Shown (from left) are: Ryan and CIBS president David Chinitz.

Melville, NY The Commercial Industrial Brokers Society (CIBS) of Long Island honored Desmond Ryan, executive director of the Association for a Better Long Island (ABLI), with its annual Achievement Award. The ABLI, based in Hauppauge, is a real estate developers group serving the region.

The award, presented at the CIBS annual meeting at the Fox Hollow Inn, on October 26^th, recognizes Ryan’s 25 years of assisting with the activities of the real estate brokers group, including his work on two annual events, the annual Long Island Real Estate Dinner and the annual holiday party, that bring together Long Island developers and commercial real estate brokers.

“Des’ efforts over the 25 years since CIBS’ founding have been instrumental in helping our organization to thrive, grow, and provide a voice for the commercial brokerage community,” said CIBS’ president David Chinitz.

Ryan, earlier this year, announced that he would step back from his lobbying activities on behalf of ABLI. Prior to joining ABLI, Ryan enjoyed a lengthy professional tenure as a government affairs advocate for a broad range of corporate, health, education, and energy clients, Grumman Aerospace where he worked on public affairs issues in Washington, D.C. and Albany, N.Y. During the 1980’s, he also served as director of government affairs for the Long Island association after working for the Office of the New York State assembly speaker. He also was on the staff of the Office of the Suffolk County Executive.

A graduate of Stony Brook University, Ryan is married with two children and a resident of St. James.

CIBS was formed in 1992 out of the shared belief among the region’s leading brokers that the region needed a unified voice to advocate on behalf of professionalism, ethics and industry cohesion.  Today, CIBS is a leading voice and advocate for commercial development in the Long Island market.  Since its formation, CIBS has helped upgrade the industry by offering hundreds of educational programs, seminars and presentations; advocated professional standards and offered grievance resolution; provided informal mentoring relationships; raised tens of thousands of dollars for local charities; and created social settings in which colleagues have become friends, and competitors respected peers.