Mary Ann Tighe has served as a director since October 2011. Ms. Tighe has been credited with transforming New York s skyline during her more than 40 years in the real estate industry. Ms. Tighe has been the Chief Executive Officer of CBRE s New York Tri-State Region since 2002, a region of 4,500 employees, and served as a director of CBRE in 2013. Over the course of her career, Ms. Tighe has completed commercial real estate transactions totaling more than 133.5 million square feet in the New York Region, including deals that have anchored more than 16.4 million square feet of new construction. From January 2010 through December 2012, Ms. Tighe served as Chair of the Real Estate Board of New York, the first woman to hold this position in its 114-year history and the first broker in 30 years. Ms. Tighe began her real estate career as a broker at the Edward S. Gordon Company, ultimately rising to the position of Vice Chairman of Insignia/ESG, where she was regularly recognized as being among the firm s top producers. Prior to entering the real estate field, Ms. Tighe served as a Vice President of the American Broadcasting Companies, where she launched the A&E cable channel. Ms. Tighe was also formerly the Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Advisor to Vice President Walter Mondale, and a staff member of the Smithsonian Institution.