Patricia F. Goldstein
Emigrant Bank
Patricia Goldstein joined Milstein Brothers Realty Investors in 2001 to run a new venture in acquisitions and development. In 2004, Ms. Goldstein changed her responsibilities and was appointed Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer for Emigrant Bank, with the Real Estate Department reporting directly to her. Since that time, she has developed a vibrant Real Estate group nationally lending on all types of commercial real estate and in the current environment has been involved in negotiating restructures and workouts. Emigrant Bank is one of the largest privately held banks in the United States and is chaired by Howard Milstein and the Milstein family. In December 2009, she was appointed Vice Chairman of Emigrant Bank, while retaining her responsibilities as head of Commercial Real Estate.
Ms. Goldstein previously served as Division Executive of Citicorp Global Real Estate, with responsibility for investment decisions on the bank’s new real estate opportunities, including CMBS worldwide and loan syndication, as well as workouts and OREO portfolios. She developed extensive experience with all asset classes for both investment and direct real estate owned properties. She also managed sale-leasebacks, emerging market financing transactions and real estate transactions with large global customers. She managed a global real estate organization with offices in the UK, Canada, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Poland and Japan. In all she spent 28 years at Citicorp, in both the 1970s and the 1990s. For most of her career, she worked at Citicorp, where she served as division executive of Citicorp Global Real Estate, with responsibility for the firm’s US$23 billion real estate portfolio. She has also held leadership positions as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of M.J. Raynes and SVP & Treasurer of Olympia & York.
Currently, Ms. Goldstein is a Governor of the Urban Land Institute, where she was previously a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee. She is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable and a former Chairman of the Real Estate Advisory Committee of the New York Retirement Fund. Ms. Goldstein is also a member of WX (New York Women Executives in Real Estate), NYU Women’s Initiative Steering Committee (Alumni Association Committee) and New York University Schack Institute Advisory Board.
