EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
TRUSTEES
RESEARCH COMMITTEES
EMERITUS TRUSTEES
PAST CHAIRS OF THE BOARD

Executive Committee

Chair

Marissa Shorenstein

Vice Chairs

Jake Elghanayan, TF Cornerstone
William Floyd, Google, Inc.
Carol Rosenthal, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP

Treasurer

Robert Hoglund, Consolidated Edison Company, Inc.

Secretary

Merryl Tisch

General Counsel

Edward C. Wallace, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Executive Committee Members

Elaine Brennan, Roosevelt & Cross, Incorporated
Marty Burger
Paula Dagen, Wells Fargo
Kent Hiteshew
Shari Hyman, Turner Construction
David A. Javdan, Alvarez & Marsal
Anthony Mannarino, Extell Development Company
Richard Roberts, Red Stone Equity Partners
Sally Rocker, J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC
Alair Townsend

Honorary Chairs

Lawrence Buttenwieser
Kenneth Gibbs, Maimonides Health
Walter Harris
Lawrence Huntington
Eugene Keilin, Keilin & Co. LLC
Richard Levine
James Lipscomb
Edward Skyler, Citi

Trustees

Neil Abramson, Proskauer Rose LLP
Benjamin Appen, Magnitude Capital
Bruce Beal Jr., Related Companies
Stephen Berger, Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC
Kamal Bherwani, GCOM Software, Inc.
Will Blodgett, Tredway
John Breit
Michael Britchkow, Barclays Capital
Meg Brod, Rockefeller Group
Thomas Brodsky, The Brodsky Organization
B. Seth Bryant, Bryant Rabbino LLP
David Buck, Deloitte
Robert Burch, IV, A.W. Jones
John Buretta, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Tonio Burgos, Tonio Burgos & Associates Inc.
Cathy Calhoun, PruTech
Grace Chionuma, Morgan Stanley
Rose Christ, Cozen O'Connor
Spencer Coker, BofA Securities
Emmet Conlon, TD Bank
Edward Cox
Claudia Cusumano, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Inc.
Peter D'Arcy, M&T Bank
Robert Dailey, PNC Capital Markets, LLC
Karen Daly, Kroll Bond Rating Agency - KBRA
Philip DeCicco, National Grid
Eric Dinallo, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
David Dishy, LMXD
Douglas Durst, The Durst Organization
Helena Durst, The Durst Organization
Andrew Ehrlich, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP
Nikki Faison-Miller, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Tali Farhadian Weinstein, Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP; NBC News and MSNBC
​​​Hal Fetner, Fetner Properties
Pepe Finn, Stern Brothers & Co.
Suzanne Finnegan, Build America Mutual
Winston Fisher, Fisher Brothers
Carley Graham Garcia, Amazon
Thomas Giordano, Suffolk
Robert Giuffra, Sullivan & Cromwell
Alicia Glen, MSquared
Robert Goelet, GxG Management, LLC
Jose Gonzalez, Federal Home Loan Bank of New York
Kirk Gravely, Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
John Greed, Mutual of America
Lawrence Gresser, Cohen & Gresser, LLP
Jeff Gural, GFP Real Estate, LLC
Jack Gutt, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Jeffrey Halis, Tyndall Management LLC
Harold Handler
Peter Hein, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Eileen Heitzler, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Caswell Holloway IV
William Hubbard, Center Development Corporation
Karim Hutson, Genesis Companies
Louis J. Jerome, JEMB Realty
Peter Joseph
Camille Joseph-Goldman, Charter Communications
Anil Kapoor, SVAM International Inc.
Suri Kasirer, Kasirer LLC
Elias Kefalidis, KLM Equities, Inc.
Gregory Kelly, STV Group, Inc.
Tom Kennedy, ARUP
Mike Keogh, Bolton-St. Johns
Paula Kirby, Plaxall, Inc.
Margaux Knee, LinkNYC 
Carol Kostik
Robert Krinsky, The Segal Company 
Barry Langer, Vornado Realty Trust
Christopher Larsen, Halmar International LLC
Natasha Lifton, Trinity Church Wall Street
Mayra Linares-Garcia, Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages
Eric Linzer, New York Health Plan Association
Steven Lipin, Gladstone Place Partners
Stephanie Lom, Raymond James
Brian Mahanna, WilmerHale
Amy Miller, New York Life Insurance Company
Jim Millstein, Guggenheim Partners
Kevin Murphy, Hawkins, Delafield & Wood, LLP
Benjamin Naftalis, Latham & Watkins
Jeffrey Nelson, RXR
Michael Nevins, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
James Normile, KattenMuchinRosenman, LLP
Maurice Obeid, McKinsey & Company
Charles John O'Byrne, Related Companies
Edward Piccinich, SL Green Realty Corp.
Laura Porter, Fitch Ratings, Ltd.
Robin Prunty, Standard & Poor's Rating Group
Jason Rachlin, Bank of Montreal
Samuel A. Ramirez, Jr., Samuel A. Ramirez & Co.
Kevin Rampe, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
Lynn Rasic, Gilbane, Inc. 
Juan D. Reyes, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Michael Rishty, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Nicolas Rohatyn, The Rohatyn Group (TRG)
John Rose, The Boston Consulting Group
Muzzy Rosenblatt, Bowery Residents' Committee
Arthur Rosenbloom, Consilium ADR, LLC
Eric Rothman, HR&A Advisors, Inc.
Tom Rousakis, Ernst & Young Infrastructure Advisors, LLC
Ana Rua, Crown Castle
Jamie Rubin
William Rudin, Rudin Management Company
Brian Sanvidge, Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP Accountants and Advisors
Michael Schmidtberger, Sidley Austin LLP
Paul H. Schoeman, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Jessica Schumer, Amazon
Edie Sharp, Accenture
Timothy Sheehan, CBRE
Aaron Shirian, Lions Group
Jon Silvan, Global Strategy Group
Ethan Silverstein, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
Brian Simon, Hollis Public Affairs
Monica Slater Stokes, United Airlines
Deborah Snyder, Accenture
Hilary Spann, Boston Properties
Timothy Tapia, AT&T
William C. Thompson, Jr., Siebert Williams Shank & Co., L.L.C.
Thomas J. Tisch, Four Partners
Michael Tremonte, Sher Tremonte LLP
Pamela Venzke, Ørsted
David Weinraub, Brown & Weinraub, PLLC
Antonio Weiss
Judy Wesalo Temel, Fiera Capital, Inc.
Robert Wessels, The General Contractors Association NY, Inc.
James Whelan, Real Estate Board of New York
Veronica White, Bloomberg LP
Peter Wilcox, PepsiCo, Inc.
Jacquelyn Williams, 99 Solutions, LLC
John Williams, Bechtel Group
Mark Willis, New York University
Richard Windram, Verizon Communications, Inc.
Elisabeth Wynn, Greater New York Hospital Association
Aaron Yowell, Nixon Peabody LLP
Richard Zabel, Elliott Management Corporation
Michael A. Zarcone, MetLife

