Debrah Lee Charatan

Debrah Lee Charatan is the president of BCB Property Management Inc., a full-service multifamily and mixed-use real estate firm in New York City. Charatan opened BCB after many years as president of Debrah Lee Charatan Realty Inc. which opened in 1993, and, prior to that, Bach Realty Inc., an all-female firm that she founded in 1980. The two highly successful brokerage firms, based in the greater New York area, earned Charatan considerable accolades and honors for her savviness as a real estate veteran and entrepreneur. At both of these businesses, Charatan forged enduring relationships with some of the city's top financial institutions and earned a reputation for smart decision-making and consistent investments in income-generating properties.

Charatan has been named Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year by Women Business Owners of New York and Outstanding Working Woman by Glamour magazine. She was inducted into the YWCA Academy of Working Achievers, and has also been featured in dozens of national media outlets, including The CBS Morning News, Fortune, Inc., USA Today, Cosmopolitan, Bazaar and Forbes.

A prolific writer and instructor, Charatan has authored numerous articles for the New York Law Journal, Real Estate Weekly, Real Estate Forum, VentureBeat, Entrepreneur, HuffPost, and CFO. Prior to opening BCB Property Management Inc., Charatan taught courses on commercial real estate at New York University and Queens College, and lectured at Columbia Business School, Baruch College and other such institutions.

For the past 25+ years, Charatan has remained philanthropically active through the Charatan Family Foundation, which supports arts, cultural, medical and other humanitarian causes.