NAI Global named Brian Pinnola of NAI Long Island in Melville, N.Y., to the NAI Global Elite, a group comprised of the organization's top performers and top producers. Pinnola qualified as a Top Producer based on production in 2008. Pinnola began his career 25 years ago with Bagnato Realty Services, the predecessor firm to NAI Long Island, and has specialized in the JFK Airport office and warehouse market working with airlines, custom house brokers, freight forwarders, trucking companies, and all airport businesses. His father Andy Pinnola was a 36 year Port Authority of New York and New Jersey employee in administration at Building 141. In 2001, Joseph Maffia began working on Pinnola's team, and they expanded their scope of services to include airports throughout the United States. Pinnola's team has closed transactions at BWI, CVG, IND, LAX, ORD, SFO and is currently working at PVD. At JFK, they are the exclusive leasing agents for over 35 buildings comprising 650,000 s/f. At the 2009 NAI Global Convention in Las Vegas, Pinnola hosted and inaugurated the NAI Airports and Seaports Group with colleagues from NAI who service the major U.S. international airports. The NAI Airports and Seaports Group will provide seamless worldwide services using local professionals for all airport and seaport related businesses. NAI Global is one of the world's premier network of commercial real estate firms and one of the largest real estate service providers worldwide. Based in Princeton, New Jersey, NAI Global manages a network of 5,000 professionals and 325 offices in 55 countries. NAI professionals complete over $45 billion in transactions annually. Since 1978, NAI Global clients have built their businesses on the power of NAI's expanding network.