WUREC Speaker Event: Mary Ann Tighe (CEO of CBRE's New York Tri-State Region)

The Wall Street Journal has written, “(There is) an exceedingly small club of women who have managed to move to the top of the brokerage business. That club’s most prominent member is Mary Ann Tighe.”

Mary Ann has been CEO of CBRE’s New York Tri-State Region since 2002, a region of 4,400 employees. Under her leadership, CBRE has become New York’s preeminent firm, outdistancing all competitors in market share, revenue and margins.

Mary Ann is a ten-time winner of the Real Estate Board of New York’s Deal of the Year Award for ingenious brokerage, a record number of wins since the award was created in 1944. She received the Louis Smadbeck Memorial Broker Recognition Award, REBNY’s highest award in brokerage, REBNY’s Bernard H. Mendik Lifetime Achievement Award, and REBNY’s Harry B. Helmsley Distinguished New Yorker Award. Mary Ann was also honored by the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate with its Urban Leadership Award, the first woman to receive this award. Most significantly, Mary Ann has enjoyed long-term relationships with a number of public and private companies and non-profit organizations, shaping and implementing their real estate strategies for large and small projects.

For a three-year term starting in January 2010, Mary Ann served as Chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York, the first woman to hold this position in REBNY’s then 114-year history, and the first broker in 30 years.

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