Dean's Advisory Council
Charles Klatskin
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Charles Klatskin currently serves as a Managing Director of Jones Lang LaSalle, which acquired Klatskin Associates in November, 2007, for which he served as Chairman and CEO. Mr. Klatskin is also the Chairman and CEO of Charles Klatskin Company, Inc., a real estate brokerage firm located in Teterboro, New Jersey, with a branch office in South Brunswick, New Jersey.
In 1962, Mr. Klatskin was the youngest member ever admitted into the Society of Industrial Realtors (SIOR) where he has served as a national director, national district vice president, regional vice president, president of the New Jersey chapter SIOR, and chairman of various other committees.
Mr. Klatskin has served as a member of the advisory board of the George Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and the board of directors of Englewood Hospital and is a former chairman of the Construction Board of Appeal, Tenafly, New Jersey. He is a member of the board of governors of the Jewish Home and Rehabilitation Center and serves on the board of directors of Temple Emanuel, Englewood, New Jersey. He has also served as chairman of the board of trustees for the JCC on the Palisades for which he is currently a trustee.
Mr. Klatskin is a graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where he majored in industrial real estate and economics. He has lectured on various phases of industrial and commercial real estate at the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, NYU graduate school of business, Fairleigh Dickinson University and the Wharton Graduate School. In 1999 Mr. Klatskin received the Leadership Excellence Award from the Real Estate Institute of Monmouth University, and in 2000 he received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Real Estate and in 2001 was presented with the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) Lifetime Achievement Award.