Outstanding Achievements
inspiring others in the industry

Unwavering Dedication
to serving as a catalyst for future leaders

 

Unparalleled Commitment
to mentoring & developing women

​Changing the Corporate Culture
to allow more women to succeed

Setting an Example
for the next generation

2024 Goldie Gala Shero

Molly McShane 

Chief Executive Officer , The McShane Companies

As Chief Executive Officer, Molly McShane manages the overall operations and resources of The McShane Companies, one of the largest commercial real estate development and construction firms in the nation and the second-largest woman-owned business in Chicago. With 11 offices nationwide, The McShane Companies earns well over $1 billion in annual revenue. Since 1984, the firm has delivered more than 40,000 multi-family units and 300 million square feet of industrial construction and has sold over $2 billion in assets.

Molly focuses on creating, planning and implementing The McShane Companies’ strategic direction. She is known for her innovative thinking and values-centric leadership and possesses extensive knowledge of the multi-family, industrial, commercial, office and healthcare market sectors.

Beyond her role as CEO, Molly is incoming chair of Urban Land Institute Chicago and participates in the Women’s Leadership Initiative Chicago Advisory Board. She was the NAIOP Chicago Chapter President in 2018 and contributes as a national board member. She serves on advisory councils for Industrial Women in Real Estate Chicago, Northwestern University Kellogg Real Estate, Marquette University Commercial Real Estate, and Roosevelt University’s Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate. She is also a mentor with The Goldie Initiative.

Molly has received numerous awards, including Crain’s Chicago Business Notable Women in Construction and Design and Illinois Real Estate Journal Woman of the Year. Molly earned a BS in Marketing from Boston College and MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

    2023 Goldie Gala Shero

    Mary Ludgin

    Head of Global Investment Research, Heitman

    Mary Ludgin is Heitman’s Head of Global Investment Research. She is a partner of the firm and sits on its Global Management, Investment, and Valuation Committees. Mary oversees Heitman’s work in the realm of ESG and has served as editor of the series on Climate Risk that Heitman authored in collaboration with the Urban Land Institute. The third report in that series was released in February 2022 and focuses on Climate Migration.

    Mary served as a Global Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and as chair of ULI’s Chicago District Council. She currently chairs the board of ULI’s Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate. She previously served as Chair of the Pension Real Estate Association, President of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries, and President of the Real Estate Research Institute. In 2019, Mary received PREA’s James A. Graaskamp award, which recognizes researchers whose work contributes to the common body of knowledge regarding real estate investment.

      2022 Goldie Gala Shero

      Pamela A. Boneham

      Board Member and Advisor, Institutional Real Estate Investment Executive

      Pam is a passionate leader in the institutional real estate industry, having held management roles at Barings, DWS Group/ RREEF, Equity Office, and JLL, while never forgetting her family, her commitment to other women in the field, or the University of Wisconsin Badgers! She was instrumental in the founding of the ULI Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) in Chicago, sits on the Advisory Board of the Wisconsin School of Business Graaskamp Center for Real Estate, and is a former AFIRE Board Member. Her current activities and recent awards include:

      • CBRE Investment Management, Independent Member of Americas Direct Real Estate Investment Committee overseeing more than $20 billion AUM
      • Ventas Investment Management, Ventas Life Science and Healthcare Real Estate Fund, Senior Strategic Advisor
      • City of Hope, world-class, non-profit, cancer-care hospital, Investment Committee Member
      • GlobeSt. Women of Influence – 2020
      • Crain’s Notable Women in Commercial Real Estate – 2019

      Pamela A. Boneham’s Story

      2021 Goldie Gala Shero

      Debra A. Cafaro

      CEO & Chairman, Ventas, Inc.

      Debra A. Cafaro is a self-described working girl from Pittsburgh with an iconic sports-centric leadership approach that brings people together. The success she created at Ventas is unparalleled, just like her commitment to women leaders.

       

      • Raised Ventas’ market capitalization from $990M to $28B
      • Twice named one of the Forbes’ World’s 100 Most Powerful Women
      • Top 100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World for six consecutive years by Harvard Business Review
      • Longest running woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company
      Debra A. Cafaro’s Story

      Goldie Gala 2020 Shero Award Honoree 

      Lynn Reich is currently an Executive Vice President in Chicago with Colliers International and has been working in the industry for 40 years, as an industrial and commercial real estate specialist. Lynn has extensive national project experience, including consummating 2.4 million square feet of transactions in the last 12 months. Lynn is a past president of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR), an international trade association, which along with Colliers International professionals, assists her efforts in acquisitions, dispositions and other transactions on a nationwide basis.

      Prior to her role with Colliers, Lynn was a principal with Podolsky Northstar Realty Partners, LLC, a Managing Director at Stein and Company and a founding member of Corporate Realty Advisors.. She is a graduate of DePaul University, earned an Accounting degree and obtained the CPA designation. She is one of 965 real estate professionals nationwide to hold the double designation of SIOR and CCIM. She has also served as a Mentor with The Goldie Initiative along with participation in the Colliers’ mentor program.

      Lynn has received numerous production awards from Colliers International, including the Top Industrial Producer. In 2016, Lynn received a Lifetime Achievement Award from CREW Chicago.

