Nate Alize Alison is currently serving as the Co-founder and Managing Director of Sphinx Hospitality, Inc., a real estate investment and hotel operating company. Alizé is the Director or Capital Projects overseeing all development and construction activities for the Make The World Better Foundation, a non-profit foundation that inspires stewardship through public space revitalization projects, and is Co-founder of Pranos.ai, an innovative Silicon Valley-based outdoor publishing platform for consumer generated content. Prior to founding Sphinx Hospitality and Pranos.ai, Alizé was a Business Development Executive at the Y-Combinator (S 2018) tech start-up, Grabb-it, Inc, and a Principal at T3 Advisors, a global commercial real estate tenant rep advisory firm for technology, life science and venture capital companies based in Palo Alto, CA. Prior to joining T3 Advisors, Alizé was Founder and CEO of Hadley Real Estate, a boutique commercial real estate company with a focus on real estate development and construction, transactional brokerage services, and private equity investment opportunities. Over the course of his career Alizé has completed over $3.8 billion in commercial real estate and M&A transactions, which includes nine years serving as a Director of Development for Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust where he spearheaded the development of the company’s ground-up power centers and redevelopment of regional malls including the Monroe Marketplace in Monroe Township (Selinsgrove), PA and the $200 million redevelopment of the Cherry Hill Mall in Cherry Hill, NJ. Alizé began his business career at Lehman Brothers Inc. in their New York and Tokyo offices, most recently serving as an Associate Global Real Estate Controller. Alizé received a Bachelor of Science and Economics with a dual concentration in Real Estate and Finance from the Wharton School of Business in 1999 where he was distinguished as a Martin Bucksbaum Fellow by the faculty of the Zell-Lurie Real Estate Center. Alizé is also a graduate of DiversForce on Board’s governance program sponsored by The Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania, which provides training necessary to achieve greater
effectiveness as organizational leaders while making a social impact in nonprofit organizations and public agencies, boards, and commissions in 2019.