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May Spotlight: 2018 Ones to Watch

New York, NY The New York Real Estate Journal recently featured a "Ones to Watch" Spotlight, focusing on both up and coming professionals as well as industry veterans across all areas of real estate. Sponsors for this edition include Winick, AmTrust Title, Arbor Realty Trust, Maltz Auctions, Watt and Flux, and Coldwell Banker Commercial Island Corporate Services.

Those featured include: (CLICK on name to view full responses)

Petro Zinkovetsky
Attorney at Zinkovetsky Law Firm 

Joseph Isa
Principal/Owner at Isa Realty Group, LLC

Trent Dickey
Vice President – NYC Landlord Representation at Schuckman Realty Inc.

Brendan Thrapp
Senior Director, Commercial at EXR Group Companies, LLC

Danielle Winick
Executive Vice President at Winick Realty Group, LLC

Michael Saidian
Associate Broker at Capital Property Partners

Lev Mavashev
Founder / Managing Partner at Alpha Realty

Michael Freedberg
President at Suffolk Industrial Properties

Matt Dzbanek
Director of Capital Services at Ariel Property Advisors' Capital Services Division

Peter Vanderpool
President at Cignature Realty

Stefani Steinberg
Senior Associate at CBRE - Long Island Office

Perry Lee
Director of Acquisitions at Margules Properties

Alfonso Oliva
Director at LERA Consulting Structural Engineers

Cameron Ringness
Architect, Lead Designer at FXCollaborative

Holley Drakeford
Founder / President at Drakeford Realty Group

Hugh Finnegan
Partner at Romer Debbas LLP

Giovani Arce
Project Manager at Mojo Stumer + Associates

Christopher Jones
Associate Principal at Magnusson Architecture and Planning

Joseph Gibbons
Principal at SWBR

Sean Cronin
Partner at Cronin & Cronin Law Firm, PLLC

Steven Goldberg
Member - Real Estate Transactions at Rosenberg & Estis, P.C.

Mike Costello
Vice President, N.J. Division at American Security

Tom Burbank
Project Manager and Design Engineer at Atlantic Westchester, Inc.

Yuriy Tupychak
Senior Design Engineer at Prime Engineering, P.C.

Kaunteya Chitnis
Vice President – Acquisitions/Development at MCR

Michael Ehrhardt
Vice President at AmTrust

Natalia Asido Vishnevski
Vice President at City Interior Flooring

Nadine Cino
CEO and Co-Inventor at Tygabox

Deborah Bey
Associate at Akerman LLP

Adam Kaufman
Co-Founder and Managing Director at ArborCrowd

Wilson Ting
Director at Besen & Associates

Bryan Geffen
Broker at Meridian Capital Group

Michael Gronenthal
Licensed Sales Assosicate at Douglas Elliman

Sanjay Mody
Special Counsel at Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP

Tzvi Rokeach
Partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

RoseElla Frankiewich
Senior Vice President, Servicing Operations at Arbor Realty Trust, Inc. - Depew Office

Steven Giordano
Senior Director at Shawmut Design and Construction

Francesca Loftus
CEO and Co-founder at hOM

Nick Romito
CEO and Co-founder at VTS 

Michael Lee
Partner at HKS Capital Partners, LLC

Jason Kurland
Partner at Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP

Baruch Edelkopf
Vice President of Sales at EMH Commercial Realty

Jed Dallek
Partner at Gettry Marcus CPA, P.C.

Orry Michael
Senior Associate at Ariel Property Advisors

Richard Maltz
CEO, President at Maltz Auctions

Stacie Alexiou
CEO, Managing Director at Watt and Flux

Kristen Crossman
Associate at CBRE - New York City Office

Prince Addo
Senior Plumbing Engineer / Team Leader at AKF Group

Kim Lovejoy
Senior Business Developer at EverGreene Architectural Arts

Jack Zalta
Broker at Rosewood Realty Group

Seth Kessler
Senior Leasing Advisor at SCG Retail

Daniel Lebor
Director, Business Development at TerraCRG

Marko Glavadanovic 
Senior Director at Coldwell Banker Commercial Island Corporate Services

Elizabeth Marchionni
Attorney at Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, LLP

Kira Krimkevich
Associate at Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP

Cindy McLaughlin
CEO at Envelope City

Yisroel Pershin
Associate Director, Investment Sales at GFI Realty Services, LLC

John Terrana
Partner at Forchelli Deegan Terrana

Daniel Hakimian
Associate Broker at Highcap Group

Bonnie Habyan
Executive Vice President, Marketing at Arbor Realty Trust, Inc. - Uniondale Office

Inbar Mitzman
Associate Real Estate Broker at Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty

David Gorelick
Principal at The Gorelick Group

Jessica Stanton
Associate at Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP

Shlomo Gelernter 
Senior Director at Besen & Associates

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