At the Desk of: Alan Rosenbaum

The GuardHill CEO on mortgages, blues and backgammon

Alan Rosenbaum (Credit: Tobias Truvillion)
Alan Rosenbaum (Credit: Tobias Truvillion)

From the March issue: Alan Rosenbaum is the CEO of GuardHill Financial Corp., a Manhattan-based mortgage bank and brokerage firm. The 82-person company, which Rosenbaum founded in 1992, brokers and backs about $1 billion in residential mortgages in the tri-state area annually, he said, with a focus on Manhattan and Brooklyn and an eye toward growing in Queens. 

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Despite the New York focus, Rosenbaum’s roots are in the Deep South. He grew up in a “middle class home in a nice neighborhood” in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and graduated from Louisiana State University in 1986. [more]