Herb Agin
CEO
Sutton Edwards
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Herb Agin attended Hunter College and Brooklyn Law School and joined Sutton & Towne, Inc. in 1972 as an industrial specialist. He was promoted to Director of Industrial Properties, and then to Vice President and Manager of the Long Island regional office. In 1979, Agin positioned Sutton & Towne for acquisition by Coldwell Banker, enabling the West Coast real estate franchise to establish commercial presence in the New York metropolitan area. In 1980, Agin was promoted to Resident Manager and Vice President.
In 1982, Agin formed Sutton & Edwards Inc., and as Principal and Managing Partner, established the firm in the Long Island marketplace. Sutton & Edwards achieved the honors of #1 Commercial Real Estate Brokerage on Long Island (1986) and 4th Fastest Growing Company on Long Island (1988). In 2003, CoStar Group ranked Sutton & Edwards among Long Island's Top 5 Brokerage Firms.
In 1990, Agin was elected Chief Executive Officer of Sutton & Edwards, and catalyzed service expansion. Anticipating the globalization of industry, Agin evaluated global service providers and in 1992 secured the Long Island affiliate position within The Commercial Network, now TCN Worldwide. After contributing to the growth of TCN Worldwide as Regional Vice President (1994) and as a member of the Board (1995), he served as Chairman of the Board of for five years. He is now Chairman Emeritus.
In 1991, Herb along with three other brokers, founded the Commercial Industrial Brokers Society (CIBS) to promote education and cooperation between the brokerage, business and development community. He remains today as an adviser to the Board. Additionally, Herb was a board member of the Real Estate Practitioners Institute at C. W. Post and recently helped to inaugurate and is a board member of the Institute of Real Estate at Hofstra University. For his active participation in the business community he has been selected by Long Island Business News for two consecutive years as one of the "Top 100 Most Influential Long Islanders".
Believing that giving back to the community that fostered his career Herb has devoted time and effort to the American Heart Association, Big Brothers/Big Sisters and the Make A Wish foundation.
David Bender
Partner
Apollo Real Estate Advisors
Edward Blumenfeld
President and CEO
Blumenfeld Development Corp.
Al Centrella
Partner
NAI Long Island
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Mr. Albert Centrella Principal, Executive Director at NAI Long Island has over 30 years of diverse commercial real estate experience. In 1977, Mr. Centrella started his career at The Lancsco Corporation in New York. He later joined James Lang Wooton, as Assistant Vice President responsible for landlord and tenant representation. Al Centrella then joined Spiegel Associates as Assistant Director of Leasing, where he was responsible for the leasing of over 2 million SF of office, industrial, and retail properties. In 1994, Mr. Centrella embarked on his own, forming the Schacker Management Company, which later merged with Bagnato Realty. At the turn of the century Bagnato Realty became NAI Long Island, where Mr. Centrella is Principal and Executive Director. His professional affiliations and designations include organizations such as Commercial Industrial Brokers Society (CIBS), International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), Board of Director March of Dimes Long Island Chapter, Member NAI Gold Club, and his most recent appointment; to Chairman of the NAI Global Northeast Retail Council.
Mark Cuthbertson
Councilman
Town of Huntington
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Councilman Mark Cuthbertson was re-elected to a four-year term on the Huntington Town Board in 2005 and has served on the Huntington Town Board since January 1998. Cuthbertson has kept his pledge to put politics aside and part of a bi-partisanship government that has marked the most significant turnaround in local government on Long Island. Throughout his term Mark Cuthbertson has voted to reduce and stabilize taxes in Huntington, working with the other members of the Town Board to place performance over partisanship and public service over politics.
A life long resident of Huntington, after graduating from Walt Whitman High School, he went on to Villanova University (BS - Business Administration) and then to Albany Law School of Union University (JD cum laude). In addition to serving on the Town Board, Mark Cuthbertson is an attorney in private practice in Huntington, NY. The Law Offices of Mark A. Cuthbertson, located in downtown Huntington, specializing in the areas of zoning, real estate, employment, labor, and municipal law.
David Einbinder
First Development Corporation
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David has been involved in real estate since graduating from Hofstra University with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration in 1982. David, co-founded First Development Corporation in 1983, which specializes in shopping center development and chain store brokerage.
David has developed and manages a portfolio which consists of 30 retail properties.
David is married for over 13 years, resides in Old Westbury with his wife Judy and his daughter Carley. He is the co-founder of the LIREG a charitable organization of real estate executives which combines networking with providing local charities with funding for projects such as the Ronald McDonald House, Long Island Hospice, Sunrise Day Camp, and North Shore University Hospital.
Mark Hamer
Harvest Real Estate Services
Laureen Harris
Partner
Cronin, Cronin & Harris, P.C.
