Lamartiniere N. Auguste, CPA Twenty years of NYC institutional commercial real estate finance and operations. PricewaterhouseCoopers. AIG Global Real Estate. CFO of one of the leading office-to-residential conversion platforms in Lower Manhattan. Early in my career at PwC and AIG Global Real Estate, I developed a foundation in complex institutional investment structures and cross-border regulatory environments. At AIG, I was the finance and accounting lead of a foreign investment tax-treaty structure that built and funded the $1.5 billion International Finance Center in Seoul — at the time, the largest foreign direct investment project undertaken in South Korea. In my later CFO role, that early foundation extended into structured finance for real estate office conversions — historic tax credits, master lease structures, and tax abatement programs — alongside securing substantial commercial tax and business incentives, workforce grants, and energy decarbonization incentives across federal, state, and city programs, and leading significant property tax assessment reductions in the tens of millions through the NYC tax certiorari process. However, none of that is why I started this company. Cobalt emerged from the
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