Brown Harris co-chair appointed to Israel Bonds board of directors.Kent M. Swig, owner and co-chairman of Brown Harris Stevens and principal of Swig Burris Equities, has been named to State of Israel Bonds' National Board of Directors. In announcing the appointment, Board chairman Burton P. Resnick of Jack Resnick & Sons cited Swig's "outstanding leadership and service" in Israel Bonds' Real Estate and Construction Division. "As the Division's campaign chairman from 1997 to 2002, Kent headed drives totaling a record $175 million in bond sales," Resnick said. "When Kent was honored hon·or n. 1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate. 2. a. Good name; reputation. b. at the Division's 2003 luncheon, his hands-on involvement made it the most successful single-honoree event in Bonds history with over $78.5 million in sales." Swig, now the Division's vice chairman, was inspired by the pioneering efforts of his grandfather, the late Benjamin H. Swig, and Ben's lifelong business partner Jack D. Weiler. In 1951, when Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion Noun 1. David Ben Gurion - Israeli statesman (born in Poland) and active Zionist who organized resistance against the British after World War II; prime minister of Israel (1886-1973) Ben Gurion, David Grun sought to promote U.S. investments in his country's securities, they played key roles in founding Israel Bonds and mounting a productive campaign in the real estate industry. Brown Harris Stevens is one of New York's oldest and largest residential real estate providers. Swig Burris Equities acquires and develops real estate in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). . Swig is also a principal and board chairman of The Swig Company, a family-owned real estate and hotel firm based in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . |
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