Leonard Primack Secretary NYS Commercial Association of Realtors
January 27, 2009 - Long Island
Name: Leonard Primack
Title: President
Company: Leonard Primack Associates, Ltd.
Location: 133 Parkway Dr. North, Commack, NY 11725
Birthplace and year: Brooklyn, N.Y., 1936
Family: Wife, Sandra; 2 married sons: Jonathan and Adam; and 3 grandchildren
College: CCNY, BA; New York University, MBA
First job outside of real estate: Managed pension plan investments at Chase
Manhattan Bank.
First job in real estate or allied field: I formed my own firm
What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? We are commercial/industrial mortgage brokers. We now arrange financing nationwide although our focus is on Long Island and the tri-state area. We look forward to arranging financing in the international field.
Hobbies: Contemporary history
Favorite book: "Gulag Archipelago" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Favorite movie: "Dr. Zhivago"
Person you admire most (outside of family): George Washington. He had the opportunity to make himself King. Instead, he presided over a fledgling democracy that has withstood the test of time.
Keys to success: Be knowledgeable and keep the momentum going.
If you had to choose another vocation what would it be? History professor