Conservancy Board

The board of the Conservancy includes a number of prominent New Yorkers who have been active in public redevelopment, historic preservation, private philanthropy and the arts.

Wade F.B. Thompson, Chairman: Chairman and Co-founder, Thor Industries, Inc. (NYSE: THO); Trustee, Municipal Art Society, Mystic Seaport Museum; Founder, The Drive Against Prostate Cancer.
Elihu Rose, PhD., Vice-Chairman: Vice Chairman, Rose Associates; Professor of Military History at New York University and Columbia University; former Chairman of the International Center for Photography (spearheaded development of the new ICP facility at 1133 Sixth Avenue); Trustee, Lincoln Center Theater, WNET, 92nd Street Y; Trustee, Jewish Museum; Chairman of Advisory Committee of Encyclopedia of New York City.
Marjorie L. Hart, Treasurer: Chair, Board of Directors, Scenic Hudson, Inc.; Lifetime Presidential Councillor and former board member, Cornell University; Trustee, Teacher’s College, Columbia University; Member, Governor’s Advisory Committee for Rivers and Estuaries Center on the Hudson; Former Vice President of YWCA of NY and Chair of Academy of Women Achievers; Former executive of Exxon Corporation; independent consultant; and administrative director of the Municipal Art Society.
William A. Ackman: Founder and President of the Managing Member of Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P.; Co-founder Gotham Partners Management Co. LLC; Member, Board of Overseers, Center for Jewish History; Board Member, Boys and Girls Harbor.
Harrison M. Bains: Former Vice President and Treasurer of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Trustee and Chair of the Audit Committee, Mercer Global Funds; Board member and Chair of the Audit Committee, B. G. Medicines, Inc.; Trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee, University of Redlands; Trustee, Civil War Preservation Trust; Trustee and Chair of the Finance Committee, Greater Newark Conservancy; Former Trustee, New Jersey Arts Center, the Summit Speech School and the Overlook Hospital Foundation.
Kent L. Barwick: President, Municipal Art Society; Secretary, New York Foundation for the Arts; former President, New York State Historical Association; former Chairman, New York City Landmarks Commission; co-founder, Preservation League of New York State, New York Landmarks Conservancy, the Historic Districts Council; former Director, New York State Council on the Arts.
Cora Cahan: President, New 42nd Street, Inc.; Co-founder/Developer, New Victory Theater and 42nd Street Rehearsal Studios; Founder and Trustee Emeritus, Joyce Theater; Developer, Lawrence A. Wien Center for Dance and Theater; Co-founder and former Executive Director, The Feld Ballet; Board Member, Governor's Commission Honoring Achievements of Women in New York State, and New York Convention and Visitors Bureau (NYC & Company).
Nancy N. Campbell: Chairman Emeritus, National Trust for Historic Preservation; White House Millennium Committee to Save America's Treasures; Trustee, Historic Hudson Valley, Hollins University; Trustee's Council, Preservation League of New York State; Special Advisor to Connecticut Commissioner of Transportation, 1991-1994; Doctor of Humane Letters (Hon.), Wesleyan University.
Marvin Chudnoff: Managing Partner, Real Estate Investments Division of Blank Rome Tenzer Greenblatt LLP; former Chairman, The Balcor Company, 1989-1995, CPR Division of Lehman Brothers, 1991-1993; former Vice Chairman, Julien J. Studley and Edward S. Gordon Company (ESG), 1980-1996.
Michael Field: Executive Vice President of Real Estate at Edison Properties, LLC; Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for Project Renewal; Trustee of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.
Adam R. Flatto: President, The Georgetown Company; Co-Chairman, The Enterprise Foundation NYC; Executive Committee Member and Co-Chairman of Real Estate Committee, the International Center of Photography, Robin Hood Foundation Leadership Council
Karl Katz: Executive Director, MUSE Film and Television; former Chairman for Special Projects, Metropolitan Museum of Art; projects include: Museum of the Jewish Diaspora; Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles; Hans Christian Andersen Museum, Copenhagen; Museum of the Twentieth Century, Helsinki.
Edward G. Klein, Major General (Ret.): Former Commanding General of the New York Army National Guard, including the period following 9/11; retired November 2003; President and CEO of Action Investigative Services; New York City Police Department Detective Supervisor overseeing major organized crime and narcotics investigations, retired 1985; member of the Veterans of the Seventh Regiment.

