Rachel Loeb

Biography: Rachel Loeb is the Chief Investment Officer of Benenson Capital Partners where she co-leads the company’s development, investment, asset management, and construction strategies and teams. She is a creative real estate leader with two decades of real estate and economic development experience and a proven track record in the private and public sectors. Before joining Benenson, Rachel led the NYC Economic Development Corporation as President and CEO. With annual revenues of $250MM, she ran a diverse 60MM+ square foot portfolio and managed a $10B+ capital budget. She launched the city’s post-pandemic economic recovery plan that led to historic investments in life sciences, offshore wind, and created the city’s business development unit which won the Amazon HQ2 competition and negotiated the retention of the JetBlue headquarters. Prior to joining NYCEDC, she was a real estate developer and created or acquired more than $1.5B of mixed-use assets and over 3,000 units of mixed-income housing across the northeast. Throughout her career, she led a broad range of ground up developments, acquisitions, dispositions, and financings for real estate properties and worked for privately held companies as well as at AvalonBay, a public REIT. Her career began in Vietnam working on the country’s first master-planned community. Rachel was named to Crain's New York Business 40 Under 40 and received the Spirit of the City Award from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, among others. She has repeatedly been named one of the top women in NY real estate. She is an active member of ULI and a member of the NY Advisory Board, WX, Chief and the MIT Visiting Committee for the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. She is an active leader of the building committees of both the Berkeley Carroll School and Brooklyn Heights Synagogue and volunteered her expertise during major renovations for their facilities. A native of Kansas City, she graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in H