As President of BEDC, a thirty-one year old not for profit corporation dedicated to community and business development and job creation in Brooklyn, Ms. Bartolomeo directs a staff which provides services in the areas of small business lending, commercial and retail development, entrepreneurship, commercial revitalization and numerous other activities. BEDC also directs the Initiative for a Competitive Brooklyn (ICB), a project that seeks to create sustainable jobs for Brooklyn’s residents by facilitating the growth and expansion of the borough’s private sector employers. In 2008, BEDC also assumed Management of the historic Moore Street Retail Market in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Ofer Cohen is a seasoned executive with 14 years of sales, marketing and entrepreneurial management experience. Ofer founded TerraCRG during the first quarter of 2008, after serving as Director of Sales at Massey Knakal Realty Services, one of the leading investment sales firms in New York City. His vision for TerraCRG was to create a new type of brokerage and advisory firm, one that efficiently responds to the Brooklyn Commercial Real Estate market and its participants, during all stages of the market cycle. The firm occupies newly redeveloped office space across from the Atlantic Yards.

TerraCRG was is a boutique commercial brokerage and advisory firm focused primarily on the Brooklyn borough and vicinity. More…

Chris Havens founded Creative Real Estate Group LLP in June 2007 and currently represents 150,000 square feet of loft space. He brings a near 30-year background in real estate, housing and land use.

In 2002, Mr. Havens joined Two Trees Management Co. in DUMBO as Director of Leasing & Marketing for their 1.4 million square foot commercial portfolio. Completing over one hundred new leases while managing the re-positioning of the former industrial and craft space into office use, Haves successfully created the DUMBO office marketing, realizing the Walentas’ vision.

Timothy D. King joined partners, Brian Leary and Jim Lang, to form CPEX Real Estate in 2008. Tim manages the firm’s business line divisions and business development. He has been involved in Real Estate operations, sales and leasing for forty years. During that time, he has hired, trained and managed several hundred agents.

Prior to forming CPEX Real Estate, Tim was a Partner with Massey Knakal Realty Services. He joined MKRS in 2002 and opened the firm’s Brooklyn office as its first Managing Partner. After serving as the Managing Partner of the Brooklyn office, Tim later became MKRS’S first Chief Operating Officer. During his tenure, the firm’s annual revenue increased dramatically and its staff grew from 30 to 200, with 75 staff members in Brooklyn alone.

Lori Raphael is Director of Real Estate and Development at the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce where she promotes the business interests of Brooklyn’s real estate industry. She has served as Executive Director of the Flatbush-Nostrand Junction Business Improvement District, working with property owners, developers and retailers on retail revitalization and promotion of the commercial corridor. Prior, Lori was Vice President for Asset Management at the NYC Economic Development Corporation, where she was responsible for leasing and lease administration of a large and diverse portfolio of City-owned commercial real estate. Lori has also served as Deputy Agency Chief Contracting Officer at the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, managing compliance and contracting programs.