Gustave L. Levy Award Recipient

Brian P. Friedman is the President and a Director of Jefferies Financial Group Inc., which he joined in 2001 and has co-led in its transformation from a primarily equity trading broker-dealer into one of the leading investment banking and capital markets firms in the world. 

Brian was previously a partner in Furman Selz LLC, including serving as head of Investment Banking and as a member of its Management and Operating Committees. Prior to Furman Selz, Brian was an attorney with the New York City law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. 

Brian received both a B.S. in economics and an M.S. in accounting from...

Alan C. Greenberg Young Leadership Award Recipient

Wesley Mittman LePatner is a Senior Managing Director in the Real Estate Group at Blackstone and the Global Head of Blackstone’s Core+ Real Estate business. She is a member of Blackstone Real Estate’s Investment Committee and serves as a director and the chief operating officer of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT). Prior to joining Blackstone in 2014, Wesley spent over a decade at Goldman Sachs.

Wesley received a B.A. in history from Yale University, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and serves on the boards of The Hewitt School, The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, and Yale University...