Lisa Tilney is a Managing Director at SPD, responsible for the firm’s Advisory practice. Ms. Tilney is actively involved in the due diligence process for a number of projects, drawing on experience as an architect for Gwathmey Siegel, Thomas Phifer + Partners (both in NYC), and Barkow Leibinger in Berlin, Germany. She spent 10 years as a project manager, developing in-depth experience overseeing design and construction of complex capital projects of various types, including industrial conversions, non-profit cultural institutions, residential development, and commercial interiors. Specific past projects include a number of tenant fit-outs for a 6 million square-foot campus at Industry City in Brooklyn, a 200,000 square-foot build out for BuzzFeed, and a 42,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art recording studio, lounge, and auditorium for the Red Bull Music Academy.
Prior to joining SPD in 2013, Ms. Tilney founded Oxalis Development, an independent consulting firm focused on project management and residential development. She was a project manager for the Jonathan Rose Companies for five years, where she managed approximately $130 million worth of non-profit projects. Her early career started on Wall Street where she worked for the hedge fund, D.E. Shaw & Co.
Ms. Tilney received her Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture and her Bachelor of Arts with a degree in History from Yale University.
