January 27, 2009 -
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Name: John Pavone, Jr.
Title: Vice President
Company: CB Richard Ellis, Inc.
Location: 200 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y.
Place of birth and year: Flushing, N.Y. 1975
Family: Wife Marion, Mother & Father John & Rosalie, Sister Jessica
College: Loyola College in Maryland
First job unrelated to your current field: Assistant to Business and Legal Affairs for Universal Musical Group
First job in current field: Summer Helper, Jack Resnick & Sons, Inc.
What do you do now and what are your plans for the future? Continue my career as a real estate professional in the best firm and become a prominent broker in the industry; be able to give back to the community
Hobbies: Skiing, Running (completed three marathons), squash, writing, music, movies, spoiling dear friends' children
Favorite novel: "Sun Also Rises,"Hemingway; "The Stranger," Camus; "The Fountainhead," Rand; "Sidhartha," Hess; "Jesus's Son," Johnson
Keys to success: Capitalism through objectivist thought
Person(s) you most admire (outside of family): Joe Strummer and Joe Namath
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Extreme skier and/or fiction writer