Gen. Klein will oversee the efforts to guarantee the preparedness of the building for use in a national emergency.
Arie L. Kopelman: Vice-Chairman, Chanel, Inc.; Chairman, Winter Antiques Show Committee; Trustee, East Side House Settlement, Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, Municipal Art Society, New York City Ballet, Columbia Business School; President, Nantucket Historical Association; former Trustee, St. Bernard’s School.
Stephen Lash: Chairman, Christie’s America; former Managing Director, Christie’s Trusts and Estates Department, 1976-1997; mayoral appointee, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Director and former Chair, New York City Landmarks Conservancy; Director, Muse Foundation, Art Services International, The Preservation League of New York State, The National Building Museum; Board Member, Peabody Essex Museum Board of Overseers, Salem, MA; former President, Association of Yale Alumni of Metropolitan New York; Founder, Ocean Liner Museum; former Vice President, S.G. Warburg and Company.
Burt Manning: Chairman Emeritus, J. Walter Thompson Company Worldwide; board member, New York Landmarks Conservancy, National Actors Theatre; Trustee, Museum of Television and Radio; Member of the Advertising Hall of Fame and the National Sales and Marketing Hall of Fame.
Anne L. Millard: President, Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, 150 East 73rd Street Corporation, East 73rd Street Block Association and Babies Hospital Board of Women Managers; Director, Trust for Public Land, NYC Advisory Council; Trustees Council, Preservation League of New York State; Trustee, New York State Trooper Foundation.
Joel I. Picket: Chairman/CEO of Gotham Organization, Inc. and Gotham Construction Company, LLC; Member of the Board of Directors, Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc.; Member, Board of Governors and Executive Committee, Real Estate Board of New York; former Member and Director, National Housing Conference; and former Member, Board of Directors, Building Contractors Association; Member, Board of Trustees and Executive Committee, Continuum Health Partners; Member, Board of Overseers, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University; Member, Advisory Board, Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute; Member, Board of Directors, Richard Tucker Music Foundation, the Foundation for the National Archives, New York Philharmonic; Member, Board of Trustees, Fordham University;� University Council, Cornell University and Member, Lincoln Center Real Estate and Construction Council.
Joel Press: Managing Director at Morgan Stanley-Prime Brokerage; Former Senior Partner and Leader, Ernst & Young Global Hedge Fund Practice; Chancellor, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus.
Richard Ravitch: Partner, Ravitch Rice and Company; Democratic Co-chair, Millennial Housing Commission; former Chair, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York State Urban Development Corporation and the NYS Economic Development Board; Chair, Corporation for Supportive Housing; Trustee, Twentieth Century Fund, Mount Sinai - NYU Health and Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Genie H. Rice: Chairman, CIVITAS Citizens, Inc.; Former Director, YWCA of the City of New York; Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Service Award 1998; Coordinator, Alliance to Preserve the Warburg Mansion (1982); Trustee, Clark University.
Rebecca Robertson: President and CEO, Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy; former Executive Director, Lincoln Center Redevelopment Partnership; former Vice President, The Shubert Organization; former President, 42nd Street Development Project, Inc. (1990-1997); Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Board Member, 42nd Street Development Project, Inc. and New 42nd Street, Inc.
William D. Rondina: Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Connaught Group, which includes The Carlisle Collection and Etcetera; Trustee, Carnegie Hall; Board Member, New York Botanical Garden.
Janet Christine Ross: Independent Artist; board member, Blair House, Municipal Art Society; Trustee, Preservation League of New York State; member Board of Managers, East Hampton Library.
Brendan Sexton: Environmental and Government Relations Consultant; former President, Times Square Business Improvement District; Board member and former President, Municipal Art Society; former Commissioner of Sanitation, New York City; Treasurer, The Landmarks Preservation Foundation; Treasurer, National Lighthouse Museum
Jeffrey Silverman: President and CEO, Integrated Color Solutions, Inc.; Board Member, New York Chapter of Multiple Sclerosis; Founder and Chairman, Friends of the Lake.
Donald J. Toumey: Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; Special Assistant to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1982-1985.