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

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Gary Davies, CBRE

Recent goal and impact: Throughout my career, my focus has always been on finding the right partners. By developing these key relationships, we’ve built a team focused solely on tenant representation for financial firms. In today’s very dynamic market, it takes a team with a diverse skill set to navigate the real estate landscape

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Lee Brodsky, BEB Capital

Recent goal and impact:  I recently helped spearhead the launch of BEB Work, a newly designed coworking space located at BEB Capital’s headquarters. The launch comes on the heels of our $4 million investment in 2024 to create a dynamic workplace ecosystem, which incorporated a custom mural, fitness center, and shuttle service for tenants.

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Joe Yacobellis, Mojo Stumer Associates

Recent goal and impact: At Mojo Stumer, we’re committed to elevating Long Island’s architectural landscape through thoughtful, modern design. 301 Warner, our newly completed mixed-use project in Roslyn Station, revitalizes the area with retail, office, and residential spaces. Similarly, our Floral Park project blends

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Rachel-Anne Scelfo, Farrell Fritz

Turning problems into opportunities:  In land use and zoning, there are often challenges, but our job as attorneys and strategic planners is to turn them into opportunities. When a client proposes a multifamily, mixed-use development to address housing needs, we need to coalesce the community, developers, local government, and stakeholders to gain support.

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Leo Jacobs, Jacobs P.C.

Recent goal and impact: I set out to position Jacobs P.C. as the go-to firm for clients facing complex financial distress and we delivered. We have restructured over $5 billion in real estate debt and equity, while maintaining a boutique model. The impact? We have proven that strategic agility and elite legal work

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Simon Power, M.C. Electrical NY

Recent goal and impact:  M.C. Electrical has grown into a leading regional electrical contractor employing 230 field professionals and support staff. In order to efficiently manage all aspects of the firm’s operations, I led the development and implementation of a highly customized, Smartsheet enterprise management software system that allows

2025 Ones To Watch - Industry Leaders: Alexander Zakharin, Nest Seekers International

Recent goal and impact: A recent goal I achieved was building a team of six real estate agents from the ground up. Starting with no listings, we quickly established a presence by securing new exclusive properties and delivering results for our clients. This not only expanded our firm’s footprint in the competitiv