Renée Williams is the Founder of GoodWill Real Estate, a Committee member of the Warwick Valley Rotary Club, and a member of Leadership Orange — helping to identify and cultivate the next generation of leaders in Orange County. A product of a proud military family with Midwestern roots, her many travels and several years living abroad have installed a deep-rooted commitment to serving others. Renée is bright, charming, and savvy, with the firsthand expertise to operate with the utmost confidence and transparency that her buyers, sellers, and investors have come to rely upon. An authentic personality with a genuine warmth towards an individual's circumstance and opinion.
Her career began as a political analyst in London's Parliament, followed by nearly a decade in Private Equity as a Financial Analyst in Midtown, Manhattan, at a global real estate-oriented merchant bank, asset management, and investment company — the industry leader in distressed and value-focused real estate investing (and owner of NAI Global and PZR, the nation's largest zoning due diligence company) earning her unrivaled experience across the real estate industry.
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She relinquished her role at C-III Capital Partners at the end of 2019 to devote more time to social impact matters. Renée has since led Corporate Relations, Diversity Training, and Partnership Engagement at a minority-led, technology and social impact company in SoHo, New York providing top millennial, corporate professionals access to philanthropic, board leadership opportunities within well-known nonprofits and foundations.
Renée relocated from Brooklyn to the Hudson Valley after acquiring a small, well-positioned bungalow in foreclosure on Greenwood Lake and redeveloping the property into an idyllic five-bedroom, three-story contemporary-modern, designer lakefront home with her husband. Renée is a licensed professional with experience across mixed-use commercial and residential real estate and firsthand property development and interior design experience.
A Political Science graduate of Boston University and Foreign Language Studies at London School of Economics, Renée is also an active member of the prestigious Alumni Society, an elite network of senior-level Latinx leaders who graduated from the country's top universities.
A former nationally ranked Rhythmic Gymnast and New England Patriots Cheerleader, Renée enjoys an active life full of travel and adventures with her husband and two young children in the Hudson Valley.
