Commercial Industrial Brokers Society Long Island elects executive board

Kyle Burkhardt, Cushman & Wakefield

David Leviton, CBRE

Daniel Wiener, Avision Young

Michael Rosenfeld, Rochlin Org.

Melville, NY According to the Commercial Industrial Brokers Society of Long Island (CIBS), the authoritative voice on Long Island for commercial real estate, a new executive board has been elected to open the organization’s 25^th anniversary year.

The new executive board members, who will serve two-year terms beginning January 1^st, are:

• President Kyle Burkhardt, of Seaford. He is a senior director in the Melville office of Cushman & Wakefield Inc. and formerly was vice president of CIBS.

• Vice president David Leviton, of East Setauket. He is a senior vice president in the Melville office of CBRE and formerly was treasurer of CIBS.

• Treasurer Daniel Wiener, of Huntington. He is a senior director in the Melville office of Avison Young and formerly was secretary of CIBS.

• Secretary Michael Rosenfeld, of Glen Cove. He is an associate broker at The Rochlin Organization, Melville.  He previously was a CIBS board member.

Current president David Chinitz, of Fort Salonga, will become chair of the CIBS advisory board. He is president of Park Place Realty, Melville.

“CIBS members are commercial real estate professionals who play a significant role in the economic growth and vitality of Long Island. For 25 years, CIBS has maintained a valuable and respected role in the discussion of commercial development on Long Island and has provided vital support and education for its members,” Burkhardt said. “As the new president, I join with my colleagues on the board in recommitting ourselves to our purpose, which is to remain an active voice for the commercial real estate industry and to renew our support of the communities we serve.”

CIBS was formed in 1992 out of the shared belief among the region’s leading brokers that the region needed a unified voice to advocate on behalf of professionalism, ethics and industry cohesion.  Today, CIBS is a leading voice and advocate for commercial development in the Long Island market.  Since its formation, CIBS has helped upgrade the industry by offering hundreds of educational programs, seminars and presentations; advocated professional standards and offered grievance resolution; provided informal mentoring relationships; raised tens of thousands of dollars for local charities; and created social settings in which colleagues have become friends, and competitors respected peers.