D'Amico: CCIM Expands Its Horizons

NEW YORK CITY-For Wayne D’Amico, senior advisor at Lance Capital LLC here and principal of Wayne D’Amico & Co. Inc. in Essex, CT, being elected 2013 president of the CCIM Institute is the logical culmination of an involvement with the organization that began two decades ago. A 1989 graduate of New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, D’Amico tells GlobeSt.com that he identified CCIM early on as a way to obtain education that supplemented what he learned at NYU.

Beginning with his involvement in the governance of the local CCIM chapter in Connecticut, D’Amico began seeing the organization’s real value when he met fellow designees at national gatherings. “I found myself in rooms with all sorts of practitioners from around the country,” he recalls. “Some were street brokers in secondary markets; others worked for the major companies in major markets and others were corporate real estate executives. That’s when I started to appreciate the opportunities that CCIM presented: to not just do what you do in your market or career path specifically, but also to create opportunities by expanding those horizons to the entire field.”