Batista named associate board member of CIBS Long Island

Syosset, NY Greg Batista has been appointed an associate board member of the Commercial Industrial Brokers Society of Long Island (CIBS).  

Batista, a broker  in the Jericho office of Ripco Real Estate LLC since 2015, previously was a vice president of Sabre Real Estate Group, a vice president at Pliskin Realty & Development and an acquisition specialist with Ashkenazy Acquisitions Corp.

A Long Island native, Batista is a 2005 graduate of Siena College, where he received a bachelor of science degree in Marketing and Management and where he played Division I baseball. 

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.