Expert Details
Real Estate: Investment, Development, Management, and Condo Conversion
ID: 733367
Florida, USA
• Directed the acquisitions or development and thereafter supervised daily management operations, for more than eighteen thousand (18,000) Company owned luxury and market rate apartments in fifty-five (55) multi-family residential properties located in fourteen (14) states for individual and portfolio properties with multiple stakeholder participation) and successful disposition.
• Planned, organized and directed the daily management operations for over sixty-thousand (60,000) third party owned luxury, market and limited income apartments in more than two hundred fifty (250) multi-family residential and condominium communities located in ten states which together with Company owned apartments, totaled more than seventy-eight (78,000) thousand apartments.
MULTI-TENANT OFFICE PROPERTIES
• Directed the acquisitions and thereafter directed the management operations for thirty-one multiple tenant office buildings containing more than three million two hundred fifty thousand (3,250,000) net rentable square feet of office space located in Eight States, including the largest, single, direct purchase of office properties (Patriot American Investors) in the history of the Resolution Trust Corporation and its successors in interest, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. The office buildings became the basis of Mack-Cali Real Estate Investment Trust.
CONSTRUCTION
• Chief executive/operating officer of two nation-wide construction companies known as Titan Group, Ltd and Sovereign Construction Co. Ltd. Historical projects include; Cleveland Hopkins Airport, Cleveland, Ohio, United States Gold Depository, Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York and (New York’s) Roosevelt Island Development and Housing, New York, New York.
HOTELS
• Directed the acquisitions and thereafter directed the management operations of the original hotel properties together known as the “Patriot American Hospitality Portfolio” from the Resolution Trust Corporation (“RTC”) and its successors in interest, The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (“FSLIC”). Thereafter known as Wyndham Hotels and Resorts.
• Directed the acquisitions and thereafter directed the management operations of “other brand” hotels located in New York, New Orleans and London.
COOPERATIVE AND CONDOMINIUM DEVELOPMENT AND CONVERSIONS
• Individual sponsor of the offerings in accordance with demographic studies and competitive products, directed the conversion to cooperative and condominium ownership of approximately twelve thousand (12,000) Apartments in the Greater New York, as well as three thousand (3,000) additional apartments in nine (9) other states.
COMMUNITY AND RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT
• Planned, acquired and managed the development of “Harris Branch”, an eighteen hundred (1,800) acre mixed use, Planned Unit Development (PUD) in Austin, Texas.
• Planned, organized and managed the development of the “Gardens of the Nativity”, Bethlehem, Palestinian (annexed into Jerusalem, Israel), in partnership with the Episcopal Church of Jerusalem. Coordinated the infrastructure, architecture, engineering and construction as well as financing, including the world-wide sponsorship through a non-profit foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.
Education
Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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Year: 1963 | Degree: BBA | Subject: Business | Institution: Hofstra College |
Work History
Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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Years: 1969 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Chief Executive/Operating officer | Department: Management |
Responsibilities:Responsible for all operations, investments and management. |
Career Accomplishments
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TRUSTEESHIPS • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY) • Adelphi University (Garden City, N.Y.) • New York City Opera (New York, NY) • Dallas Opera (Dallas, TX) • Young Men's Philanthropic League (New York, NY) • Park East Synagogue (New York, N.Y.) • Harvey School (Katonah, N.Y.) • Rippowam Cisqua School (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) |
Awards / Recognition |
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CHARITABLE PARTICIPATION • Founding Benefactor • Albert Einstein College of Medicine • Awarded Humanitarian of the Year • Juvenile Diabetes Foundation • Endowed Research Fellowship in Medical Engineering with Harvard University and MIT • Founding Benefactor • Research Laboratory for the Study of Tumor Cell Biology, • National Asthma Center • Founding Benefactor • Research Laboratory for the Study of Immunodeficiency Disease, National Asthma Center |
Additional Experience
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ACADEMIC SPEAKING • Lecturer on Real Estate Investment and Finance, State University of New York • Lecturer on Condominium Conversions, Practicing Law Institute of New York • Speaker, Baker Program in Real Estate, Cornell University, New York |
Other Relevant Experience |
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INTERNATIONAL APPOINTMENTS ADVISOR AND CONSULTANT *United States Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC Chairman, Committee on Banking & Finance, Romania *United States Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC Co-Chairman Committee for Enterprise Development, *Government of Romania, Advisor to the Minister of Privatization *Government of Romania, Financial Advisor to the President *Government of Austria, Advisor to the Interior Minister |