Profile: Robin Fisher, YM/WREA Vice Chairman
March 19, 2010 - Brokerage
Name: Robin Fisher
Title: Director
Company: Newmark Knight Frank
Location: 125 Park Ave., New York, N.Y.
Birthplace and date: Manhattan, Oct. 25, 1981
Family: Yale, Meg, Doug, Caroline, Alex, Emma, Kaelyn and Susie
College: Cornell University, College of Arts & Sciences
First job outside of real estate: Municipal bond trading
First job in real estate or allied field: Cushman & Wakefield research
What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? Corporate real estate leasing and portfolio management
Hobbies: Travel, snow shoe hiking, reading
Favorite book: "Immortality"
Favorite movie: "When Harry Met Sally"
Person you admire most (outside of family): Gretchen Shugart, CEO
Keys to success: Focus, following up and a good sense of humor
If you had to choose another vocation what would it be? Advertising