50 | DECEMBER 11, 2012 | THE COMMERCIAL OBSERVER
Judith WendellSacred Currents
PresidentYear joined: 1996
Client list spans corporations, retailers, spas, restaurants and
residential homeowners.
Debra WollensCassidy TurleyVice President
Year joined: 2004Clients include YMCA, New York
Restoration Project and New York School Construction Authority.
Karen WiedenmannCushman & Wakefield
Executive Director, Capital Markets
Year joined: 2002Executive director of capital mar-
kets for Cushman & Wakefield.
Mei WongMassey Knakal Realty Services
AssociateYear joined: 2011
Performs translation work in both Cantonese and Mandarin and research in Chinatown and
the Lower East Side.
Mavis WigginsTPG Architecture
Studio Design DirectorYear joined: 2010
Recipient of the IIDA Lester Dundes Award.
Janet WoodsJones Lang LaSalle
Executive Vice PresidentYear joined: 2001
Clients include Institute for Community Living, the American
Red Cross and the Simons Foundation.
Marcia YawitzEastern Consolidated
Senior DirectorYear joined: 2000
Has completed several billion dollars in sales.
Amira YunisCBRE
Executive Vice President in CBRE’s Retail Services Group
Year joined: 2011Represented NYU in bringing
Trader Joe’s to its first New York location on 14th Street.
Barbara WinterJones Lang LaSalle
Executive Vice PresidentYear joined: 1985
Clients include Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Insight Venture
Partners and Continuum Health Partners.
Brittany WunschJones Lang LaSalle
AssociateYear joined: 2011
Clients include Uber Technologies, Perry Ellis and
Mackenzie Childs.
Kamani YanezQuest Workspaces
Regional Vice PresidentYear joined: 2008
Known as a mover and shaker in various business communities.
Susi YuForest City Ratner Companies
Senior Vice President, Residential Development
Year joined: 2001Working on the development of the first residential building at
Atlantic Yards.
Esther ZarMurray Hill Properties
Managing DirectorYear joined: 2009
Has completed over 1 million square feet of office and retail leasing and sales transactions.
Ann ZellerEastern Consolidated
Chief Marketing OfficerYear joined: 2006
Has over 20 years of experience as a marketing expert.
Amy ZhenNewmark Grubb Knight Frank
AssociateYear joined: 2010
Has leased over 100,000 square feet of retail space.
Danielle ZimbaroCushman & Wakefield
Senior Director, BrokerageYear joined: 2001
Received the Real Estate Board of New York’s “Most Promising Commercial Salesperson of the
Year” award in 2005.
METHODOLOGY: On Wednesday, November 28, The Commercial Observer sent an email out to more than 100 real estate professionals, seeking names and headshots of female professionals for its first annual Women in Real Estate issue. In an attempt to create as comprehensive a list of female professionals as possible, we asked only that all submis-sions include head shots and several pieces of information, including each person’s title, number of years with their current employer and a few biographical notes. As a result, over the next eight days, we received submissions not only from direct employers, but from peers and col-leagues alike. We also received names from all areas of the real estate industry, including legal practices, accounting firms, architects, the ownership community and, of course, New York City’s vast expanse of commercial brokerage companies. With these prerequisites in mind, the preceding pictorial should not be considered an accurate reflection of a company’s gender equation as much as a snapshot of the city’s commer-cial real estate industry as of December 2012. Indeed, some companies chose to sit out this exercise altogether while others took pains to submit entire rosters of female employees.
Laura Yablon RapaportL&L Holding Company
Vice President; Co-Head of Capital Raising
Year joined: 2010Part of the 425 Park Avenue se-
nior development team.
“There isn’t a person
in our industry I don’t
value and respect” —Lori Shabtai,
executive vice president, Winick Realty Group