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.
Senior hires, organizational design, development advisory, and strategic partnerships.
We work where capital meets operations — with founders, operators, and their investors.
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
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.
Organized by the three modes of our practice — and the leadership work that runs through all of it.
“Irina writes about leadership at the moments that test it — decisions, transitions, and the patterns that shape how leaders act under pressure.”
