180 of the nation’s biggest real estate power players filled the Park Hyatt for Commercial Obeserver’s 11th Annual Power Gala, a celebration of the publication’s 2018 Power 50 in finance and Power 100 lists.
Chad Tredway of JP Morgan Chase took the stage to announce the Rising Star Award. “To all of you who are clients,thank you. For those who are thinking about being clients, you can meet me at the martini bar,” Tredway joked before announcing the Kaufman Organization’s Michael Kazmierski as the Rising Star.
In 2016, Kazmierski, (then 33 years old) became the youngest principal employee in the Kaufman Organization’s century-long history to be elevated to principal and director of acquisitions of Kaufman New Ventures, working directly underneath industry veteran Frederic Leffel, who is the president of the new ventures division.
“I was very lucky at an early age to find a passion in real estate,” the MIT graduate told the crowd, as the company’s president Steven Kaufman, stood proudly front and center. “I grew up outside of Detroit, and I’m the son of a father who was in the automotive manufacturing business. But, I made my way to New York eight years ago, and it provided an arena for me to compete at the highest level with and against some of the finest and most talented real estate professionals in the industry.”
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