Jeffrey Gural is the chairman of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, where he has been a principal since 1978, guiding the firm with CEO Barry Gosin toward its present iteration as one of the largest commercial real estate services firms in New York City. Newmark Grubb Knight Frank also includes more than 12,000 employees in more than 90 offices worldwide.

Gurals primarily focuses on the leasing and management of the approximately 8 million square feet of commercial space that Newmark Holdings owns in Manhattan, which started with a single purchase by himself and Gosin in the 1970s. The larger company also manages around 150 building in the New York metro area, with an ownership stake in 41.

Gural also oversees Newmark Grubb Knight Franks acquisitions as well as the companys non-institutional portfolio.

Born in July 1942 and raised in Woodmere, Long Island, Gural graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and got his start in real estate at the Morse-Diesel Construction Co. He joined a precursor to Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, one his father co-owned, in 1972.  -TA