Real Estate

J. Tomilson Hill is a Managing Director at Two Sigma, Chief Executive Officer of Two Sigma Real Estate and Chairman of Two Sigma’s private investments businesses, which include Sightway Capital, Two Sigma Ventures and Two Sigma Impact. Prior to joining Two Sigma in January 2019, Mr. Hill was the President and CEO of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management and Vice Chairman of Blackstone Group where he served as a member of the Board of Directors.

Mr. Hill is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Business School. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and currently serves on the Investment Committee of the Smithsonian Institution. He serves on the Executive Committee and the Board of Trustees of the Guggenheim Museum. He also serves on the Board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Telluride Foundation, the Advantage Testing Foundation, the Friends of the High Line, and Our Lady Queen of Angels School, a parochial school (K-8th grade) in Spanish Harlem. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Christie’s and a member of the Board of Directors of First Eagle Investment Management Advantage Testing, Inc. and Crux Informatics .

In 2015 Mr. Hill created the Hill Art Foundation in Chelsea (NYC) to provide artists a venue to create exhibitions where they are encouraged to experiment and take risks in showing their work in new ways. Christopher Wool, Charles Ray and Minjung Kim have chosen to create exhibitions in this Peter Marino-designed space in the Getty Building at 24th and Tenth Avenue, which is open to the public. Equally a part of its mission, since inception the HAF established a Teen Curators program for 11th and 12th graders, whose public high schools have suffered cutbacks in their arts education programs.

Rich Gomel is a Managing Director at Two Sigma and Chief Investment Officer of Two Sigma Real Estate. He was most recently the Managing Partner of WeWork’s real estate investment platform. Prior to WeWork, Rich served as Partner and Senior Investment Officer at Junius Real Estate Partners, a specialized real estate investment unit of JPMorgan Asset Management.

Before that, Rich was a Managing Director at Starwood Capital Group, during which he also served as CEO of Groupe du Louvre, an owner and operator of over 1,000 hotels around the world across all market segments. Rich also held various senior positions at Starwood Hotels & Resorts. Rich has a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Rich previously served on various boards including Groupe du Louvre, Baccarat, 21C Museum Hotels and Hersha Hospitality Management.

Drew Conway is Head of Data Science for Two Sigma Real Estate. Drew is a prominent data scientist, entrepreneur, author, and speaker. He’s built companies and has advised and consulted across many industries, ranging from fledgling startups to Fortune 100 companies, as well as academic institutions and government agencies at all levels.

Drew has spent more than a decade working in the New York City data science and technology community. Prior to joining Two Sigma, he was the founder and CEO at Alluvium, an enterprise AI startup acquired in January 2019. Drew is also the co-founded of DataKind (2011), a global non-profit of pro bono data scientists; and currently sits on the advisory boards of multiple startups, academic institutions, and government agencies.

Drew holds a Ph.D. in Politics from New York University and a B.A. in Computer Science and Political Science from Hamilton College.