The female half of New York's cultural power couple, (her husband is Jerry Speyer), Farley graduated from Brown in 1971, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1976. She joined real estate behemoth Tishman Speyer in 1984 and quickly rose from minor executive to major player (along the way she met Mr. Speyer and married him in 1991). She is now a senior managing director at Tishman.