Lisa Diaz

Lisa is the Managing Partner and Founder of Turf Advisory. She provides public and private sector clients with strategic and tactical advice on designing, financing and managing next-generation infrastructure to build smarter cities. Lisa is responsible for business development and oversees partnerships with AWS Marketplace, Rubicon Global, The Trust for Public Land, Philips Lighting, Bronx Pro, Save the Sound among others. She curates innovative and pragmatic technology-powered solutions working with clients to market their services to both the public and the private sectors. Lisa identifies opportunities to leverage Smart Cities Technologies to maximize the quality and efficiency of projects. Lisa is a Regional Plan Association (RPA) board member and the Smart Infrastructure Executive-in-Residence at the Baker Program in Real Estate, Cornell University; Guest Lecturer, Cornell Tech. She is a Committee Chair for Westchester Climate Crisis Taskforce, on the Steering Committee of NY Blue Tech and a member of the Smart Cities NY Advisory Board. She is a member of the NYCSBS MWBE Construction Mentorship Program and is a member of the Women’s Builders Council. Previously, Lisa was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where she managed key firmwide relationships among global hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and large mutual fund complexes. She ran the Communications, Media and Telecoms (CME) sector sales team and was involved in both the pitching and execution of a multitude of transactions across a broad range of industry groups including infrastructure.