Speakers

Josh Gelfman ’06 has worked at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the City’s agency charged with stimulating economic growth in all five boroughs. As a project manager, Mr. Gelfman has guided work on projects in the Hunt’s Point Food Distribution Center and, more recently, real estate development projects in Brooklyn, including Coney Island, the BAM Cultural District in Fort Greene, and Bush Terminal in Sunset Park. While in graduate school for City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, he worked for the University’s Real Estate Services group, focusing on leveraging University assets to facilitate community development initiatives in Philadelphia. Prior to his work at Penn, Mr. Gelfman spent four years in business development for two Silicon Alley start-ups in New York and two years working in Amsterdam in the floral trade. In addition to a Masters degree in City and Regional Planning, Mr. Gelfman has an MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree from Brown University.


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