Michael Fascitelli

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Michael D. Fascitelli is President and a Trustee of the Board of Vornado Realty Trust. He currently serves on the Board of Alexander's Inc. and GMH Communities.

He is a member of the Class of 1978 of the University of Rhode Island where he received his BS in Industrial Engineering Summa Cum Laude. After graduating from URI, Mr. Fascitelli joined the Bristol Myers Company. In 1982 he received his MBA with highest distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. After graduating from Harvard in 1982, Mr. Fascitelli joined McKinsey & Company, Inc., a management-consulting Firm.

In 1985 he joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Real Estate Department. He became partner in 1992 and was head of the real estate investment banking business. He served on the Investment Committee for the Whitehall Investment Committee. In December 1996 he became President of Vornado Realty Trust.

Mr. Fascitelli has been active over the years in the real estate industry and his community. He is a trustee and member of the Urban Land Institute. He is on the Executive Committee and Vice Chairman of the Wharton Real Estate Center. He serves on the Board of the New York University Child Study Center, The Rockefeller University Board of Trustees and St. Bernard's Board of Trustees. He is also on the Board of Dean's Advisors of the Harvard Business School. From the Greater New York Councils Boy Scouts of America he received the Good Scout award and the James E. West Fellow award in 1997 and he received the Silver Beaver Award in 2003.^[1]

He has three sons. Nick(15), Matt(14), and Jack(11). He also has a wife named Elizabeth. He has recently received honors from the Harvard Business School as Alumni of the Year, and from URI as he got an honorary doctorate degree. He is widely respected as one of the top negotiators, and businessmen in the world.