FREDERICK K. MAREK
Vice chairman
Rick Marek is Vice Chairman of Helmsley Spear LLC.
Mr. Marek brings more than four decades of New York City commercial real estate experience with him to Helmsley Spear. Rick is dedicated to advising tenants in the NYC office market, with a heavy focus on those in the legal and financial service industries.
Prior to joining Helmsley Spear and his short tenure at Avison Young, Rick spent 15 years as the President and co-founder of The Vortex Group, a boutique commercial real estate advisory company. Almost immediately after earning an MBA degree from Syracuse University and at only 21 years old, Mr. Marek began his career at Julien J. Studley, Inc, a company he went on to invest 34 years of his career in.
Rick’s main focus throughout the entirety of his career has been utilizing his vast knowledge and commercial real estate experience to advise tenants and assist them with their office space requirements.
Mr. Marek has completed major assignments for tenants including, but not limited to:
• Akerman LLP
• Bracewell LLP
• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney P.C
• Coller Capital Inc.
• Credit Suisse
• Edwards & Angell LLP
• Gates Capital Management
• Key Square Capital Management
• Lazard Freres & Co. LLC
• Otterbourg P.C.
• Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi LLP
• Rockefeller Brothers Fund
• Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Rick has been an active member of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) since the inception of his career. Mr. Marek spent 22 years as chair of REBNY’s Plaza Committee, participated for two terms on the group’s Commercial Board of Directors and since 2015, the REBNY Board of Governors.
In 2004, Mr. Marek received the Kenneth R. Gerrety Humanitarian Award at the annual REBNY dinner for initiating a fundraising effort among all REBNY members on September 11, 2001 to support the suffering children of the porters at the World Trade Center and workers at Windows on the World restaurant who had lost their lives on that day.
Rick is active in other areas of the community as well. He cofounded the DirectEffect research program at Rockefeller University in 1992 and is a member of the University’s Council. Rick has also been a trustee of Educational Alliance, a member agency of the United Jewish Appeal (UJA), for more than 20 years.
Mr. Marek attended Syracuse University and earned a Master of Business Administration, Marketing.