
December 26, 2011 -
Upstate New York
Name: Peter Gannon
Title: President
Company: Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership
Location: Watervliet Arsenal
Birthplace: Hudson, N.Y.
Family: Wife, Lauren
College: St. Rose, BA - RPI, MBA
First job outside of real estate: Communications services for the State Assembly
First job in real estate or allied field: Vice President at the ABTP
What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? Exclusive site developer at the historic Watervliet Arsenal; In the future we will continue to reinvent ways to utilize Army facilities to play a role in the regional economy.
Hobbies: Golf, gadgets, traveling
Favorite book: "Lapham Rising," Roger Rosenblatt
Favorite movie: "The Departed"
Persons you admire most (outside of family): Anyone who hears the rules and says, "Okay, let's do it in a completely different way."
Keys to success: Handwritten thank you notes
If you had to choose another vocation what would it be? Serial entrepreneur