jonathan D. Gray
Global Head of Real Estate, Blackstone

Andrew J. Jonas
Co-Head, Real Estate Department, Goldman Sachs

Sonny Kalsi
Chief Executive Officer, BentallGreenOak

Roy H. March
Chief Executive Officer, Eastdil Secured

Joseph D. Margolis
Chief Executive Officer, Extra Space Storage Inc.

Rick Mishkin
Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions Columbia University, Graduate School of Business

Dr. Carmen Reinhart
Co-Author, This Time is Different, Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System, Harvard Kennedy School

Dr. Alice Rivlin
Former Vice Chair, Federal Reserve Board and Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Christina Romer
Former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama (2009-2010) and Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Stephen M. Ross
Chairman and Founder, Related Companies

Stephen A. Schwarzman
Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Blackstone

Robert Shiller
Professor of Economics, Yale University, Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management

Martin E. "Hap" Stein, Jr.
CEO and Chairman, Regency Centers

Owen D. Thomas
Chief Executive Officer, Boston Properties

Mark M. Zandi
Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics

Zach Aarons
MetaProp

Dan Alpert
Westwood Capital

Matt Anderson
Carlyle Group

Russell Appel
The Praedium Group

Joseph Azrack
Apollo Global Management

Jeffrey Barclay
ING Clarion Partners

Trish Barrigan
Benson Elliot Capital Management

Steven Baum
Five Mile Capital Partners LLC

Dr. Robin Bell
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

Nicholas Bienstock
Savanna

Ted Bigman
Morgan Stanley Investment Management

Michael Bilerman
Citi Research

Jackie Brady
PGIM Real Estate

Gunnar Branson
NAREIM

Keith Breslauer
Patron Capital Advisers LLP

Cia Buckley-Marakovits
Dune Real Estate Partners

Steven Buller
Fidelity Investments

Dr. Sam Chandan
Chandan Economics

Anar Chudgar
Artemis Real Estate Partners

Henry Cisneros
CityView

Ric Clark
Brookfield Properties Corporation

Ann Cole
JP Morgan Investment Management

Ivo de Wit
Global Alpha Fund

Jeffrey DeBoer
The Real Estate Roundtable

Bryan Donohoe
Ares US Real Estate

Camille Douglas
LeFrak Organization

Joanne Douvas
Clerestory Capital Partners

Mary Ellen Egbert
JP Morgan Chase

Robert Entin
Vornado Realty Trust

Melissa Farrell
Prudential Mortgage Capital Company

Adam Gallistel
GIC Real Estate

MaryAnne Gilmartin
Forest City Ratner Companies

Saul Goldstein
ActivumSG Capital Management

Pat Goldstein
Emigrant Realty Finance

Miriam Gottfried
The Wall Street Journal

Alok Guar
LaSalle Investment Management

Marc Halle
Prudential Real Estate Investors

Brian Harris
Ladder Capital

John Helm
Real Estate Technology Ventures

David Hodes
Hodes Weill & Associates

Gentry Ashmore Hoit
Finback Real Estate & GAH Real Estate

Jeffrey Horowitz
BofA Securities

Mark Howard-Johnson
BlackRock

Merritt Hummer
Bain Capital Ventures

John Kessler
Empire State Realty Trust

John Klopp
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing

Ronald Kravit
Cerberus Capital Management

Dr. Quincy Krosby
Prudential Annuities

Leanne Lachman
The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, Columbia Business School

Nancy Lashine
Park Madison Partners

Michael Lavipour
Square Mile Capital

Wilson Leung
Angelo Gordon

Craig Leupold
Green Street Advisors, Inc.

Alan Leventhal
Beacon Capital Partners

Ric Lewis
Tristan Capital Partners

Avi Lewitts
The Scion Group

Youguo Liang
Prudential Real Estate Investors

Doug Linde
Boston Propeties

Jonathan Litt
Land and Buildings

Betty Liu
New York Stock Exchange

Mary Ludgin
Heltman

Matthew Lustig
Lazard Feres & Co.

Frank Marchisello, Jr
Tanger Outlet Centers

Catherine Marcus
PGIM Real Estate

Arthur Margon
Rosen Consulting Group

Christopher J Mayer
Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, Columbia Business School

Andy McCulloch
Green Street Advisors

Lee Menifee
Prudential Real Estate Investors

Guy Metcalfe
Morgan Stanley

Dr. Glenn Mueller
Denver University

Devin Murphy
Morgan Stanley

Michael Nash
The Blackstone Group

Tom Nolan
Spirit Realty Capital

Brian Nottage
JP Morgan Asset Management

Ross Nussbaum
UBS

Leeny Oberg
Global Finance, Marriott International, Inc.

Kevin O’Shea
AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

John Pattar
KKR Asia Limited

Doug Poutasse
Bentall Kennedy

Joel Prakker
Macroeconomic Advisers

Lee Purcell
Greenhill & Co., LLC

Charles Purse
Park Hill Real Estate Group

Albert Rabil
Kayne Anderson Real Estate

Soultana Reigle
PGIM Real Estate

Stephanie Ricca
Hotel News Now

Katy Rice
W.P Carey Inc.

Marc Ricks
Sidewalk Labs

Mitch Roschelle
PwC

Eric Rosengren
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Robin Rossmann
STR

Steve Sakwa
Merrill Lynch

Richard Saltzman
Colony Capital, Inc.

Schecky Schechner
Barclays Capital

David Sherman
Metropolitan Real Estate Equity

Wendy Silverstein
Vornado Realty Trust

Allen Smith
Mohari Hospitality

Hilary Spann
Boston Properties

Adam Spies
Eastdil Secured

Walter Stackler
Shelter Rock Capital

Brian Steinwurtzel
GFP Real Estate

Dr. Betsey Stevenson
University of Michigan

Jim Sullivan
Green Street Advisors

Philip Swagel
(former) U.S Treasury Department

Susan Swanezy
Hodes Weill & Associates

Kent Tarrach
Brookfield Properties

Bill Thompson
Capital Advisory Group, Greenhill & Co., LLC

Thomas Toomey
United Dominion Realty

Raymond Torto
CBRE

David Twardock
Prudential Mortgage Capital Company

Reeka Unnithan
Nuveen

Tim Wang
Clarion Partners

Steven Wechsler
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts

Dr. Shang Jin Wei
Columbia Business School

Steve Weikal
MIT Center for Real Estate

Doug Weill
Hodes Weill & Associates

Seth Weintrob
Morgan Stanley

Jeff Wilson
Kasita

Greg Wright
Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Yulia Yaani
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