Senior Director at Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group, a mortgage brokerage firm that raises capital for commercial real estate nationwide. Ms. Effron has been with Ackman-Ziff since 2000, and has held her current position since 2001. Prior to Ackman-Ziff, Ms. Effron was a principal with Citadel Real Estate, a boutique real estate banking firm (1999-2001). She also ran a principal mortgage brokerage business from 1996 to 1999, as well as a real estate management business that did acquisition work for GKN Real Estate from 1992 to 1996. Ms. Effron has been a board member at the JCC in Manhattan from 2000-2005. She holds an MBA from the NYU Business School (1989) and a BA from the University of Michigan (1982).