ABOUT

Our Board

Pierre Debbas

Board Member

Pierre E. Debbas is a partner and founding member of the Romer Debbas firm. Pierre has extensive experience in the areas of real estate and general business law. His practice focuses on the purchase and sale of commercial and residential real estate in New York City, commercial leasing, real estate related financing matters, representation of cooperative and condominium boards, foreign investors and small businesses. Over the course of his career, Pierre has been involved in thousands of real estate transactions with an aggregate value of over a billion dollars.

Pierre is frequently quoted in a variety of national and regional media including the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal and is a frequent commentator on Bloomberg TV. He is regularly a featured lecturer at several of the city’s largest real estate brokerage firms. In addition, Pierre is certified by the New York Department of State to teach continuing education courses on the topics of residential and commercial real estate.

In 2014, at age 34, Pierre was named in Super Lawyers which lists the top 5% of all lawyers in their respective practice areas as nominated by their peers and he has continued to be selected for this honor every year since. Prior to that, in 2013 Pierre was named in the Rising Stars section of Super Lawyers. Rising Stars lists the top 2.5% of lawyers under the age of 40 in their practice area. In addition, Pierre has been named in New York Magazine’s Leaders in the Law as one of the top attorneys in NYC.

Heather Ibrahim-Leathers

Heather founded Global Fund for Widows following the passing of her grandmother in 2009. Since then, the Global Fund for Widows has raised over $1,000,000 for economic empowerment programs in Egypt, India, Tanzania, Nigeria, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic.

Jennifer Wu

Jennifer joined the Global Fund for Widows in 2012 as a board member and is responsible for the Fund’s social media strategy. With over 20 years of work experience in financial services and strategic consulting, she has held numerous positions at global institutions across the United States, Europe and Asia.

Sandy Debbas

Sandy Debbas serves as Underwriting Counsel for TitleVest where she focusses primarily on New York Commercial transactions. She is also responsible for overseeing the 1031 Exchange division at TitleVest.

Farhang Mehregani

Mr Mehregani is a Founding Partner of Silver Ridge Asset Management, responsible for Risk, Marketing, Silver Mine development, Recruiting and Business Development.

Elena Yoon

Elena is the Head of Global Markets at Haitong International Securities’ in New York, overseeing the US institutional equities and equity capital market efforts for the firm.

Nancy Youssef

Ms. Nancy Youssef currently serves as Chief Business Development Officer for Soles 4 Souls, a not for profit social enterprise based in Nashville, TN focused on sustainably repurposing apparel and footwear.

Olena Malynska

Olena Malynska made a stellar career in financial institutions in Ukraine. Olena has more than 20 years of experience in top executive positions in Ukrainian and international banks operating in Ukraine. Over the last twelve years, Olena has been CEO and has led as Chair of Management Board of large and medium Ukrainian banks. As an early career, Olena had been an auditor in Andersen offices in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Los Angeles, US offices.

Angela Stulley

Angela was an original employee and Head of Sales at quant trading platform Archipelago/ Arca, which became the first US electronic stock exchange. Arca IPO’d, and then was acquired by the NYSE, where Angela was an SVP and Head of Global Sales, as well as CEO of Arca Europe.

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