John Gutleber Named Chairman of the
C.W. Post Real Estate Practitioners Institute

John J. Gutleber, president and CEO of the real estate development and management firm Castagna Realty Company, has been named chairman of the Board of Directors of the Real Estate Practitioners Institute of the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.

Founded in 1972 and headquartered at the C.W. Post Campus in Brookville since 1998, the Real Estate Practitioners Institute provides continuing education services, seminars, white papers and luncheons that address topics of interest to regional real estate practitioners. The mission of the Institute is to promote professionalism, ethics and education within the various segments of the real estate industry.

Together with C.W. Post’s Department of Continuing Education and Professional Studies (CEPS), which has been meeting the educational needs of professionals for more than 40 years, the Institute designs New York State-approved certificate programs that focus on commercial, industrial and residential real estate sales, real estate financing, and ethics and standards of professional practice.

Serving with Gutleber on the Board of Directors are 38 real estate professionals, including: Matthew Whalen of Garden City, vice president of development, AvalonBay Communities; Michael Harris Spector of Old Westbury, principal, Spector Group; Jeffrey Barber of Plainview, first vice president, State Bank of Long Island; Theresa Elkowitz of Belle Terre, principal, Freudenthal and Elkowitz Consulting Group; Vincent Ferro, Esq. of East Islip, senior vice president and counsel, First American Title Insurance Company of New York; and Daniel Gulizio of Huntington, land use consultant.

For additional information about the Real Estate Practitioner's Institute, call the C.W. Post School of Continuing Education and Professional Studies at (516) 299-2236.

Posted: January 8, 2007