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2019 Ones to Watch: Anthony Celifarco, Prime Real Estate Advisors
April 16, 2019
What do you consider to be your greatest professional accomplishment in the past 12 months?
Starting my own investment sales team, Prime Real Estate Advisors. It was always my goal to start my own firm, and to see it materialize so quickly is absolutely amazing.
2019 Ones to Watch: Tom Reynolds, Bestreich Realty Group, LLC
April 16, 2019
Who or what do you attribute to your success?
Professionally, I attribute my success to my business partner, who happens to be my brother, Steve Reynolds and my mentor, Derek Bestreich. They have given me a tremendous amount of support and time to teach me the business.
2019 Ones to Watch: Jeremy Honig, Rivkin Radler LLP
April 16, 2019
If you have a mentor, who is it and how have they influenced your personal & professional growth?
I am lucky to have had many mentors in my career. My first mentors were my grandfather and my uncle who taught me that being successful and kind are not mutually exclusive. Edward Jaffe and Burton Ross gave me my first opportunity in the
2019 Ones to Watch: Jake Gluck, Juniper Capital Group
April 16, 2019
What do you consider to be your greatest professional accomplishment in the past 12 months?
Over the last year, I closed about $80 million in loans. One of the most challenging deals involved a $5 million loan coming due on a tough property where I tapped into our extensive network and found the perfect lender for
2019 Ones to Watch: Jonathan Ruiz, Urbahn Architects
April 16, 2019
What do you consider to be your greatest professional accomplishment in the past 12 months?
In the past 12 months, with great satisfaction, I saw the completion of my latest project: the two-building, seven-story, 241-unit, 151,000 s/f Tides North Phase I rental residential development within the Arverne By the Sea waterfront community in
2019 Ones to Watch: Matthew Yandoli, AKF Group
April 16, 2019
Who or what do you attribute to your success?
I attribute a lot my success to my parents and my upbringing. They always emphasized the importance of education with the combination of diligence and integrity. My wife and I have been together for over 16 years and she has always been there…
2019 Ones to Watch: Erika Reuter, HOK
April 16, 2019
What do you consider to be your greatest professional accomplishment in the past 12 months?
I was the project manager for the recently completed 700,000 s/f WPP Offices at 3 World Trade Center. It was the most complex project I’ve managed in my career to date. WPP, a creative transformation company, co-located 4,000 employees from
2019 Ones to Watch: Malcolm Punch, Total Safety
April 16, 2019
Who or what do you attribute to your success?
I attribute my success to my parents Richard and Ursulina Punch. They instilled in me the importance of education and hard work. I was lucky to have these two individuals as an example to model my life after. Both of my parents grew up extremely poor and through education were able to
2019 Ones to Watch: Joe Recanatini, CNY
April 16, 2019
Who or what do you attribute to your success?
I’ve had the pleasure of working with some really smart and trusting senior superintendents/managers/executives over my career. They provided me with an enormous amount of training and lessons that prepared me for the tasks and
2019 Ones to Watch: Kevin Peterman, Key Civil Engineering
April 16, 2019
What advice can you offer to someone who is interested in a career in your industry?
My father once said: “Take the best part of every person around you. Take their knowledge, their problem solving, their intuition, and absorb all you can. Use these to evolve who you are, as a person and as an engineer.” An important lesson…
2019 Ones to Watch: Erin Kiernan, Marks Paneth LLP
April 16, 2019
Who or what do you attribute to your success?
I attribute my success to my parents, who taught my three siblings and I the importance of a strong work ethic. In addition to being hardworking, both of my parents are also very creative– another trait I am…
2019 Ones to Watch:Daniel Berman, Kramer Levin
April 16, 2019
Who or what do you attribute to your success?
When I originally decided to go to law school and subsequently joined Kramer Levin to specialize in real estate, I wasn’t looking at where I would be when I graduated or two years into the job. Instead, I tried to picture my career in…
2019 Ones to Watch: Leslie Keidan, Cresa
April 16, 2019
What advice can you offer to someone who is interested in a career in your industry?
First, to get started have some savings in the bank and budget well because these deals take time and you want to make sure you can cover your expenses while building your portfolio. Be organized, confident and resilient because you will…
2019 Ones to Watch: David Wilkes, Wilkes Law Group, PLLC
April 16, 2019
What advice can you offer to someone who is interested in a career in your industry?
This is a field in which you must master highly technical rules and principles over a period of years, and also have the ability to negotiate deals with authority. Personality counts for more than you’d imagine. Your adversary must also know…
2019 Ones to Watch: Donal Flaherty, Bestreich Realty Group, LLC
April 16, 2019
What do you consider to be your greatest professional accomplishment in the past 12 months?
My greatest accomplishment in the past 12 months was being named generator of the year and being part of selling 331 Keap St. for $15.5 million.
2019 Ones to Watch: John Barrett, RM Friedland
April 16, 2019
What do you consider to be your greatest professional accomplishment in the past 12 months?
Starting the Investment Sales Division at RM Friedland and being able to bring in such strong talented brokers. RM Friedland has a nearly 50-year track record in sales and leasing of industrial and retail and office property types.
2019 Ones to Watch: Eugene Chernyak, CNY
April 16, 2019
Who or what do you attribute to your success?
Being proactive. In most work environments, people are there to just “do their jobs” and nothing more. How often does one hear at a work place, “Oh, that’s not my job, so-and-so should do it.”
2019 Ones to Watch: Angelo Skartsiaris, C3S CoRE Consulting, Inc.
April 16, 2019
What do you consider to be your greatest professional accomplishment in the past 12 months?
Obtaining my Professional Engineer license in the state of New York, and establishing C3S CoRE Consulting, Inc. with my partners.
2019 Ones to Watch: Jacob Namdar, Klosed Properties
April 16, 2019
What do you consider to be your greatest professional accomplishment in the past 12 months?
During a difficult time in the market, we were able to close on several transactions in the Bronx and Harlem.
2019 Ones to Watch: Benjamin Williams, Rosenberg & Estis, P.C.
April 16, 2019
What do you consider to be your greatest professional accomplishment in the past 12 months?
My greatest professional accomplishment in the past year is joining one of the largest (and best) NYC real estate law firms as a member, and starting their Property Tax Department. In just four months, we’ve