BIO - For the past three decades, my professional career on Long Island has been centered in both the hospitality business and the financial industry. For fifteen years, between 1992-2007, I developed a strong financial background as a Financial Planner for Smith Barney, building an investment business composed of high net worth, retail clients. This career allowed me to parlay my financial skills into managing and operating mega sized, high-end, high volume, profitable restaurants beginning in 2007. High volume restaurants, typically with sizeable seating capacities are tricky business models which employ approximately one hundred people and generate gross revenues exceeding $10 million dollars. They are a veritable social arena of human behavior and dynamism that require operational, financial, managerial and social acumen. Between 2007-2015, my employment with the Poll Hospitality Group on Long Island, NY led me to open TOKU Modern Asian restaurant in Manhasset, and Bar Frites Bistro in Roslyn Heights, NY as the General Manager. Here, I refined my professional, operational, and managerial skills working with a talented team of hospitality professionals and owners to bring both establishments into the forefront of the Long Island restaurant scene. Hired as General Manager by several other hospitality groups in the subsequent years, I rounded out my teambuilding and managerial skills by operating various culinary venues including, steak house, authentic Italian, nouveau cuisine, a proof-of-concept lobster fast food chain, ultimately settling in at RARE650 Steak House by Anthony Scotto Restaurants in 2019. For the past 5 1/2 years, I'm the General Manager at RARE650 Prime Steak & Sushi as the General Manager. Through Covid in 2020 and to date, my team has executed and elevated their game under my direction, making this restaurant establishment a first-class hospitality operation, with a repeat clientele, praiseworthy social media reviews, delicious quality food and a profitable business model. I credit my professional success over these past three decades with the personal knowledge, experience and the wisdom needed to actively recruit, train, and elevate our employees with a unique skill set of business leadership techniques, humility, personal gratitude, and a clear corporate vision.