The breadth and depth of Roberta’s experience comes from her public and private board leadership and executive positions with regulated real estate and financial services firms ranging from large, traditional organizations to family businesses and young, entrepreneurial companies. As an entrepreneur, she founded a real estate firm in 1999, developed and managed 9 million square feet before a successful exit and earn out. During her tenure, she cemented deep relationships with prestigious clients/tenants such as Bank of America, Trader Joe’s, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, AT&T, and CVS. Her board leadership experience includes Board Chair and Committee Chair roles for Audit, Nominating/Governance, and Compensation Committees. Currently, she serves on the Audit Committee and chairs the Nominating Committee for the Apollo Realty Income Solutions board, a public REIT. She also serves as Board Chair for Buttcon, a family-controlled employee-owned Canadian contractor. Roberta possesses a combination of leadership skills in real estate development, financial transactions, negotiations, digital transformation, marketing, and IT system evaluation. She also has brought her digital and industry expertise to VC and PE backed real estate technology startups. These startups create SaaS, cloud, and device solutions to lower expenses, drive energy efficiency, improve tenant retention using predictive data analytics leveraging machine learning and IoT devices. Previously, Roberta held other board leadership roles including launching Tiedemann Advisors as ALTI on NASDAQ, serving as Compensation Committee Chair for Plaxall, Inc., the Long Island City based family manufacturing and real estate company that secured Amazon for their HQ2 before Amazon withdrew, as well as serving as Board Chair and Nominating/Governance Committee Chair for family controlled HEI Civil. Roberta is a sought-after speaker on Real Estate and Governance topics at universities and organizations such as Harvard Business School, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, Bentley College, The MIT Center for Real Estate, Women Corporate Directors, and the Private Company Governance Summit. She is also fluent in French. In addition to her many accomplishments, Roberta is actively engaged in philanthropy including her service on the Trustee Advisory Board of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard teaching hospital. Roberta has also mentored dozens of entrepreneurs through StartUp Partners, a local coaching initiative she co-founded through Harvard Business School Alumni. She and her spouse reside in Boston and have three grown children.