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Joel I. Picket took charge of Gotham Organization Inc. in 1965 and has led the evolution of the now 72-year old company from what was strictly a general contracting business to a multidimensional full-service real estate firm active in general contracting construction management and development management both of its own and third-party properties. Mr. Picket is responsible for the diversity of Gotham’s portfolio which includes construction and development of residential commercial medical educational and hotel properties in the New York metropolitan area. Gotham has consistently ranked as one of the 400 largest contractors in the United States and has constructed more than 27 000 residential units.
Mr. Picket is a member of the Board of Trustees Executive Committee and is Chairman of the Real Estate Committee of Continuum Health Partners Inc. one of the largest nonprofit hospitals chains in New York City and he serves as a Trustee in three of Continuum’s constituent hospitals. Mr. Picket is a Member of the Board of Overseers of Albert Einstein College of Medicine; an Advisory Board Member at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Cornell University; a Board Member of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation; an Advisory Board Member at The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute; a Trustee from 1998 until 1994 and 2002 until the present of Fordham University; a Member of the Board of Governors and Executive Committee of the Real Estate Board of New York; a Board Member of The Foundation for the National Archives; and a Board Member of the New York Philharmonic.
Mr. Picket holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University. He has been an OSG Board member since 1989 and is a member of the Audit Committee. | 