Siegel named Man of Year

Real Estate Weekly, Jan 19, 1994

Stephen B. Siegel, president of the Edward S. Gordon Company, Inc. (ESG) and a pioneering force in the real estate industry for more than 30 years, was honored with the prestigious Senior Man of the Year Award by the Young Men's/Women's Real Estate Association of New York, Inc. at a luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Joseph McLuskey, chairman of the organization, made the announcement.

The organization, founded in 1948, is dedicated to exploring and promoting policies that benefit the real estate industry, and fostering greater understanding, knowledge and interaction among its members. Each year, it recognizes a lifetime of industry achievement through its Senior Man of the Year Award (created in 1981), as well as young professionals who have made significant contributions to the industry through its Young Man of the Year Award (created in 1963).

The awards have honored some of real estate's most notable figures. Past ESG recipients include Edward S. Gordon, chairman (Young Man of the Year in 1975); Raymond O'Keefe, executive director, (Young in 1979, Senior in 1986); and Mitchell Rudin, senior managing director, (Young Man of the Year in 1992).

Siegel, an industry veteran, has reached acclaim as a broker, developer and management executive. Among other accomplishments, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., one of the nation's largest brokerage firms, and as president of Chubb Realty Inc., a leading national development firm, before serving at the helm of ESG.

In that capacity, he presides over one of the largest firms in the commercial real estate industry. A leader in office and retail brokerage, corporate consulting, asset management and property management, among other services, ESG maintains offices in Manhattan, Saddle Brook, NJ, White Plains, NY, and Norwalk, CT. ESG provides national real estate services through its affiliate, Gordon Advisors.

Throughout his career, Siegel has represented a prominent list of clients, including Chubb Corporation; Ernst & Young; First National Bank of Chicago; Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue and Simpson, Thather & Bartlett.

In addition to his professional triumphs, Siegel is recognized for his civic and philanthropic endeavors both in New York and nationally. He is the general chairman of the Association for the Help of Retarded Children (AHRC); a member of the executive committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a member of the board of directors of both the Greater New York Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the Cardoza School of Law of the Yeshiva University, and a trustee of the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine.