Danielle Naftali

Danielle Naftali stands to take over the real-estate empire her father Miki — known for redeveloping the city's storied Plaza hotel — started building in 2011. Now the family development company, Naftali Group, owns and manages over $9 billion worth of luxury residential and commercial properties in New York, California, and Singapore. Though she oversees the firm's multifamily portfolio in Brooklyn and Manhattan, her current focus is an under-construction luxury condo on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Naftali's affection for real estate grew during her time studying at Syracuse University in upstate New York. She went on to intern as a rental properties associate at Manhattan-based brokerage Cantor & Pecorella. She started out as a receptionist for Naftali Group in 2013. Then, after a three-year stint at companies not headed by her dad, she returned to the family company as a marketing assistant and was promoted to manager in 2016. In 2020 Naftali graduated from NYU with an MBA in real-estate development.