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Michael D. Colacino (born April 1, 1957) is the President of global commercial real estate firm Studley, Inc. Most notably, Colacino led the real estate team which brokered the Time Warner acquisition and world headquarters development at New York’s Columbus Circle. In addition, he serves on the Real Estate Board of New York's Board of Governors.

Education and personal life
Colacino was born and raised in New York and attended high school at Horace Mann School in the Bronx where he currently serves as a trustee. Colacino majored in English at Harvard College where he graduated cum laude in 1979. He then went on to graduate with a master's degree in real estate from New York University, finishing first in his class. Additionally, he studied operations research and statistics at the graduate level at the New York University Stern School of Business. Personally Colacino is a science-fiction enthusiast with interests ranging from literature to technology and photography.

Career
Upon graduation, Colacino began his career at Environmental Research and Development, and then its real estate software spinoff, Resource Dynamics, where he eventually became the company’s president. His career in real estate continued to advance when Colacino joined Design Technologies Inc. in 1989 as a principal - a position in which he played an advisory role for commercial real estate clients. Later that year he was recruited to Studley, Inc. where he teamed up with Mitchell S. Steir to form one of New York City’s most prolific leasing teams. Nearly a decade after joining Studley, Colacino helped lead the development of the Time Warner Center in 2000, which stands as one of Midtown Manhattan’s largest real estate transactions. Time Warner, with Studley as a consultant, went on to finance its presence at Time Warner Center. During what would be a six year project, Colacino was part of the management team that bought out Studley from founder Julien J. Studley in 2002, a move which resulted in Colacino being appointed as the company's president.

In addition to maintaining an active role as president of Studley, Colacino continued to broker landmark transactions in Manhattan, including the 520,000-square-foot lease that relocated Wall Street firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft to One World Financial Center in 2004, the largest transaction in proximity of the World Trade Center site since 9/11.

Currently, the team of Colacino and Steir is again assisting Time Warner as it scours the city for 3.5 million square feet of office space, the biggest office lease assignment in history.

Awards and honors
In 2008, Colacino received the New York University Real Estate Institute's Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2012, he was honored by the Harlem Education Activities Fund for his involvement and leadership in the community