Sandy Jacolow is the Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer at Empire State Realty Trust. He oversees technology innovation in support of Property Management, Leasing, Development, the Empire State Building Observatory, Sustainability, and PropTech activities. He works closely with the Information Technology, Cyber, and Compliance teams to monitor and mitigate risks associated with today’s cyber threats.
Prior to Empire State Realty Trust, Mr. Jacolow served as Chief Information Officer at Meridian Capital Group, a role in which he oversaw their brokerage, investment sales, and retail leasing initiatives. Prior to Meridian he served as Silverstein Properties’ Chief Information Officer, a role in which he oversaw technology initiatives supporting the company’s property management, asset management, leasing, digital marketing, PropTech, and construction & development activities. His role included similar responsibilities for New York City’s iconic World Trade Center complex.
Mr. Jacolow currently is a team lead of the NYC InfraGard Real Estate Working Group, member of the RECC (Real Estate Cyber Consortium) Executive Council, Board Member of the Global Cyber Consortium, a member of the Realcomm Advisory board, and member of the Real Estate of New York (REBNY) Technology Steering Committee, and former chairperson of their Cyber Security Committee and the co-founder of their annual PropTech Challenge.
In spring 2026, a self-replicating worm called Mini Shai-Hulud tore through the npm (Node Package Manager) and PyPI (Python Package Index) ecosystems, compromising roughly 170 packages across hundreds of malicious versions, with
Corporations today face a difficult balancing act. Cyber threats are more sophisticated, phishing and social engineering attacks are highly targeted, and trust is increasingly exploited as an attack vector. At the same
