Speaker
Michael Ashner
Chairman & CEO
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Winthrop Capital Partners
Mr. Ashner has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Winthrop Capital Partners, LP., avertically integrated property management firm, since 1996. Mr. Ashner has acquired over $12 billion of real estate, including 85,000 apartment units, 50 million square feet of office, retail, and industrial assets and more than 10,000 hotel rooms. Winthrop Capital Partners hasmanaged more than 500 limited partnerships, of which in excess of 50 were publicly reporting with over 100,000 investors, as well as six publicly traded NYSE REITS. Mr. Ashner served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Winthrop Realty Trust, a NYSE-listed real estate investment trust, from 2004 to 2016. Prior to its planned liquidation in 2016 Winthrop Realty Trust owned a portfolio of approximately $2.4 billion of real estate and real estate related assets.
Mr. Ashner served as Director and Chief Executive Officer of Shelbourne Properties a group of
three publically traded real estate investment trusts, from 2002 until their liquidation in 2004. In
addition, he was the Chairman and CEO of Newkirk Realty Trust, a NYSE-listed real estate investment trust, from its formation through its merger with Lexington Realty Trust in January 2007. Thereafter, he served as Executive Chairman of Lexington Realty Trust following its merger withNewkirk Realty Trust from 2007through 2008. Prior to 1996, M.r Ashner wasPresident and Chief Executive Officer of National Property Investors.
Mr. Ashner currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the NorthWell Health System, and the Advisory Board of the Cornell University Program in Real Estate. Mr. Asher is a trustee and co- founder of Beit Ruth a therapeutic boarding school for 60 "at risk" young women in Israel.
Mr. Ashner holds an AB from Cornell University and a JD from the Universityo fMiami. He resides in Cove Neck, New York.
Speaker
Shaya Lesches
Director
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YJP Young Jewish Professionals
Shaya Lesches is Co-founder and Director of Young Jewish Professionals (YJP), a nonprofit dedicated to creating and promoting targeted business and educational opportunities that accelerate the career success of New York City’s Jewish business community. The organization, founded in 2008, has fostered unparalleled peer-to-peer learning and professional leadership platforms across the NYC business scene. YJP has succeeded in creating a world-class community connecting the nation’s top business leaders with aspiring young professionals through YJP’s innovative network.
An entrepreneur at heart, Shaya also founded Australian Kosher Winery in his native Australia. In 2018, Shaya established the YJP Center for Leadership, the world’s first Jewish Business Leadership Center located in the heart of Manhattan’s Union Square.
Shaya is also a founding member of the Rambam Foundation, a not-for-profit organization in connecting the world’s top Jewish business leaders, physicians and investors to accelerate innovation in healthcare delivery through cross functional collaborations.
Rabbi Lesches currently serves as a Trustee of the West Side Jewish Center in Manhattan. He currently resides in Manhattan with his wife and six children.
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