Mitchell Friedel is an executive vice president at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, one of New York Citys leading commercial real estate services firms. He works out of its 125 Park Avenue headquarters, and specializes in retail landlord representation.

In that role, he focuses on retail within ground-up, mixed-use development projects nationally and locally. Over his more than 25-year real estate career, Friedel has worked with landlords such as the Walt Disney Co., the Lam Group, Ashkenazy Acquisitions and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

In the eight years prior to joining Newmark Grubb Knight Frank in 2014, Friedel was a third-party consultant at Thor High Street Advisors and RKF & Associates. Before that, he spent 15 years with the Related Companies, handling all of the retail leasing efforts throughout the firm's mixed-use property portfolio. This included the 350,000 square feet of retail at the Time Warner Center

Friedel is an economics graduate of Lehigh University and trained in real estate investment analysis at New York University.