Stephen Cohen Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Bellingham, WA, US

Prospect, Kentucky, US

Mahwah, New Jersey, US

Real Estate Development and Construction

• Buy and sell investment and commercial property.
• Conceived of, co-founded, and advise new division, Greenlight Properties, that buys undeveloped property, secures local development approval, and sells value-added property to developers.
• Identify and bring in investors to Greenlight Properties, seeking an average of $500,000 per property.

• Invest in residential rental real estate properties, from single family homes and townhomes to multi-unit buildings and condos.
• Co-founded Stratton Residential in 2019, a foreclosure relief, property investment, renovation and resale business.
• Partnered with realtor beginning in 2014 to rehab and resell single and multi-unit residential properties in Bergen County, NJ.
• Collaborated with partner to rehab multi-unit rental properties in suburban metro-NYC communities for more than a decade.
• Met market need for housing of nurses in Nassau County by renting multi-unit building to hospital to provide housing for its nursing staff.
• Retain tenants in market rate properties for multiple years through careful property management.

Maintained membership seat on New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).Successful trader in oil and gas futures and S&P Index futures.

• Bought business and brand name of personal care, health & beauty company to capitalize on existing distribution system for new products. Oversaw sales, distribution, manufacturing, finance and operations, including.
• Developed new product, Nik+Aid, the first roll-on styptic device, after identifying market opportunity for different delivery mechanism and more skin-friendly formulation.
• Gained distribution of Nik+Aid in US and Canada, including being carried at Walmart, generating $300,000 in annual sales.
• Won Design Award for Nik+Aid package from NACD (National Association of Container Distributors) in 1997.
• Secured distribution of SpongeOla, a line of bacteria-resistant body sponges made in Japan, at Walgreen’s and independent higher-end pharmacies such as Bigelow’s and Zitomer’s in NYC.
• Achieved distribution of third product line, System 2 (a dual shampoo and conditioner bottle carrier), at the Container Store and Organize It!.

• Executed floor orders of heating oil and crude oil futures in NYMEX pits.
• Instrumental in growing Atkin’s floor brokerage from start-up to many thousands of contracts daily.
• Built Atkin into one of NYMEX’s premier floor brokerage firms in both volume and quality of execution.

Education record

Textile Design

Marketing & Advertising