Name: David Schiller, SIOR
Title: Associate Broker & Director of Sales
Company: Pyramid Brokerage Co. of Buffalo/Cushman & Wakefield Alliance
Location: Buffalo, NY
Place of birth: Buffalo, NY
Family: Spouse Beverly, children: Ami, Yonit, Benjamin, grandchild: Naomi
College: Cornell
First job unrelated to your current field: Military, then drip irrigation design & sales
First job in your current field: Pyramid Brokerage Co.
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? Real estate marketing campaigns. Tenant/buyer advocacy. Utilizing best available property marketing information & tools to deliver best results for clients, and effective use of best practices in tenant/buyer advocacy assignments.
Hobbies: Community organizations, Cornell Alumni Assoc., family fun, and some golf
Favorite film: "Dr. Stangelove," "How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb"
Favorite novels: "East of Eden" by Steinbeck, "One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest" by Kesey
Keys to success: Debriefing myself after each assignment, learning what can be improved, and then actually implementing the improvements. Always choosing the "hard right path" over the "easy wrong."
Person you admire most (outside of the family): Abraham Joshua Heschel
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Teacher and researcher of social history
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