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

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