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Business Career
Ira Zlotowitz is a successful real estate mortgage broker. He began his career at Meridian Capital, brokering his first commercial real estate transaction at age 21. His use of the cold call became a part of the business model, and Zlotowitz even trained large teams at the company using his methods. Zlotowtitz was only at Meridian Capital for four years, but his impact on the company's success was immense. In Zlotowitz's last year, Meridian Capital closed over $2 billion, but the company had only closed $300 million in the year prior to Zlotowitz's arrival. In 2001 after leaving Meridian Capital, together with Abraham Bergman, Zlotowitz founded Eastern Union Funding. Eastern Union Funding has expanded to over 100 employees in four offices, where the company closed over $3 billion in real estate loans in 2014, from its original four employees who worked out of just one office. Zlotowitz has become the youngest person ever to become president of a top 10 mortgage brokerage firm.

Family Life
Ira and his wife Rachel have three kids, and they live in Lakewood, New Jersey.

Awards/Accolades

 * Zlotowitz was named in Crain's New York Business's "Forty-Under-40" in 2005 at the age of 29.
 * Eastern Union Funding was named in Inc. Magazine as the fastest growing real estate company in the United States.
 * Eastern Union Funding was named in Crain's "2014 Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies in New York City".