Yale Alumni Real Estate Association Conference 2024

Jordan Pantzer, Co-General Partner, The Panco Strategic Real Estate Funds and Co-CEO, Pantzer Properties

Jordan Pantzer is Co-General Partner of The Panco Strategic Real Estate Funds and Co-CEO of Pantzer Properties. Jordan oversees the firm’s investment, asset management and fundraising efforts. Jordan has nearly 30 years of real estate experience, having previously worked in the real estate investment banking, lending and investment groups of Starwood Capital Group, Lazard, Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch. Jordan is an active member of numerous charitable organizations, and he currently serves on the Duke University Trinity College Board of Visitors, the Board of Trustees of Temple Emanu El and the New York Weill Cornell Council at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is a former member of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University Advisory Board. Jordan received his BA in Political Science and Certificate in Markets and Management from Duke University.

Paula Campbell Roberts, Managing Director, Chief Investment Strategist for Global Wealth, KKR

Paula Campbell Roberts (New York) joined KKR in 2017 and is the Chief Investment Strategist for the firm’s Global Wealth business and a Managing Director on the Global Macro, Balance Sheet and Risk (GBR) team. As Chief Investment Strategist, Ms. Roberts advises the firm's wealth management partners on macroeconomics and asset allocation, with a focus on the role that private assets, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and credit, can play in individual investor portfolios. As a Managing Director on the GBR team, Ms. Roberts also works with KKR’s investment teams on the identification and evaluation of macro considerations as it relates to both deployment and monetization opportunities. Ms. Roberts is a member of the firm’s Global Wealth Executive Committee, Global Macro, Risk and Balance Sheet (GBR) Senior Leadership team. Prior to joining KKR, Ms. Roberts was an economist at Morgan Stanley, providing views on the economy and the consumer sector to asset management clients, using big data to predict inflections in key sectors of the economy, and advising Fortune 500 CEOs on their consumer strategy. Before Morgan Stanley, Ms. Roberts was a management consultant leading case teams and advising Fortune 500 companies at Bain & Co. Ms. Roberts is one of fifteen members of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Economic Advisory Panel and a member of the Economic Club of New York. Ms. Roberts earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Yale University. She is currently a Lincoln Center Leadership Fellow, and she also serves on the boards of the New York City Ballet and the American Friends of Jamaica.

Cherie Santos-Wuest is the Managing Partner at Celadon Venture Advisors, LLC, a Real Estate Advisory Service that provides investment strategy and real estate portfolio marketing consultation. Prior to this she served as the Principal Investment Officer at the CT State Pension funds, where she managed $2.5 billion in real estate investments in private equity funds, and integrated ESG policies into underwriting for portfolio investments. Previously, she served as Director of Global Social and Community Investments at TIAA-CREF, where she managed a $600 million SRI real estate and a $50M venture capital portfolio. In other positions at TIAA-CREF, Ms. Santos-Wuest served as a Director in TIAA’s Global Private Markets group, responsible for originating over $1.2 billion in large loan investments in various territories across the United States and Canada. A full member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), she was responsible for helping to launch ULI’s Responsible Property Investment Product Council, which she chaired between 2010 and 2012.

Ms. Santos-Wuest currently serves as a Vice Chair and Board Trustee for the NHP Foundation, a not-for-profit affordable housing development firm, with offices in NYC and Wash., D.C.; and has served on the Board of Directors for CREW DC, a women’s association that promotes women in the commercial real estate industry. Ms. Santos-Wuest was the recipient of the 2018 Vanguard Leader Award from the Council of Urban Real Estate. (CURE), for her work in fostering diversity and social equity in the Real Estate industry. Cherie holds a BS in Architecture from the University of Virginia, an MS in Architecture from Yale University, and an MS in Real Estate Development from MIT.

Dana Robbins Schneider, Senior Vice President, Director of Energy, Sustainability and ESG, Empire State Realty Trust

Dana Robbins Schneider is responsible to define, lead, and execute a comprehensive program for all company and property level energy and sustainability initiatives, industry leading best practices, and ESG and wellness programs, disclosure, and reporting. Dana leads the work behind ESRT’s globally recognized Net Zero work, for ESB by 2030 and the portfolio by 2035, focused on analyzing and implementing actionable measures which drive performance and payback at the whole building, systems and tenant level including proactive planning for LL97. We focus on measurable actionable impacts in emissions, energy, water, waste, and indoor environmental quality to drive ROI and healthy buildings.

Prior to joining ESRT, Dana led JLL’s Energy and Sustainability Projects team for the Americas, working on over 250 million square feet of impact projects over 18 years. Before this, Dana was a mechanical engineer at WSP.

Dana graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia in 1999 and serves on the Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Board, Real Estate Roundtable Sustainable Policy Advisory Committee, Urban Green Board of Directors, ULI Think Tank Committee, REBNY Sustainability Committee, and is a LEED Fellow since 2016.  Dana served on the LL97 Technical Pathways for Commercial Buildings and Economic Working Group and maximum terms on the USGBC LEED Steering Committee and USGBC Technical Advisory Group for IEQ.

Julie Skolnicki, Senior Managing Director of University Partnerships, Greystar

Julie Skolnicki is a Senior Managing Director of University Partnerships for Greystar, leading on-campus development, acquisition, and long-term management partnerships. Julie serves as Student Housing Development product lead and on Greystar’s Student Housing Investment Review Committee and Culture, Inclusion and Engagement Advisory Council. During her 25-year career, she has executed over $10B in mixed-use university projects and currently oversees a $2B development and construction pipeline.

Julie joined Greystar in 2018 through the company’s acquisition of student housing leader EdR, where she served as Senior Vice President of University Partnerships. Julie is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) University Development and Innovation Council, the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) Student Housing Executive Committee and is actively involved with public private partnership initiatives for the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Julie is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, an Ohio‐registered architect, a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) accredited professional, and a registered Educational Facility Planner. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati.

Christine Wendell, Co-founder and CEO, Pronto Housing

Christine Wendell is the co-founder and CEO of Pronto Housing, as well as a Principal at Dure Investment Group. Pronto streamlines resident income certification for affordable housing so individuals find homes faster, while reducing costs for property teams. Wendell began her career in real estate as a financial analyst at Wells Fargo Bank. Wendell then went on to hold notable positions at RXR Realty and Megalith Capital Management. Throughout her time in multi-family development and asset management, Wendell experienced first-hand the severely cumbersome and opaque affordable housing processes. Wendell set out to create Pronto Housing, innovating the historically manual process to enable tech-driven leasing and compliance that is efficient, inclusive, and intuitive. She also invests in affordable housing properties through DIG.

Wendell holds a BA in Economics and English from Kenyon College, and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Cole Weston, Principal, Yale Investments Office

Cole joined the Yale Investments Office in August 2023 and focuses on the Endowment’s real estate portfolio. He graduated from Yale College in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 2020, where he graduated with high distinction as a Baker Scholar. Before joining YIO, Cole worked in real estate investing across capital structures and various real estate sectors at Morgan Stanley and Dune Real Estate Partners. Most recently, he worked at KKR where he was a Principal on the real estate equity team.