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Joseph Thanhauser is the chairman and founder of Byrnam Wood , LLC, a boutique real estate investment,
consulting and brokerage firm based in New York City. The firm represents
clients that lease, buy , or have buildings developeddevelop for their own occupancy, in New York
and globally. Their specialty hasbeen is the conception and negotiation of large commercial lease
transactions. Prior to the formation of forming Byrnam Wood, he was a partner in the
development of hotel and office properties in Philadelphia, PA.; Greenwich, CT.; Baltimore,MD.; Buffalo, NY and elsewhere in throughout the U.S. His earliest employmentafter earning After earning
an MBA at Columbia University Graduate School of Businessincluded , he spent several years working for the Uris brothers Brothers (Uris
Buildings Corp.) and at Tishman Realty (now Tishman Speyer Properties).
He serves on the Cornell University Council and over the past five years has worked with, has endowed prizes/fellowships/
laboratories at Cornell, and worked with fellow Cornellian John Foote
on creating the design, creation and funding of a statue of Touchdown ( the Bear, Cornell’s unofficial mascot) to be unveiled at thecorner of Campus and Garden at Homecoming Cornell’s Sesquicentennial
in 2015.

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