At Stribling & Associates, two senior executives are making moves that involve a homecoming of sorts.
Elizabeth Ann Kivlan, daughter of Stribling founder Elizabeth Stribling, will be the director of sales of Stribling’s two Downtown offices, and Kenneth Scheff will manage the Uptown office.
Scheff first came to Stribling in August 2003, and has served as the director of sales for the Chelsea and Tribeca offices. Now, he’s moving Uptown to oversee sales, and also experiencing a bit of a homecoming. Scheff was born on the Upper East Side, but moved to the suburbs at a young age.
He said his main priorities at the Uptown office, which is located at 924 Madison Avenue, are getting to know the 150 agents he is overseeing and to keep up the work of the former Uptown manager, Betsy Dean, who retired from Stribling after 18 years.
“Betsy was very, very loved,” Scheff said. “She was a mentor to me.”
Kivlan also had someone to look up to.
“I remember being four or five and my mother talking about co-brokering at the dinner table,” she said. “My mother started the company when I was just under a year old with just 12 brokers, and I was able to watch it grow.”
Kivlan has worked at the Downtown and Uptown offices, and was the team leader for the One
Brooklyn Bridge Park condo development marketed by Stribling.
“It’s lovely to come back Downtown where I started,” Kivlan said. “I want to really work side
by side with my brokers and continue the wonderful business.”
Kivlan’s real estate career started in San Francisco working at Pacific Union. Her two Downtown offices are located at 32 Avenue of the Americas and 340 West 23rd Street.