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Posted: November 14, 2023
2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Howard Leiner of Arbor Realty Trust
Executive VP, Chief Technology Officer
Arbor Realty Trust
Leiner’s team won a Fannie Mae DUS Technology Partner award in Q2 2023 for their work in developing new real estate lending application programming interfaces (APIs) for secure government-sponsored agency data exchange. Their work helps multifamily borrowers acquire financing more quickly and smoothly.
Who inspires you most? What qualities do they possess that inspire you most?
Giving back inspires me. I also teach Assembly Language programming to undergrad Computer Science majors at Hofstra. It’s incredibly fun, challenging and rewarding to instruct and guide students (with no project strings attached!) and to pay my professional experience forward.
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