Kristin Boekhoff
GET UPDATES FROM Kristin Boekhoff
 
Kristin Boekhoff is currently developing a sustainable boutique resort in southern Bangladesh where savvy travelers can have a beautiful, authentic, cultural experience while preserving the social and environmental integrity of the area. Panigram will be the first in a collection of resorts that focus on destination stewardship.

In 2006 Ms. Boekhoff was a Fulbright Fellow to Bangladesh where she researched the feasibility of a sustainable, replicable low-income housing real estate development program for female migrant laborers in Dhaka.

Prior to her departure for Bangladesh, she was the Chief Information Officer at CharterMac, one of the US's leading full-service real estate finance companies. Her team worked closely with the asset management, underwriting, acquisitions, accounting, lending, and construction groups to improve the firm's ability to service its developers and investors and to continue the corporate goals of streamlining workflow efficiencies and improving communication between internal and external groups. Previously, Ms. Boekhoff ran the Fund Management Group where she was responsible for developer servicing, cash management, and investor reporting. She managed over $7 billion of equity invested in the firm's 100+ real estate funds and oversaw developer relations for over 1,200 new and stabilized properties.

Before joining CharterMac, Ms. Boekhoff had six years of project management experience, most recently as a business analyst at Neuberger Berman, a financial services firm, where she was responsible for managing large information technology and business reorganization projects. Previously, she worked as a management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Marketing and Customer Management Group.

Ms. Boekhoff received a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.S. in Real Estate Development from New York University.

Blog Entries by Kristin Boekhoff

The Princess and the Power: A Fairy Tale for Modern Women

(0) Comments | Posted May 23, 2012 | 5:40 PM

As a businesswoman, I have spent many years and long hours building my career. I learned to think and act like a man because that is it what it took to rise to the top. Now, twenty years later, successful but single at the age of 37, I no longer...

Read Post

Ecopreneur: Breaking New Ground in Bangladesh

(0) Comments | Posted June 5, 2010 | 1:04 AM

"The assistant district commissioner is really angry and has just left." My intern's voice rang in my ears. We were almost an hour and a half late to our ground-breaking ceremony. Initially I had invited everyone at 11:00 a.m. thinking that most people would arrive around 11:30 a.m. because "Bangladesh...

Read Post

Ecopreneur: Buying Land in Bangladesh

(1) Comments | Posted April 17, 2010 | 11:15 AM

Dozens of villagers crowded into the candlelit land registration office to put their fingerprints on the document that would mean a significant amount of income for them and a gorgeous piece of land in southern Bangladesh for me.

2010-04-17-WorkingbyCandlelight.jpg

My team and I had worked...

Read Post

Ecopreneur: Never Let Them See You Sweat

(1) Comments | Posted October 14, 2009 | 9:17 AM

Koli and I sped down the road on his motorcycle in a torrential downpour. He had left our motorcycle helmets at the project site, so I held my hand over his eyes like a visor to block out as much of the monsoon rains as I could so that he...

Read Post

Ecopreneur: Four Weeks, Three Interns, Two Cows, and 120 Cubic Feet of Mud

(0) Comments | Posted October 11, 2009 | 8:55 PM

The mud pit was empty, the rice straw hadn't arrived, and the cows were nowhere to be found. When we arrived, we found our workers taking a prolonged smoke break, burning daylight with their tobacco with nothing to show for the hours they were supposed to have already worked.

Our...

Read Post

Ecopreneur: An Innovative Way to Attract Investors in a Recession

(7) Comments | Posted September 24, 2009 | 10:47 AM

In 2008 I had a brilliant idea -- I would put together a fund to create socially and environmentally responsible resorts in developing countries around the world. (I used to manage over $7 billion of private equity invested in 100+ real estate funds at a large real estate finance firm...

Read Post

Ecopreneur: From the Boardroom to Bangladesh

(0) Comments | Posted September 9, 2009 | 10:16 AM

Part I: Departing the "Real World" and the Quest for Land

As I bound my breasts and put on men's clothes, I remember thinking how crazy I was. In two years, I went from being an executive in the "c-suite" of a large real estate finance company in New York...

Read Post