Research Committees

Committees of Trustees oversee the Commission’s research and take policy positions based on that research. Click here to see a list of current CBC research committees. 

Emeritus Trustees

Herman Charbonneau, Roosevelt & Cross, Incorporated
Bud Gibbs, Gibbs & Associates, PC
Jerome Hyman*
William Josephson, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, LLP
Peter Kornman
Jeffrey Lynford, Wellsford Strategic Partners LLC
Frances Milberg
Ira Millstein, Esq.*
Steven Polan*
Hector Prud’homme*
Felix Rohatyn*
Edward Sadowsky*
David Schiff
Dominick Servedio, STV Group, Inc.
Richard L. Sigal
Larry Silverstein, Silverstein Properties, Inc.
W. James Tozer, Jr., Vectra Management Group
Ronald G. Weiner, Perelson Weiner LLP

Past Chairs of the Board

Peter Grimm, 1932-1935*
William Church Osborn, 1935-1937*
Colonel Richard C. Patterson Jr., 1937-1939*
Major General Dennis E. Nolan, 1940-1950*
Robert W. Dowling, 1968-1972*
William S. Renchard, 1972-1977*
Rexford E. Tompkins, 1977-1979*
Lawrence S. Huntington, 1980-1984
Frank P. Smeal, 1985-1988*
Richard A. Levine, 1989-1990
Richard Ravitch, 1991-1994*
Lawrence B. Buttenwieser, 1995-1998
Eugene J. Keilin, 1999-2002
H. Dale Hemmerdinger, 2003-2006*
James L. Lipscomb, 2007-2010
Kenneth D. Gibbs, 2011-2014
Edward Skyler, 2015-2018
Walter Harris, 2019-2022

* deceased