Launer of JLL and Stricoff of Cushman & Wakefield join CIBS’ associate board

Eric Launer, Jones Lang LaSalle

Syosset, NY Eric Launer, an executive vice president in the Melville office of Jones Lang LaSalle, and Robert Stricoff an associate in the Melville office of Cushman & Wakefield Inc., have been appointed to the associate board of the Commercial Industrial Brokers Society of Long Island (CIBS).

“Eric Launer and Robert Stricoff have long been active in the commercial real estate industry on Long Island and we look forward to their input as board members of CIBS,” said Kyle Burkhardt, president of CIBS.

Prior to joining JLL in 2013, Launer was a principal of the Long Island office of Newmark Knight Frank and previously was a senior executive director at Sutton & Edwards Inc. (now Colliers Long Island), where he was ranked as a top producer from 1999 through 2006. Earlier, he served as a project manager for residential real estate development, and later as an associate director with another commercial real estate firm in NYC.

Robert Stricoff, Cushman & Wakefield

Launer, who leads the tenant representation team for JLL’s Long Island office specializing in office leasing, has been responsible for more than 1 million s/f of real estate transactions throughout the New York metropolitan market. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University. He is a resident of Syosset.

Stricoff, who was CEO of the town of Babylon’s Industrial Development Agency for almost 12 years, is now a licensed real estate broker and a member of C&W’s economic incentives group. 

A resident of Oak Beach, Stricoff holds a bachelor of arts in Political Science from Queens College and a master of science in public administration, from Central Michigan University.