Kyla Gessin-Stern is a Vice President at Chatham Development Company and has been with the company since 2004. Her responsibilities include acquisitions, development, sales and operations for both commercial and residential properties. Mrs. Gessin-Stern’s current duties include company operations and the management of corporate and asset-level financing, offering plan development for new projects and participating in the creative and design process for the interiors and exteriors of new projects. She started her career at Chatham focusing on the acquisition of development sites in New York City. In 2005, Chatham acquired a parking lot on the corner of West 44th Street and Tenth Avenue, which the company then developed into Chatham44, a 58-unit boutique condominium with four retail units totaling 10,800 square feet. Ms. Gessin-Stern played an instrumental role in numerous aspects of Chatham 44, including identifying and acquiring the land, obtaining the construction loan, purchasing 421a certificates and completing tax lot allocations, developing marketing materials and the marketing plan, designing the sales office, working with the architect to design and ultimately construct the shared vision for the residential and commercial spaces in the building as well as working with legal counsel to assemble the offering plan and subsequent amendments. Simultaneously, she worked on The Chatham at North Hills, a 144-unit luxury townhome development in Manhasset, NY, where she managed the construction financing and offering plan documentation as well as handled the selections of finishes for inventory units and consulted with purchasers on selections for custom units. Mrs. Gessin – Stern holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She also is a licensed sales agent and is a member of Commercial Real Estate Women of New York (formerly AREW).