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Laureen Harris has over twenty years of experience in the field of tax certiorari law. Ms. Harris graduated from Boston College magna cum laude and received her Juris Doctorate from Quinnipiac College School of Law. She is a partner at Cronin, Cronin & Harris which specializes in Tax Certiorari proceedings. Ms. Harris concentrates on Nassau County properties. Ms. Harris is the past Chairperson of the Nassau County Condemnation Law and Tax Certiorari Committee. Ms. Harris has been a board member of the Association for a Better long Island for 15 years. She is also a member of the Long Island Real Estate Group and the Land Use Institute.
MEMBER OF:
-Nassau County Bar Association, Tax Certiorari and Condemnation Committee and Judiciary Committee
-Suffolk County Bar Association, Tax Certiorari and Condemnation Committee
-New York State Bar Association, Real Property Tax Committee Tax Certiorari and Condemnation Division
-American Bar Association
-New York City Tax Review Bar -New York State Assessors Association
-International Association of Assessors
-Institute of Property Taxation
-Real Estate Tax Review Bar Association
-Association for a Better Long Island
Elizabeth Joyce
Vice President
First American Title Insurance Company of New York
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Liz Joyce joined First American Title Insurance Company of New York, a "Fortune 300" Company as a Sales Representative in 1992. She is currently a Senior Vice President and top sales producer for the Long Island Region, handling many prominent commercial transactions on Long Island and in New York City. Liz is involved in the Long Island community. She is an active member of the Long Island Real Estate Group, The Association for a Better Long Island and the Long Island Builders Intitute. She is also a volunteer for the Nature Conservancy and hs co-chaired the annual fundraising gala for The March of Dimes. Liz is proud to serve on the Board of Directors of the Institute of Real Estate at Hofstra.
Liz is a graduate of Adelphi University. She and her husband Jim have four children, Jimmy, Brian, Kevin and Marissa.
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Gary Lewi
Rubenstein Associates
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Gary Lewi has an extensive background in communications, including work as a broadcast journalist and as a government press secretary on municipal and federal levels. He was Director of Communications for Hempstead Town on Long Island, the nation's largest township, and served as Press Secretary to U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato during the Senator's first term.
With the firm since 1987, he has created innovative public relations and crisis communications strategies for clients involved in issues that include energy, the environment, public policy, health, land use, transportation and crisis management. He is a member of the company's executive management committee and, along with Howard Rubenstein, is considered the company's resident political analyst.
Mr. Lewi has taught at the New York Institute of Technology and has lectured on public relations at Columbia, Stony Brook and Hofstra Universities and Molloy College.
Robert Marks
President
Goodman & Marks
Marc Newman
Partner
Anchin Block and Anchin
Vince Polimeni
Principal
Polimeni Realty
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Vincent Polimeni is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polimeni International, LLC, a full service real estate firm with subsidiary companies specializing in the development, construction, management, brokerage and marketing of prime commercial properties.
During Mr. Polimeni's thirty plus years in the real estate industry, he has developed some of Long Island's premiere commercial real estate ventures, including numerous office projects and shopping centers such as the 250,000 square foot Pavilion in Mineola, New York; the 150,000 square foot MacArthur Plaza in Holbrook, New York; the 380,000 square foot Islandia Center in Islandia, New York; the 410,000 square foot Tollgate Plaza in Bel Air, Maryland and a 150,000 square foot shopping center located in Cape May Court House, New Jersey. For the past eight years Mr. Polimeni has been developing shopping centers throughout Poland. Shopping centers located in Konin, Gniezno and Ostrowiec, totaling over 700,000 square, feet have been completed and four other locations are in various stages of development. Future development projects in Panama, Romania and the Ukraine are being explored.
Among his varied community and industry related positions, Mr. Polimeni serves on the Advisory Board and is Co-Chairman of the Dean's Executive Council for the Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University. He is a founding member, past chairman and past president of the Association for a Better Long Island.
Howard Stein
Partner
Certilman Balin
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Howard M. Stein is managing partner of the Real Estate Practice Group and concentrates on matters related to real property acquisitions, leasing, real estate finance and loan workouts. He is an Adjunct Professor of Real Estate Law at Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, where he is Chairman of the School’s Board of Governors.
In what could be the largest price paid for a land sale on Long Island, Mr. Stein recently handled the sale of the Melville “pumpkin farm” to Canon USA for its North American Headquarters, playing a major role in resolving a legal dispute that will keep the Fortune 500 Company on Long Island.
He is a board member of Hope for Youth, Inc. and the Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center. Mr. Stein was the recipient of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Long Island Presidential Award at its 2000 Gala, and he was the 2007 recipient of the Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award from Long Island Cares, Inc.
Mr. Stein serves on the Advisory Boards of both Chicago Title Insurance Company and First American Title Insurance Company. He has lectured at the Nassau Academy of Law, the Suffolk County Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Queens County Bar Association on a variety of Real Estate related topics.
