Sarah Beth Lanzone, 23

Sarah Beth Lanzone thought about staying in the South after college, but she wanted the fast-paced life that New York offered.

“I’m very fortunate to start my career at a company like Greystone,” she said. “Everyone is in the office almost five days a week, from leadership to the analysts, which showed me how committed people are. Employees really believe in the work that they do and how they operate.”

The Raleigh-born, Philadelphia-raised Lanzone played soccer, basketball and lacrosse in high school before majoring in finance at the University of Georgia. She joined a college business society and got her first internship after approaching a speaker at an event who worked for a property management company in Charlotte.

Lanzone wanted to find a job that combined her real estate and finance interests, and joined Greystone Monticello’s asset management team last summer. A year later, Lanzone is monitoring the performance of a $730 million portfolio of bridge, mezzanine and working capital loans for multifamily and senior housing, mostly in Texas, California and New York. 

Her goal is to monitor the properties to make sure they’re improving and can eventually exit through federal financing. 

“When there are situations where loans that aren’t performing as expected, that’s when I’ll go in and perform a financial analysis, create a report demonstrating the trend of the loan, forecast the performance, and then come up with a plan to help them get to that desired exit,” she said.

Lanzone doesn’t play much sports anymore but she does love to go on runs along the West Side Highway and has gotten more into cooking.

“In the beginning I was trying out different vegan and seafood options,” she said. “I tried making cauliflower steak and it wasn’t good. I had all these recipes that said it tasted just like a real steak, but it doesn’t seem to be the case. I did try to make boiled peanuts. It’s a big staple in the South that isn’t found north of North Carolina.”