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Posted: February 7, 2011
Michelle Marie Zere, Zere Real Estate Services
Michelle Marie Zere
Executive Vice President
Zere Real Estate Services
Years in the field: 26 Years
2127 Lakeland Avenue, Suite 2, Ronkonkoma, NY 11779
631-467-4300 X212
[email protected]
www.zere.com
CIBS: Commercial Industrial Brokers Society, LIMBA: Long Island Metro Business Action
Who has been the strongest influence on your career?
Marie Zere, president and founder of Zere Real Estate Services, the original apprentice. Her energy and can do attitude is unsurpassed. I have been working with my mother, Marie since I was 11 years old at her first office in Great Neck. The office was the size of a broom closet and I do remember her wiping the streets doing deals while other competitive offices were just scratching their heads in disbelief. She would leave long stem red roses for all of her prospective clients and smile. Always friendly and nice, she was a welcome surprise in to the male-dominated cut-throat world of commercial real estate. She always taught me that knowledge of properties is invaluable. Her quick wit and creativity still astonishes me in the boardroom while putting complicated projects together.
Terry Townsend: Former founder and publisher of The Long Island Business News. She taught me the value of being a proficient writer and always to say thank-you, even for the smallest of gestures. She is a lady through and through and I have always valued her advice and friendship.
Rupert Murdoch: International media mogul, News Corp., Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Twentieth Century Fox, Fox News, Fox 5, London Times, Sky News etc. His no nonsense business style and acumen has prepared me for the toughest of corporate negotiations, meeting deadlines and thinking out of the box.
He used to catch me in my office early in the morning or late at night and sit and talk to me. He changed the world of media, made swift decisions, and always has been forward thinking. He kept me on board after firing hundreds of others at the New York Post all because I held the elevator for him, made a few jokes and gave him my seat in the company cafeteria while the unions shunned him. Little did they know he would become the most important figure in media on the planet.
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