Jacquelyn Sonenberg, head of Stribling Marketing Associates since last fall, has left the high-end marketing firm behind such new development sales efforts as the condo conversion in the Plaza Hotel to form her own real estate advisory firm.
She joined Stribling in July 2005 as a managing director, and weeks later succeeded Christopher Wilson at the helm of the brokerage’s marketing division.
Sonenberg, formerly a top executive at the Sunshine Group who also worked for Donald Trump, and Stribling founder Elizabeth Stribling both told The Real Deal the split was amiable. Sonenberg’s new firm, J.R. Sonenberg & Associates, will act as an adviser to the real estate investment banking industry.
Before joining Stribling, Sonenberg was managing director of sales and marketing at the Beekman Regent. Her career in real estate development marketing stretches back to the mid-1970s. At the Trump Organization she was involved in Trump Tower and 500 Park Tower.
In 1986, Sonenberg moved from Trump with Louise Sunshine and formed the influential Sunshine Group, becoming its first executive vice president and broker of record as it marketed several luxury residential developments in the late 1980s.