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Gerald Guterman is an international real estate developer and investor. He is one of the largest multi family apartment owner/operators (78,000+ apartments) and condominium converters in the United States, converting through 2017, 16,028 rental apartments to cooperative and condominium ownership throughout the United States. He also served as Operations Adviser to the Minister of Privatization, Government of Romania; Chairman, Committee on Romanian Banking & Finance Operations, United States Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC;
Co Chairman, Committee for Romanian Enterprise Development and Operations, United States Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; Operations Advisor to the Interior Minister, Government of Austria; Operations and Financial Advisor to the President, Government of Romania. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Guterman Partners, LLC. Gerald Guterman was born on June 13, 1942. He began a career in real estate at the age of 18 as a night porter for Fred Trump, father of famed developer Donald Trump. The Brooklyn born son of a beverage wholesaler, Guterman amassed a fortune with over 18,600 rental apartments purchased for his own account as well as an additional 16,028 apartments which he purchased and converted to condominium and co ops in sixteen states and separately, operated more than 60,000 rental apartments in fourteen states for unaffiliated, third party owners. Guterman also purchased, rehabilitated and resold 605 single family houses in 7 states and purchased and operated more than 3,250,000 net rentable square feet of office properties in eight states, as well as large scale housing and commercial developments throughout the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Beginning in the 1980s, he became one of the largest owner/operators and property managers in the United States, owning and operating over 18,600 rental apartments in 55 residential communities for his own long term interests, together with an additional 16,000 apartments which he purchased and operated for condominium and cooperative conversion in 21 residential communities in sixteen states. He also operated more than 60,000 apartments in over 250 third party owned rental communities nationwide.

In September 1986, Guterman drew media attention when he chartered the famed ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 along with a crew of over 1,000, for his 13 year old son's bar mitzvah party. Although the QE2 had been chartered for cruises by corporations, the Guterman family party was a first of its kind, said a spokesman for the Cunard line. The guests were mostly relatives, friends and neighbors of Gutermans who lived in Bedford, N. Y., in Westchester County, or friends of the children from camp or school. In attendance were numerous politicians and real estate figures including New York City Council, President Andrew J. Stein, Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin. The ship set sail at 6 p. m. though helicopters continued to touch down on the sports deck to drop off late comers, including Ivan F. Boesky, the stock and investment speculator. The paintings were housed in a gallery (created in the image of Manhattan's famous Frick Gallery) in a wing of Guterman's Bedford Estate. Artists in Guterman's collection included Rembrandt, Renoir, Barent Fabritius, Solomon van Ruysdael, Frans Hals, Hendrick Avercamp, Jan Lievens, Govaert Flinck, and Jan van Goyen, to name a few.

In 1988, a new tax law eliminated the tax shelter aspect of the co op conversion model, making them less desirable and resulting in heavy financial setbacks for Guterman and his Companies. Having already taken financial losses in the "Black Monday" stock market crash of 1987, Guterman placed his Stanhope Hotel (purchased in 1985 for $19,600,000) into Chapter 11 and immediately sold the hotel to Tobishima (a property company from Japan) for over $76,000,000. Further setbacks were created by a divorce decree that forced Guterman to sell his renowned art collection, considered at the time to be the most valuable such selection of Old Master paintings ever auctioned in New York. While the sale of Guterman's paintings brought "the highest total ever for an Old Master sale in America" and set 11 artist's records for price, A new law was passed in 1988 that limited private campaign contributions and drew scrutiny to both Donald Trump and Gerald Guterman. While their contributions were discussed at the hearings, the new law did not prohibit their practices that drew so much attention:

For example, the developer Donald Trump told the commission that in 1985 he spread tens of thousands of dollars in contributions to City Council President Andrew J. Stein among 18 subsidiary companies to skirt the state's limits of $50,000 for individual and $5,000 for corporate contributions. Another developer, Gerald Guterman, contributed $100,000 in one month to Mr. Goldin by parceling the gifts among 21 companies. Further, the report criticized the RTC for negotiating with Guterman while he was under investigation, though it was also noted that Guterman had been falsely accused and that all charges had been withdrawn or dismissed. He also served as a commissioner of the United States Romania Action Commission under the sponsorship of the United States Center for Strategic and International Studies, as well as Chairman of its banking and financing committees. Guterman served as personal financial advisor to the Minister of Privatization, Government of Romania. Guterman is a founder of Albert Einstein College of Medicine as well as a member of the Society of Founders of Miami University College of Medicine He was awarded "Humanitarian of the Year" by the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Guterman is a founding benefactor of Research Laboratory for the Study of Tumor Cell Biology and Research Laboratory for the Study of Immunodeficiency Disease at the National Asthma Center. He also established a joint Research Chair in Medical Engineering at Harvard University and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.