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Posted: November 6, 2020
President’s message: Newly installed members - by Warren Lizio
2020 president of IREM Boston.
This year may look a little different with COVID-19. The Boston chapter of IREM has been busy servicing our members during these hard times.
Congratulation to the newly installed members and their companies.
For over 85 years, our members have made us the world’s strongest voice for all things real estate management. Today, we’re growing and strengthening the IREM community. When one IREM member succeeds, we all succeed. It’s my pleasure to recognize these outstanding colleagues who have demonstrated much dedication and hard work by earning an IREM certification.
The chapter is proud to announce our newly installed members to the Boston chapter.
With great honor we installed seven ARM’s, one ACOM and six CPM’s on October 22nd by an zoom conference.
Shadah L. Thames, ARM, Renzi Bulger Group, LLC
Lauren Paquette-Sprague, ARM, Lochmere Winona Management LLC
Marlon Bascombe, ARM, Related Management
Alena Armond, ARM, Prime Property Services
Gerard Distefano , ARM, Cambridge Housing
Janet Doherty, ARM, CJ Management
Tania Gonzalez, ARM, Corcoran Management Company, AMO
Mijin Lee, ARM, The Simon Companies, AMO
Tami Rater, ACoM, CBRE Boston
Carlos Lopez, CPM
William Mackey, CPM, Becht Engineering
Pamelia Haynes, CPM, Micozzi Management
Matthew Needle, CPM, Fineberg Management
Enid M. Berrios, CPM, Housing Management Resources
Richard Colburn, CPM, Reliant RS
The members installed in 2020 also include the new members who have been installed in the early part of 2020 !
Please welcome all these new members to the Boston chapter!
Warren Lizio, CPM, ARM is the 2020 president of IREM Boston.
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