Independent brokerage firm Ripco Real Estate LLC has promoted Mark Kaplan to president. Kaplan will also continue to serve as the company’s chief operating officer.
“This promotion is earned and well deserved,” said Peter Ripka, co-founder of Ripco along with Todd Cooper. “Mark is highly intelligent, ambitious, analytical, creative and solves problems in fair minded ways. He is a natural born leader and more important than anything, he has become family for us, and we enjoy working with him every single day.”
Kaplan joined Ripco in 2017. Since then, he has increased its market presence from three offices to eight, with locations in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, New Jersey, Long Island, Connecticut, as well as the company’s 2021 launch in Florida, with offices in Miami and Tampa; expanded the brokerage team from 33 to more than 100 brokers; launched investment sales, property management and debt/equity and structured finance divisions and led the company through its first-ever merger and acquisition deal with the recent acquisition of BCD, a premier restaurant real estate brokerage specializing in the development and expansion of food and beverage brands.
Kaplan is also an executive board member of the Long Island Real Estate Group and co-founder of its Next Generation Division, as well as a founder of Sagamore Hill Partners, a retail-focused real estate investment firm. Kaplan is a licensed real estate broker and member of the New York State Bar Association. He graduated with honors from Columbia Law School.
