Michael's breadth of skill, professionalism, insight, and open door policy characterize his work with Chief Executive Officer Bess Freedman and President Hall F. Willkie, while keeping sales and administrative systems finely tuned to the firm's most valuable resource, its top sales, administrative, executive and creative teams.
Michael’s proficiencies in the management of institutional growth and change have helped raise production standards and grow success in business, arts, and education, and most recently as a top, trusted, professional New York City residential real estate administrator with versatility and breadth of vision and resources.
Michael has deep creative management experience servicing relationships, projects and organizations in the public and private, profit and not-for-profit sectors. Michael’s executive management career has featured an exceptionally broad range highlighted by important initiative; successful and prolific innovation; team building; teaching and learning; an expanding versatility of experiences and skills; improved systems, organizations and profits; and confidence and trust in creative values.
As Chief Administrator, he services the residential sales company of Brown Harris Stevens, one of the most prominent privately owned real estate service firms in the world. Established in 1873, BHS has historically dominated the luxury, high-end market. With more than 2,300 agents across the East Coast, the company oversees the sale of marquee properties worldwide from its headquarters in New York City and its offices throughout Connecticut, Hudson Valley, New Jersey, the Hamptons, Palm Beach, and Miami.
He was appointed by President Hall F. Willkie, after serving ten years as Director of Information and three years as Executive Director, to support business advantages in technology, marketing, communications, accounting, research and personnel.
Michael's breadth of skill, professionalism, insight, and open door policy characterize his work with Chief Executive Officer Bess Freedman and President Willkie, while keeping sales and administrative systems finely tuned to the firm's most valuable resource, its top sales, administrative, executive and creative teams.
In his third decade with Brown Harris Stevens, Michael’s versatility and problem-solving, organizational drive and institutional experience and reach, prove valuable more than ever in the vision and administration of continuous improvement and important change.
Michael served from 1977 to 1996 as Director of Education, Media, Technology and General Manager for Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) whose legendary collaborations with artists from every creative discipline yielded an unparalleled body of American dance, music, and visual art.
Prior to that, Michael had sole full-charge responsibility for student loans funds bookkeeping at the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University, the oldest institution of higher education in New York.
Michael was born in Manhattan, educated in Manhasset Public Schools and graduated from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. He is married to Nicole Birmann Bloom of Paris originally who as Program Officer directs the Office of Performing Arts of Villa Albertine and the Cultural Services of the Embassy of France in New York.
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