By: Gloria Smith, Associate Editor  for  World Liberty TV

Titans of Industry featuring N. Richard Kalikow, Chairman & CEO of Gamma Real Estate

interviewed by his son  Jonathan Kalikow, President of Gamma Real Estate.

N,Richard Kalikow has been in the real estate business for 45 years as both an owner and a lender. With extensive experience, a vast professional network, and a storied family history behind him, Mr. Kalikow is uniquely poised to exhibit the flexible creativity necessary for ever-changing economic and real estate cycles.

Mr. Kalikow has been in the private lending business since 1970. In 1993, he co-founded Max Capital Management Corporation to purchase office properties in New York City, eventually building the company into a full service real estate organization and one of the largest privately held commercial real estate investment firms in New York City. In mid-2002, Mr. Kalikow’s interest in Max Capital was redeemed, and Manchester Real Estate & Construction, LLC was formed to focus on real estate debt and equity simultaneously.

Foreseeing impending real estate problems, in 2006 Mr. Kalikow liquidated his levered real estate holdings. In 2007 Mr. Kalikow was granted an FDIC license, allowing him to form Max Bank Corp and in 2008 he began buying banks in the southeastern United States.

Mr. Kalikow received a B.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1964. Mr. Kalikow currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Rent Stabilization Association, Director of Associated Builders and Owners of Greater New York and as a Class “A” Member of the Real Estate Board of New York. Outside of real estate, he serves on the board of both the Grand Central Partnership and the Institute of Cancer Research, is a Co-Chairman of the Heisman Trophy committee, and is a Permanent Trustee of the Heisman Trust.

Also at the Gala Following four  breakout sessions ,were available to attend while you eat dinner.

The City that Jews Built: How Philanthropists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists became Urban Planners ,Presented by Lila Corwin Berman.

Mixing family and Business in the 18^th century Mediterranean: Mobility, Commerce,  and Father –Son Relations , Presented by Francesca Bregoli, CUNY Queens College.

Victims of Circumstances : Jewish Humor from Yiddish Folktales to the Three Stoogies, presented by  Eddy Portnoy, Max Weinreich Center ,YIVO Institute for Jewish Research at the Center for Jewish History.

Kennedy,Israel, and the Palestinian Refugee Problem, Presented by : Ronald Zweig, New York University.

It was a great Gala , alongside The Breakout Sessions where everyone enjoyed dinner after that there was a huge dessert reception which everybody enjoyed .

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