About

Cheryl Cohen Effron is a real estate developer known for her redevelopment of underutilized buildings including the Falchi Building and The Factory in Long Island City, and Chelsea Market in Manhattan. She is currently a senior advisor to Tishman Speyer Properties. Cheryl has served as Mayoral appointee to the New York City Planning Commission and is a trustee of International Rescue Committee, Friends of the High Line, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Markle Foundation, and she is the treasurer of the Brookings Institution. Cheryl has been Partnered in Greater NY’s Class of 2018 with Alan van Capelle, President and CEO at the Educational Alliance, and in Greater NY’s Class of 2023 with Kenneth Adams, President of LaGuardia Community College.

Jamie Rubin is Chair of the NYCHA Board of Directors and Chief Investment Officer at Aligned Climate Capital. He was previously CEO of Meridiam NA, investing in and developing transformative infrastructure projects, including LaGuardia Airport Terminal B, the Miami Beach monorail, and the D.C. Metro Purple Line extension. He served for five years as a top official in New York State government and served in the federal government as the director of President Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Recovery and Rebuilding Task Force. Jamie started his career in the private sector at BC Partners and One Equity Partners. He has been partnered four times in Greater NY – in the inaugural class with Ronda Kotelchuck, CEO at Primary Care Development Corporation, in the Class of 2014 with JoAnne Page, CEO and President of Fortune Society, in the Class of 2018 with Jill Eisenhard, Executive Director of the Red Hook Initiative, and in the Class of 2022 with Wayne Ho, President and CEO at the Chinese-American Planning Council.

Gregg Bishop is the Executive Director of the Social Justice Fund at the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation and has worked across New York City’s government, nonprofit and private sectors. In his current position, Gregg leads the Social Justice Fund’s work on racial justice and economic mobility for BIPOC populations in Brooklyn. He has over 13 years of government experience and served as the Commissioner of the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) in the years 2015-2020. His nonprofit leadership experience includes a role as interim Executive Director at Coro New York, and the Senior Manager of Workforce Development at NPower.

Shaun Donovan is the CEO and President of Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit devoted to addressing America’s affordable housing shortage. He served as the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2014, and as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2014 to 2017. He previously held roles as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing at HUD and as acting Commissioner for the Federal Housing Administration.

Sudeep Doshi is a Partner at McKinsey & Company and is a leader in McKinsey’s Asset Management, Private Equity and Real Estate practices. Sudeep is focused on building digital, data, and analytics capabilities for leading institutions across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Sudeep was a Greater NY Partner in the Class of 2023, working with Eric Rosenbaum, CEO of Project Renewal, and joined Project Renewal’s Board upon completing his Greater NY Partnership.

Rebecca Liu-Doyle is a Managing Partner at Insight Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm based in New York City. Rebecca’s focus includes high-growth software, fintech, and consumer internet. She started her career as a management consultant in McKinsey & Company’s New York office. Rebecca is Partnered in Greater NY’s Class of 2025 with Jody Rudin, CEO at the Institute for Community Living.

Adam Durrett was most recently a partner at Hellman & Friedman, where he led investments in the financial services sector and helped build their New York office. Prior to Hellman & Friedman, Adam was an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley. He serves on the board of Edelman Financial Engines, a Hellman & Friedman portfolio company, and he serves as a trustee of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Final Five Voting NYC. Adam was a Greater NY Partner in the Class of 2024, working with Courtney Bryan, Executive Director of the Center for Justice Innovation.

Tony Kim is Co-President of Investment Banking at Centerview Partners, a leading independent investment bank, and was part of the firm’s founding team. He has spent his 20+ year career focused on strategic advice and M&A across a broad range of sectors and has executed over $600 billion in transactions. Tony has been Partnered in Greater NY’s Class of 2020 with Rich Berlin, Co-CEO of DREAM, and in Greater NY’s Class of 2024 with Thelma Golden, the Director and Chief Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem. He has championed Greater NY’s Analyst Corps at Centerview since 2018 and launched the bank’s Greater NY Female Leadership Initiative.

Lori Lesser is a Partner in the Litigation Department at Simpson Thacher and is head of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice and co-chair of the Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice. She advises on all aspects of intellectual property, technology, and privacy law and she counsels clients in a variety of fields, including media and entertainment, software, technology and financial information. She is on the Board of the Partnership Fund of the Partnership for New York City and was a David Rockefeller Fellow. Lori was Partnered in Greater NY’s Class of 2014 with Jennifer Mitchell, Executive Director of the HOPE Program.

Lili Lynton is the co-founder and operating partner of The Dinex Group, which manages 17 Daniel Boulud branded restaurants. She previously co-founded Telebank, an Internet bank sold to E*TRADE in 1999. Lili serves on the boards of The Vera Institute of Justice, East Harlem Tutorial Program, The National Bail Project and is a member of the Advisory Council of The Hamilton Project, a division of The Brookings Institution. Lili has been Partnered three times in Greater NY – in the Class of 2014 with Marjorie Hill, CEO at GMHC, the Class of 2018 with Nicholas Turner, President at VERA Institute of Justice, and the Class of 2021 with Brett Peiser, CEO at Uncommon Schools.

Michael Ryan is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb where his practice focuses on financial and corporate matters, ranging from mergers and acquisitions to securities offerings. He has extensive experience counseling corporate executives and corporate boards. Michael was a New York City Urban Fellow under Mayor John F. Lindsay and is a founding director of the Public Interest Law Foundation at NYU, a Trustee of the Citizen’s Budget Commission, and has served on the Boards of Wildcat Service Corporation, Breaking Ground and The Osborne Association. He has been partnered five times in Greater NY – in the Class of 2014 with Liz Gaynes, President and CEO of the Osborn Association, in the Class of 2019 with Angela Diaz, Director of the Mount Sinai Center for Adolescent Health, the Class of 2022 with Michelle Yanche, Executive Director of Good Shepherd Services, and with Aubrey Fox, CEO of New York City Criminal Justice Agency, and in the Class of 2025 with Liz Roberts, CEO of Safe Horizon.

Carl Weisbrod is a Senior Advisor at HR&A Advisors. He has guided public agencies and transformative development initiatives across five decades and in roles spanning the corporate, government and nonprofit sectors, including, Chairman of the New York City Planning Commission, Director of the New York City Department of City Planning, Chairman of the New York State Health Foundation, Founding President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Trustee of the Ford Foundation and the Urban Land Institute, President of the NYS 42nd Street Development Project, Board Member of the MTA, as well as founding President of the Downtown Alliance. Carl was on the Board of Advisors of Greater NY when it was a program of the Bloomberg Mayor’s Office/Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City.