3月8日，美国中国总商会在纽约举办2018 Lunch & Learn系列（一）职场发展经验分享午餐会，邀请到Newmark Knight Frank的Senior Managing Director Lee Kosmac作为本期嘉宾做客总商会，与30余位来自招商银行纽约分行、远大美国公司、汇丰银行、EisnerAmper、Douglas Elliman、Cushman & Wakefield、UHY LLP、亚洲协会、新华社北美分社等会员企业及合作伙伴的朋友们分享了关于职业转型、职场发展的经验与心得。
在讨论中，Lee建议年轻朋友们，在思考职业发展时，可以从掌握某项专业知识入手，同时注重通用技能的培养；在积累人脉的过程中，多从对方的角度考虑，关注对方的感受，始终保持一颗好奇心，提出好问题；锻炼在不同场合讲好自己故事的能力。
美国中国总商会诚挚感谢Lee Kosmac对本次Lunch & Learn活动的大力支持，感谢各会员企业及朋友们的踊跃参与。总商会Lunch & Learn系列旨在为广大会员企业及合作伙伴提供面对面的对话平台，分享业界洞见，交流发展经验。诚挚欢迎会员朋友们提供更多话题建议，请联系contact@cgccusa.org。
LEE KOSMAC
Senior Managing Director
Lee Kosmac joined Newmark Knight Frank in 2004. Formerly a broker, Ms. Kosmac has transitioned into the role of CEO Barry Gosin's chief of staff. In this capacity, Ms. Kosmac provides client-side relationship management, strategically managing all of his endeavors to build and maintain relationships. She acts as the direct liaison between the client and Mr. Gosin, in addition to coordinating internal communications between the senior executives of Newmark Knight Frank. Ms. Kosmac contributes invaluable business knowledge from her past experience in brokerage, operations, marketing, and management and executive positions. She understands the value of each client's unique business objectives, always attuned to its financial goals, corporate culture and nuances of the organizational infrastructure.
Prior to her relationship management role, Ms. Kosmac served as a real estate advisor, successfully completing a number of challenging assignments on both a national and international level. Select clients included: Pfizer, Hewitt Associates, MetLife, Merck-Medco, Cable/Wireless, Rutgers University, McGraw-Hill, ING Reliastar, Louis Dreyfus, Cablevision, the New York Times, Bank of New York and J.P. Morgan Chase. Before joining Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, Ms. Kosmac was with GVA Williams as a senior vice president. She also served key positions with Grubb & Ellis and Insignia/ESG.
Prior to her career in commercial real estate, Ms. Kosmac was vice president of operations for System Connections, Inc. She had P&L responsibility, accountable for organizing, staffing and managing the start-up software development company. Earlier, Ms. Kosmac was vice president of marketing for Updata Software Company. Before joining Updata, she held various management and executive positions at On-Line Software International. Preceding that position, she was a senior consultant with the Stenrich Group, a marketing management consulting firm. Practice areas included strategic planning, marketing, product development, sales training and advertising.
Ms. Kosmac was recently selected as one of the 100 Women Real Estate Leaders for the 21st Century by Real Estate Weekly and the Association of Real Estate Women (AREW). She was the recipient of the Real Estate Broker Award from the Morris Area Development Group for her outstanding contribution to the economy of Morris County through her representation of Pfizer Inc. Bergen County. The municipality of Haworth, NJ, named Ms. Kosmac Volunteer of the Year in 2004 for more than 17 years of service as a member of the Haworth Planning Board. She has presented seminars for the American Management Association, The Stenrich Group and Penton Learning, Inc. Currently, she is a member of Cornet Global NYC Chapter and serves as an active member on the education committee.
Ms. Kosmac holds an M.B.A. in Marketing from New York University and has completed post graduate studies in Psychology at Bucknell University.