Advisor and connector. Built from investing. Focused on execution.
We work where capital meets operations — with founders, operators, and their investors.
HASKIL — Hebrew for insight, wisdom, and prudence. It also reads as “has skill.” Where insight becomes action.
Strategy only works when the organization and leadership can deliver it. That’s where we operate — translating strategy into capital, places, and organizations, and bringing together the people and partners to make it real.
Irina Zavina-TareFounder
HASKIL operates at the intersection of capital, development, and leadership.
Founder Irina Zavina-Tare has sourced, structured, and managed investments — and worked inside the operating businesses that bring them to life.
As an advisor, we bring clarity to strategy, capital, development, and execution. As a connector, we bring together the leaders, partners, and platforms required to deliver it.
Advisor and connector. Strategy and execution are not separate.
Experience across investing, development, and operations.
Clarity on what works — and who can actually deliver it.
Strategy, executive search, leadership assessment and organizational advisory for investors, founders and operators.
We work where capital meets operations, helping founders, operators and their investors put the right strategy and the right leaders in place.
Until recently, Irina was a Partner at Highridge Search, a firm she co-founded to provide bespoke advisory focused on leadership and hiring across real estate investment, development, and hospitality.
Prior to Highridge, she led her own investment and development advisory practice focused on lifestyle-driven hospitality and mixed-use projects, including lodging, multifamily, food and beverage, and neighborhood-oriented concepts. She worked closely with developers, investors, and operators on expansion strategy, project planning, acquisitions and dispositions, valuation, programming, and capital raising.
Irina has held investment and business development roles at Gansevoort Hotel Group, Credit Suisse Asset Management, and American Express. She began her career as an investment banking analyst in Merrill Lynch’s Global Telecom and Media Group in New York, focusing on M&A and corporate finance transactions, followed by a role in Strategic Alliances at Level 3 Communications.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Chicago, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is also certified in leadership assessment methodologies and integrates these into her advisory and selection work.
Based in: New York
Experts we bring into our work.
Real Estate, Strategy & Research
Natalia is a real estate and business development professional with over two decades of cross-border experience. She leads development and relationship management with ultra-high-net-worth individuals and works across both sides of the residential market, supporting individual buyers while advising developers on the branding and positioning of their real estate in the condominium market. She also advises founders and businesses on real estate expansion across industries.
She has built this experience across a family office, Douglas Elliman, Corcoran Sunshine, and Highridge Search, an executive search firm focused on real estate finance, development, and hospitality.
She holds a BBA in finance from ISG Paris. She speaks English, Russian, and French, is an avid tennis player, and brings a genuine curiosity about people and industries to everything she does. She is based in Palm Beach, FL.
Leadership & Talent Development
Yana is an INSEAD executive coach and ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with 20+ years of international experience in leadership development, executive coaching, and culture change. She has worked with 500+ senior leaders and teams across financial services, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, technology, and academia, at global organizations including Bank of America, Coca-Cola, the World Bank, IFC, Wipro, Nestlé, Pernod Ricard, and the World Economic Forum, among others.
She recently served as a Talent Development Executive at Bank of America, founded the C-Suite Readiness women’s leadership platform and the Global Coach Institute, and has taught as adjunct faculty at NYU.
Yana holds a BSB in Business Administration from Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and an MA in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University’s Teachers College, and is certified in leadership assessment methodologies, including Hogan. She is based in New York.
Design & Development
Architect and real estate executive with 20+ years delivering landmark hospitality, residential, and commercial developments worldwide, from One World Trade Center to a one-of-a-kind Tribeca project.
Until recently, Irene was Vice President of Design & Architecture at a Global Private Real Estate Family Office, leading bespoke luxury hospitality and residential developments across New York and Europe. She is also Co-Founder of Ingenious Global Design, a consultancy for private clients in New York and Paris.
Prior to that, Irene led development of Germany’s largest digital, high-end mixed-use neighborhood in Berlin, anchored by a 180-room Althoff hotel and 250 serviced apartments.
At Rockwell Group, New York, she led design and innovation across hospitality, commercial, and retail, including a nationwide rebrand for Starwood across 10+ properties. She spent six years at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, designing the podium wall of One World Trade Center, known as the Freedom Tower. She began her career at Steven Holl Architects, designing award-winning projects including a wine resort and spa in Austria and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Expansion.
She holds a Master’s from Columbia University GSAPP (DAAD Scholar) and a Dipl.-Ing. in Architecture from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany. Irene speaks English, German, French, and Spanish. She splits her time between New York and Berlin.