Mr. Stein is a 1975 graduate of the University of Rochester and earned his law degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1978.
Philip Wachtler
Partner
Wachtler Knopf Equities
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Philip Wachtler is a founder and principal of Wachtler Knopf Equities LLC, of Farmingdale, one of the largest independent office building owners / managers on Long Island. Wachtler currently represents the ownership of a portfolio of 10 office buildings totaling 579,000 square feet in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Since founding WKE in 2005, Wachtler has assumed an active and influential role in the real estate community on Long Island. In addition to IRE, He is a board member of the Long Island Real Estate Group and holds associate membership in the Commercial Industrial Brokers Society.
Prior to establishing WKE, Wachtler served as Director of Leasing and Development for the Tilles Investment Company, overseeing 2.1 million square feet of commercial space. He joined CLK/Houlihan Parnes as a Senior Vice President after the partnership purchased the Tilles portfolio in 2005. He was recognized as one of the 40 most influential business people under the age of 40 for 2002 by the Long Island Business News.
Wachtler is a graduate of Skidmore College and the Gemological Institute of America in New York. He worked as gemologist for the Walker Jewelry Co. in Manhattan before joining Sterling/Carl Marks Capital Inc., a small business investment company. He joined Tilles in 2000. Philip is also active in the Licensing of Little League Baseball products internationally with SloaneVision in New York
A former member of the Village of Sands Point Zoning Board of Appeals, Wachtler is now a resident of Upper Brookville, where he lives with his wife, Robin and their three children. He serves on the board of directors of the Tilles Center for the Arts and is an associate trustee of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.
Ben Weinstock
Partner
Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C.
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Benjamin Weinstock is co-chair of the Real Estate Department of Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C. in Uniondale, New York, where he concentrates on real estate law. Mr. Weinstock received his law degree (cum laude) in 1978 from Brooklyn Law School. He is the Secretary of the New York State Real Estate Board and a frequent lecturer for continuing legal education programs sponsored by the New York State Bar Association and several other CLE providers. Mr. Weinstock is a Special Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School and is a member of the First American Title Insurance Company of New York Advisory Board. He is the author of the chapter on Lease Guaranties in the New York State Bar Association's desk book on Commercial Leasing and has published numerous legal articles. Mr. Weinstock also serves as Deputy Mayor of the Village of Cedarhurst, where he resides.
Matthew B. Whalen
Senior Development Director
Avalon Bay Communities
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Matthew B. Whalen rejoined AvalonBay in 2003 as Vice president of Development for the Long Island territory. He is responsible for leading the development and acquisition activity in the dynamic Long Island real estate market. He works out of the AvalonBay office in Melville, NY. Prior to rejoining AvalonBay, Matt was Director for the Northeast Region for Cogent Communications, an optical networking company bringing fiber optics to office buildings in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. He was responsible for leading a team of professionals to build Cogent’s nationwide network of multi-tenant office buildings and was also responsible for the daily operation of Cogent’s New York office.
Prior to Cogent, Matt was a Senior Director at AvalonBay responsible for acquisitions and development in the New York region in 1999 and 2000.
In 1998, Matt was Vice President of Homestead Village; a NYSE extended stay hotel company and subsidiary of Security Capital Group. While there, Matt was responsible for the Urban Development program consisting of high-rise projects in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic totaling over $400 million. In 1995, Matt was Vice President of Security Capital Group in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. responsible for acquisitions and development for the eastern region. Prior to Security Capital Group, Matt was Vice President of Crimson Partners of Herndon, Virginia, a private real estate investment company acquiring and developing commercial properties. He previously worked for Toll Brothers; a NYSE residential developer based in Philadelphia.
Matt is a 1988 graduate of Princeton University where he received a B.A. in History. Matt was the sole captain of the 1987 Princeton varsity football team and subsequently captained the United States Rugby team on two tours in 1998 and 1999.
In 2006, Matt was elected to the Long Island Builders Institute’s Board of Directors for a two-year term and began serving as Treasurer in 2007. He is a Board Member of the Institute of Real Estate at Hofstra and he also belongs to the Executive Board of both the Long Island Real Estate Group and the Real Estate Practitioners Institute. Matt is a member of the Long Island Association and serves on their Next Generation Housing Committee. He is also an active member of both the Association for a Better Long Island and Action Long Island. Matt received the Long Island Business News’ annual award for one of Long Island's 40 rising stars under the age of 40 in 2004. The awards are established to recognize those making substantial contributions to the Long Island Business community. Matt is very active in the community and most recently participated in Habitat for Humanity’s 2006 Long Island Builders Blitz where AvalonBay was involved in the effort that built five homes in five days. Matt, his wife and two children live in Garden City, Long Island.
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