      2020 Gala Shero

      Lynn Reich 

      Colliers International

      • Everest Top 10% Producer, Colliers Americas region (2011-2016, 2019)
      • Top Industrial Producer, Colliers Chicago (2013)
      • Colliers Largest Number of Consummated Transactions (2008)
      • Colliers Largest Number of Industrial Transactions (2003, 2005)

      Society of Industrial and Office Realtors – International

      • Operations Director, (2015-2017)
      • Past President, (2009-2010)
      • Most Inter-City Transactions, Third Place (2009)
      • Largest Number of Inter-City Transactions, First Place (2006)
      • Largest Number of Inter-City Transactions (1998, 1989)
      • SIOR Instructor of the Year (1997, 1995)
      • Largest Transaction (1996)
      • Largest Inter-City Transaction (1992)

          Society of Industrial and Office Realtors – Chicago Chapter

          • Largest Number of Industrial Inter-Chapter Transactions
            (2010, 2008, 2006)
          • Largest International Transaction (2006)

          SIOR Foundation

          • Board of Trustees, (2007 – present)
          • Past President, 2006

          Other Honors

          • Inductee, Midwest Real Estate Journals –
            Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame (2017)
          • Crain’s Most Influential Commercial Real Estate Brokers in Chicago (2017)
          • Winner, SIOR Foundation, The Millie Award (2017)
          • 2016 CREW Chicago Industry Leadership Award
          • Winner, CoStar Group Power Broker (2014, 2011, 2009, 2008)
          • Winner, CREW and Illinois Real Estate Journal Career Achievement Award (2008)
          • Winner, Chicago Sun-Times Industrial Broker of the Year (1994)

          Goldie Gala 2019 Shero Award Honoree 

          Karen Case

          Karen Case is Executive Managing Director and President of US Commercial Real Estate for CIBC US. She oversees the business units that develop and manage real estate finance and banking relationships with dynamic and growing commercial real estate developers, investors, owners and operators nationally. Ms. Case is a member of the CIBC US Region Executive Committee.

          Ms. Case joined The PrivateBank in 2007 (Toronto-based CIBC acquired The PrivateBank in June 2017) as President, Commercial Real Estate. Previously, Ms. Case served as executive vice president in LaSalle Bank’s Commercial Real Estate Department (LaSalle Bank was acquired by Bank of America in October 2007). Prior to joining LaSalle in 1992, Ms. Case managed banking relationships with Midwest-based real estate development and syndication firms for New York-based Marine Midland Bank and The First National Bank of Chicago.

          Ms. Case earned her MBA from The University of Chicago and a BS in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis. She also attended The University of London and The American College in Paris.

          A native of New York, Ms. Case lives in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood with her husband, Jay. They have three grown children.

          CURRENT BOARDS:
          Community Investment Corporation
          JDRF Illinois Chapter (Lifetime board member)
          JDRF International (Chancellor)
          Rush University Medical Center
          TimeLine Theatre

          PRIOR BOARD EXPERIENCE:
          Chicago Architecture Foundation
          The Chicago Network
          CREW Chicago
          Girl Scouts of Chicago (past president)
          International Council of Shopping Centers
          Real Estate Finance Forum (co-founder and past president)
          ULI Chicago District
          Washington University Alumni Club of Chicago (past chair)

          PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
          CREW Chicago
          The Chicago Network
          The Economic Club of Chicago
          The Executives Club of Chicago
          International Council of Shopping Centers
          Leadership Greater Chicago (Fellow, Class of 1997)
          Real Estate Finance Forum

          RECOGNITIONS, AWARDS & HONORS:

          • Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana –
            Luminary Award (2018)
          • Crain’s Chicago Business –
            Most Influential Women in Commercial Banking (2017)
          • Chicago Architecture Foundation – Catalyst Award (2017)
          • Crain’s Chicago Business – 100 Most Connected People (2016)
          • JDRF Illinois – President’s Award (2014)
          • Today’s Chicago Woman – TCW’s 32 Role Models (2014)
          • Bisnow – Chicago Power Women in Real Estate (2014)
          • CREW Chicago – Industry Achievement Award (2014)
          • Today’s Chicago Woman – 100 Women Making a Difference (2013, 2011)
          • CREW Chicago – Impact Award (2011)
          • Crain’s Chicago Business – Women to Watch (2008)
          • Illinois State Treasurer Judy Barr Topinka –
            Woman Making a Difference (2003)
          • Girl Scouts of the USA – Thanks Badge (2001)
          • WTTW-TV 11 – SCGK Honors (1999)
          • Midwest Women’s Center – Tribute to Chicago Women (1995)
          • Girl Scouts of the USA – Honor Pin (1995)

          Goldie Gala 2018 Shero Award Honoree 

          Sheli Z. Rosenberg
          Principal, Roselin Investments

          Sheli Z. Rosenberg is a principal with Roselin Investments. Prior to January 1, 2014, she was a member of the Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Real Estate Group, having joined the firm’s Chicago office in 2011. Sheli is the former president, chief executive officer and vice chairman of Equity Group Investments, L.L.C. She joined EGI in 1980 as the company’s general counsel and rose to become CEO before retiring in 2003. Prior to joining EGI, Sheli was one of six managing partners at Schiff Hardin & Waite, Chicago, specializing in real estate, finance, and corporate law, and was the first woman to become a capital partner at that firm.

          Ms. Rosenberg serves on the board of directors/trustees of a number of public and private corporations, foundations, and community and charitable organizations.

          She is a forceful advocate for women in business and is past president of The Chicago Network and director of The National Partnership for Women & Families and The Women’s Issues Network Foundation. Sheli is a co-founder and former president of the Center for Executive Women at Kellogg Graduate School of
          Management. She earned a BA in History and Government from Tufts University, and a JD from Northwestern School of Law.

          ​Goldie Gala Shero Award Winner: Sheli Rosenberg on Women in Leadership