For 18 years and through at least two downturns and one big boom, Gordon Golub was a top executive at Citi Habitats, one of the largest residential brokerages in New York City. While there, he was an executive vice president as well as its director of rentals, a not inconsequential position, given that Citi Habitats primarily focused on rentals.

His departure from Citi Habitats in January 2013 caused quite a stir. Golub left to join Compass (then a fledgling start-up called Urban Compass) that was staking its identity on using technology to streamline brokers workloads and speed up deals. Golub became head of agent development and rentals at Compass.

Golub graduated from the George Washington University.