Barry Gosin

Gosin famously sits in an open-floor bullpen — à la Michael Bloomberg — at Newmark’s headquarters on Park Avenue, where he seems hell-bent on building a powerhouse to challenge commercial real estate’s biggest brokerages.

Newmark is the smallest of the big publicly traded CRE service firms, trailing Cushman & Wakefield, Colliers International, JLL and CBRE in terms of market cap. But the company punches above its weight, in large part due to the vision Gosin has implemented over his five decades at the firm.

In August 2025, for example, Newmark advised the asset manager Blue Owl Capital and its partners on a $4 billion joint venture to develop an AI data center campus in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. And in 2023 the company advised the FDCI on the sale of $60 billion in loans from the shuttered Signature Bank.

Gosin has been determined to build up Newmark’s business lines at all costs — sometimes putting him at odds with shareholders — particularly since the company’s IPO in 2015.

But it hasn’t been easy. Newmark’s stock lagged for years and struggled to regain its value from the initial offering; shares have been on a rally this year and are now above the IPO price.

Gosin’s ability to grow the company has been helped by his partnership with Howard Lutnick, and since the Cantor Fitzgerald head joined the Trump Administration, Gosin’s influence at Newmark has only grown.

— Rich Bockmann