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Alan Ginsberg
Chairman

Alan Ginsberg began his real estate career in 1973 as a salesperson for a New York City-based firm that specialized in commercial lease transactions.  Within three years, he became the firm’s top producer, and by 1980 founded his own company, The Ginsberg Organization.  Within the next decade and a half, Mr. Ginsberg arranged the sale or lease of millions of square feet of commercial space to local, national and global corporations across a broad spectrum of uses ranging from headquarters offices and high-end retail, to manufacturing and back office administrative functions.

In one of the most significant transactions in New York State’s Hudson Valley, Mr. Ginsberg purchased the TechCity campus from IBM in February 1998.  The 2.5 million-square-foot complex, built by IBM over a span of nearly 40 years, employed 7,000 employees at its peak and was an economic mainstay of the region.  Since then, Mr. Ginsberg has taken a key role in the revitalization of the Hudson Valley, working to restore the thousands of jobs that were lost in recent years.

Today, Mr. Ginsberg envisions TechCity as a national model for large scale green redevelopment.  He has taken bold steps to restore the land beneath the 260-acre site, and to convert the complex to an environmentally friendly office and light manufacturing center.  Outmoded and wasteful energy sources are being converted to sustainable, non-polluting forms throughout TechCity, further improving the local environment.  In the near future, a Center of Excellence will be established at TechCity to explore further the best green initiatives for corporate America.

Mr. Ginsberg directs all aspects of the redevelopment of TechCity.  His creative and aggressive marketing efforts have already attracted major office and green manufacturing tenants, moving the project toward its goal of becoming a center for green collar jobs, led by forward-thinking business leaders.

Dan Wieneke
President

Daniel E. Wieneke is a highly experienced strategic planner, business and financial manager and an internationally recognized, pioneering expert in the field of large-scale economic redevelopment projects.  With more than 30 years of hands-on business management success, Mr. Wieneke brings a highly confident, entrepreneurial approach to every project.

At TechCity, Mr. Wieneke is the lead business development executive.  He is also responsible for TechCity’s overall operations, marketing and planning, as well as its government and community relations.

He is most well known for his leadership of the redevelopment of the 5,000-acre former Plattsburgh Air Force Base in upper New York State’s “North Country.”  As President & CEO of the Plattsburgh Airbase Redevelopment Corporation, Mr. Wieneke essentially transformed an abandoned Strategic Air Command military installation into a thriving, self-sufficient business park, reducing its complete redevelopment timeline from 25 to 40 years to less than eight years.  In addition to attracting and retaining U.S. and foreign-based businesses to the site, Mr. Wieneke spearheaded the project’s designation as an Empire Zone and Foreign Trade Zone.

Most recently, he served as Executive Director of the Adirondack Economic Development Corporation and Regional President of the Adirondack Bank.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Wieneke distinguished himself by being part of a management team for a pharmaceutical company that increased sales from $5 million to $25 million over a 10-year period.