2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Nicole De Bare, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Recent goal and impact:  I’ve been schooled in the New York condominium world. For years I’ve poured over AG regulations, and I’ve been in the trenches with major NYC condo developments. But I’ve always been curious about other aspects of a deal — financing, leases, JV negotiations, and guarantees —

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Michael Kazmierski, Kaufman Investments / Kaufman Organization

Recent goal and impact:  Michael Kazmierski is currently spearheading the redevelopment of One NoMad which is one of the only high-end commercial projects underway in the submarket. The property is situated at the NoMad Gateway which is the nexus between the emergence of Penn Station and the NoMad submarket. One NoMad is being delivered as a creative hub for the growing NYC content creation

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Gregory Kalnitsky, Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP

Recent goal and impact:  A recent goal that I achieved is transitioning from a career in government to my current role. While I practiced zoning and land use in the public sector, private sector work is different. In zoning and land use matters, it is often the case that the municipality has all of the leverage. It is a big change to go from serving a municipality to serving individual clients.

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Ben Clark, EBI Consulting

Recent goal and impact:  I led a company-wide initiative to unify our business development strategy across industry, service lines and regions. By leveraging data and analytics, we identified key growth areas, aligned sales efforts,

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Brian Troast, Shawmut Design and Construction

Recent goal and impact:  I joined Shawmut in 2024 to work with a talented team delivering large, complex projects across healthcare, commercial, education, hospitalit

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Derek Venne, conceptcsi

Recent goal and impact:  A recent goal we achieved was increasing our projected growth rate by improving our overall win rate on RFP’s. Leadership, the estimating team, and I were able to overhaul our process of customer and contractor engagement, including overhauling our estimating process.

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Jennifer Stewart, IBM

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2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: AnnMarie O’Brien, Curasi Realty, Inc.

Recent goal and impact:  We needed to properly assist commercial clients, but achieving this required the right leadership, someone with dedication to make it a success. AnnMarie O’Brien requested a meeting with us. She stepped forward with an outstanding business plan that brought this goal to life. Her vision, deep understanding of the commercial market,

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Ami Eller, GPARENCY

Recent goal and impact: In March, my team and I more than doubled our transaction volume and success rate, closing over $250 million across 25+ deals. Our unique, revolutionary process guarantees commercial real estate owners the best financing available in the market for a flat fee of $4,500.

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Jamie Zhang, Crystal Window & Door Systems

Recent goal and impact: To strengthen our supply chain resilience in response to pandemic, tariff, and other challenges, I secured multiple new sources for critical materials we use in manufacturing. This reduces dependency on single vendors and minimizes disruptions. I implemented blanket orders