Gayle Farris

Biografía: Gayle Farris CEO GB Farris Strategies, Inc. New York, NY Gayle Farris is the 25-year former CEO of Forest City Enterprises Science and Technology Group. She created a new paradigm-setting, innovation campus asset-class, partnering with MIT, Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania and other major institutions. These projects established the national standard for state-of-the-art buildings supporting entrepreneurial culture and intensive technology and biotech/pharma uses anchoring revitalized 24/7 urban neighborhoods. She developed and operated two million SF mixed-use Technology/Medical Research Parks valued at more than $2 billion in current operation with another 8 million SF in development rights. These public-private partnerships generated significant economic development, job creation, technology commercialization, and 1,000+ mixed-income housing units. Ms. Farris is currently based in NYC engaged in applying innovation campus concepts to vibrant urban place-making around today’s engineering and information technologies and University collaborations with new ventures and established companies. Given the importance of seamless live-work-play environments, she is also partnering on a novel residential brand for active urban dwellers combining lifestyle residential communities, green design, high-tech-high-touch, and comprehensive wellness facilities and programs. These services can also be applied in office and hotel developments. Ms. Farris is a frequent advisor and speaker on urban place-making and an MIT School of Architecture & Planning Research Affiliate for their New Century City world-wide program. She serves on Harvard Graduate School of Design, Real Estate Initiative Alumnae Advisory Boards. She is a member of the Urban Land Institute, and University Anchor Institutions Council; WX, NY Women Real Estate Executives Group; and is Past President and Chairman of the National Association of Industrial and Offi