Adam Hochfelder was born in 1971 and was brought up on Long Island, in Old Westbury, New York. He attended the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, from which he graduated in 1993. Mr. Hochfelder began his professional career while still in university, after his sophomore year, when he took on an internship position at Newmark and Co, a major real-estate services company . In 1996, Mr. Hochfelder co-founded Max Capital Management Corp and began building his commercial real-estate portfolio, that reached up to seven million square feet, measuring up to holdings of some of the most prominent real-estate magnates. In 1998, Adam Hochfelder was one of the youngest people ever selected to serve on the Real Estate Board of New York. Thanks to Adam Hochfelder’s exceptional business management skills, his real estate investment firm in NYC reached over $3 billion in assets under management. Under Mr. Hochfelder’s stewardship, the firm added some major acquisition