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 developed for their own occupancy, in New York and globally. Their specialty has been the conception and negotiation of large commercial lease transactions. Prior to the formation of 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 the U.S. His earliest employment after earning an MBA at Columbia University Graduate School of Business included several years working for the Uris 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 fellow Cornellian John Foote on the design, creation and funding of a statue of Touchdown (the Bear, Cornell’s unofficial mascot) to be unveiled at the corner of Campus and Garden at Homecoming 2015.

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