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New York, Ny, Us

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.• Renovated and profitably flipped 12 residential properties, largely single family, in NY and NJ.

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 overseeing vendors and sales reps. • 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!. • Leveraged currency exchange relationship with Japan through successful currency hedging.

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