Melissa Pianko

Biografía: Melissa Epstein Pianko 917-533-7054 • [email protected] Experience Blackstone, New York, NY 2016 – 2018 Real Estate Managing Director • Serve as senior asset manager on all US multifamily investments including national portfolio known as LivCor and New York City assets including Stuyvesant Town – Peter Cooper Village; total value more than $11bb • Manage multifamily disposition assessment and process • Serve on board of D Carnegie, listed Swedish multifamily owner Gotham Organization, Inc., New York, NY 2005 - 2016 Real Estate Development Executive Vice President • Managed development business for 100 year-old, privately owned real estate company focusing primarily on NYC residential development; promoted from Assistant VP, to VP to Executive VP; serve on firm’s executive committee • Project Executive on multiple development transactions; oversee all aspects of each project including acquisitions, government entitlements, capital sourcing & deal structure, design, marketing, leasing and/or sales • Hired and supervise team of internal and external professionals for a development and pipeline in excess of $2 billion • Selected completed transactions: • The Ashland - $270 million, 586 rental units including low, middle and market rate apartments in 52-story tower adjacent to Brooklyn Academy of Music (anticipated delivery summer 2016) • Gotham West - $520 million, 1238 rental units including low, middle and market rate apartments in four buildings, elaborate entitlement process leading to largest recent production of affordable housing south of 96th St; achieved market rents 20% above pro-forma and refinanced out 80% of initial investment upon stabilization (completed 2013) • The Corner at 200 West - $230 million, 196 rental units above 50,000 SF retail which achieved highest rents in Upper West Side submarket (completed 2010) Brownfields Capital, New York, NY 2004 - 2005 Start-Up Firm Investing in Environmentally Contaminated Real Estate Senior Director • Financed remediation and redevelopment of brownfield sites through patented investment vehicle Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York, NY 1998 - 2002 Real Estate Investment Banking Department (2000 - 2002) Associate Municipal Finance Department (1998 - 2000) Analyst Education Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA MBA 2004 Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, NY BA 1998 Majored in Urban Studies with Economics Concentration Thesis: How dismantling the Third Avenue Elevated train affected real estate values in the South Bronx Other • Crain’s NY 40 Under 40 Class of 2012, Top Woman in New York Commercial Real Estate “Power Woman” by BizNow in 2014,Real Estate Forum’s 40 Under 40 in 2011, a “Top Woman In Real Estate” by NY Residential Magazine in 2009, and Real Estate Weekly “Residential Real Estate Rising Star” in 2007 • Serve on Board of Advisors to NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, the Board of Directors for JCC of Manhattan, the Board of the 42nd Street Development Corporation; Selected as Greater New York mentor