F&B Strategy & Development
Jessica is a food and beverage development consultant who advises owners, developers, operators, and hospitality brands on the strategy, concept development, design, and execution of food and beverage projects. She helps clients translate ambitious visions into commercially successful concepts and memorable guest experiences by aligning culinary, design, operational, and development priorities from early strategy through project delivery. Her work spans hotels, mixed-use developments, office towers, cultural institutions, and entertainment venues.
Prior to founding her advisory practice, Jessica led global development for the Altamarea Group, overseeing the expansion of its chef-driven restaurant portfolio across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Jessica holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University. She is based in New York.
Senior Advisor
Managing Partner and Head of U.S. Asset Management, BGO
Rob Naso is a Managing Partner and Head of U.S. Asset Management at BGO, where he oversees business plan execution for all real estate holdings across the firm’s U.S. portfolios, including asset management, development, construction, marketing, leasing and risk management. He sits on multiple U.S. Investment Committees and is a member of the firm’s U.S. Management Committee.
Rob brings 32 years of institutional real estate experience, including 13 years based in Asia, where he managed teams across the region and lived in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore. His experience spans acquisitions and dispositions, asset management, capital markets, and capital raising and investor relations, across both hard assets and entity-level investments. He founded Green Bridge Asia Capital in 2012, where he served as Managing Director. He joined Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing in 2002, where he was Head of Asset Management for Asia-Pacific. Earlier, he spent 10 years at Prudential Real Estate Investors in asset and portfolio management.
Rob was a founder of GreenFort Capital, a Brisbane-based development company, in 2016 and serves as a non-executive member of its Board of Directors. He is an active member of ULI and a member of the Board of Directors of The Goldie Initiative, which focuses on the future empowerment of women in commercial real estate. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Scranton and an MBA from New York University.
Senior Advisor
Founder, SIXTY Hotels and Thompson Hotels
Jason Pomeranc is the founder of SIXTY Hotels and a co-founder of Thompson Hotels. His hospitality career began in 1997 at the Pomeranc Group, a family-operated real estate development firm. Within four years, Jason and his brothers, Lawrence and Michael, opened their first property, 60 Thompson in New York City. Launched in 2001, it was a pioneer of SoHo’s luxury lifestyle hotel sector.
The opening of 60 Thompson led to the creation of Thompson Hotels, an award-winning brand that soon earned international recognition. For more than 12 years, Jason served as Co-Founder and Creative Director of Thompson Hotels, and with his partners developed, rebranded and renovated more than 13 hotels across North America and the UK, working with leading collaborators in restaurants, nightlife, art, branding and design. Following the 2011 merger that formed Commune Hotels + Resorts, he served as its co-chair.
In 2014, Jason launched SIXTY Hotels as part of SIXTY Collective, the hospitality company he helped found. In November 2021, he launched CIVILIAN, a hotel in New York City. He continues to develop boutique hotels that pair accessible luxury design with the conveniences today’s travelers expect, with additional projects in development.
Before turning to hospitality, Jason worked at Rosenberg & Estis, a New York real estate firm, where he managed the acquisition and financing of the Condé Nast building at 4 Times Square and specialized in loft law. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from New York University and a Juris Doctor from Cardozo Law School.
Senior Advisor
Senior Managing Director, Cerberus Capital Management
Ron Kravit is a Senior Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management on the Supply Chain and Strategic Opportunities team. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, where he teaches Real Estate Distressed Investing.
Before rejoining Cerberus in 2022, Ron was at Tracker Capital for four years. He previously spent 22 years at Cerberus, most recently as Co-Head of North American Real Estate and a Senior Managing Director. From 1994 to 1996, he was at Apollo Real Estate Advisors. Earlier, he was at G. Soros Realty Advisors/Reichmann International, an affiliate of Soros Fund Management, and separately at the Maxxam Property Company in Houston.
Ron is a senior advisor to several companies, including Platform Ventures and Harridge Development Company, and serves on the boards of Live Earth Inc. and Vertical Cold Storage Inc. He is also a board member of and senior advisor to NorthBridge. He graduated from Georgetown University and received an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Organized by the three modes of our practice — and the leadership work that runs through all of it.
Sixty HotelsRAYCivilian HotelCarver Road HospitalityEmmy Squared PizzaHighridge Search
Family OfficesInvestment and Asset ManagersPrivate EquityPrivate Credit and LendersOwner DevelopersHospitality Operators and Management CompaniesHospitality and Restaurant BrandsFounder-led Companies
Searches and advisory acrossC-SuiteHospitality LeadershipInvestmentsAcquisitionsAsset ManagementCapital MarketsCreditDevelopmentDesignF&BCuration
“Irina writes about leadership at the moments that test it — decisions, transitions, and the patterns that shape how leaders act under pressure.”
Executives interested in future opportunities are welcome to reach us at info@haskil.com.