BARBARA KOZ PALEY
Founder and CEO
Business Experience
Barbara Koz Paley is the Founder and CEO of Art Assets, an art consulting firm that integrates art and culture into real estate projects and art programs for the corporate community. Innovative products and services of Art Assets include ArtLease, a tax-deductible lease designed to acquire fine art for real estate and other companies.
Ms. Paley is also a partner in Atlantic Assets, a company that acquires urban infill properties which require redevelopment and re-tenanting. The current area of focus is Downtown Brooklyn and Crown Heights. Her specialty is mixed-use properties with a retail component.
This ability to re-position properties is the basis of many of the projects Art Assets creates for its Clients.
Clients include JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Taconic, Broadway Partners, Hines, ING Clarion, Grubb & Ellis, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hewitt Associates and CB Richard Ellis.
Prior to founding Art Assets Ms. Paley helped create Realty Advisory Services, a real estate and advisory fund which purchased value-added commercial properties. Founding partners include pension funds, banks, and corporate and real estate professionals.
Education
Boston University B.S., Social Psychology and Fine Arts
Civic
- Urban Land Institute New York / District Council Executive Committee/ Sponsorship Chair
- Harvard University Real Estate Academic Initiative
- Columbia University Business School Lang Entrepreneurial Center. In 2001, she was awarded their first Distinguished Mentor Award.
- Storefront Artists Project / Pittsfield, MA
Former
- Harvard University / Kennedy School of Government
- Taubman Center for State and local Government /Advisory Board 1989-1996
- Women’s Leadership Board /Co-founder 1993-2004
- Council of Foreign Relations, US Foreign Policy and Women Advisory Board 2003-2008
- Real Estate Academic Initiative Program Chair 2004 and 2005 Alumni Conference
- Urban Land Institute /Program Membership and District Council Committees 1983-1997
- Eldridge Street Project /Board Member 1989
- Central Woman’s Focus /Co-Founder 1987
- Association of Real Estate Women /Co-Founder 1978 Recent Events
- Panelist: Harvard University Women in Business Intercollegiate Business Convention “Property to Paintings: The Many Sides of Real Estate,” 4 October 2008
- Panelist: Harvard Business School, Women in Real Estate, 26 January 2008
- Sponsor: Harvard Graduate School of Design, Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning and Urban Design, Lee, Massachusetts, Spring 2008
- Council of Foreign Relations, US Foreign Policy and Women Advisory Board
- Brooklyn Philharmonic Board of Directors Executive Committee