ROSA SCHECHTER

PRINCIPAL & GENERAL COUNSEL, AVENIR HOLDINGS, LANDSTAR DEVELOPMENT AND ECKSTEIN SCHECHTER LAW, CORAL GABLES

Schechter oversees all activities related to deal management and public outreach at Avenir Holdings and the Landstar Development Group, a Coral Gables-based family-owned real estate development group. She also oversees all of Landstar’s legal affairs. The company is the master developer of the Avenir project, a planned community on a 4,700-acre parcel in Palm Beach Gardens. Avenir earmarked 2,400 of those acres for the Avenir Conservation Area, a wildlife corridor that will provide refuge for over 100 different plant and animal species in several different native habitat types.

EDUCATION: Harvard College (BA), University of Miami School of Law (JD)

FIRST JOB: I worked as a summer intern for Sen. Bob Graham.

DREAM ALTERNATE CAREER: I really love what I do. I thought about pursuing a career as a law professor, but that seems very far away!

SOMETHING SURPRISING: I was born in Mexico City.

INDUSTRY TREND: AI is making everything move even faster.