Co-CEO and Principal, GFP Real Estate

Brian oversees all aspects of the company’s new investments, financing, leasing, asset management, development and project management.

Noteworthy recent projects include the repositioning of 4 New York Plaza to 25 Water Street, 222 Broadway, 7 Hanover Square to 100 Pearl Street and 40 Exchange Place in the Financial District; 45-18 Court Square to Innolabs, 10-27

46th Avenue, 11-05 44th Drive, and 43-01 22nd Street in Long Island City; as well as 7 Bushwick Place and 285 North Sixth Street in Brooklyn. Brian led the redevelopment of 100 Crosby/560 Broadway and 1560 Broadway to class A retail and office properties in SOHO and Times Square, respectively, and led the repositioning of The Film Center building in Hell’s Kitchen.

An active member of the community, Brian currently serves on the boards of REBNY, The Downtown Alliance, and Selfhelp Community Services Inc. Past board roles include Columbia Business School’s Real Estate Advisory Board and Real Estate Circle, Cooper Union, the SoHo Broadway Initiative, East Midtown Business Improvement District and the Center for Family Representation.

Brian received his Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia Business School and his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Washington University.

Tanya Selvaratnam is a multiple Emmy-nominated and Webby-winning filmmaker. Tanya is also a critically acclaimed writer who has published two books, Assume Nothing (about intimate violence) and The Big Lie (about fertility awareness), and essays in the New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Glamour, Cosmo, NBC News, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. In 2025, she delivered the TEDx Talk “Truth Is Power: Rewriting the Narrative on Domestic Violence” in Berlin. She has been awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation residency at Yaddo to complete her third book, Love Me and Leave Me. 

Tanya has produced for the Ms. Foundation for Women; the Vision & Justice Project; Joy to the Polls; Aubin Pictures; Story Syndicate; Glamour Women of the Year; The Meteor; Sunrise Collective; NGO Forum/Fourth World Conference on Women in China; and Planned Parenthood.  

She has most recently been an advisor to the Michael Latt Legacy Fund, Pop Culture Collaborative, Open Future Lab, Economic Hardship Reporting Project, The DO World, Let It Ripple, For Freedoms, and Sankofa. Born in Sri Lanka and raised in California, she holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. She lives between New York City and Portland, Oregon.