Off-the-radar capital sources are Bralower’s secret weapon.
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When he isn’t counting the $10 billion of debt, equity and corporate financing deals he’s completed over his career, Carlton Advisory Services managing director, John Bralower, is counting his blessings. A New Yorker born and breed, Bralower has found himself in the enviable position of being able to indulge his passions for travel and architecture while fulfilling his lifelong business ambitions. “My parents always told my brother and I to focus on what we liked and I was always interested in architecture and buildings. At some point, I figured out real estate was a career where you could combine those interests and make a good living.” While his brother pursued what would become a successful career in record producing, Bralower graduated from George Washington University, and then went on to Fordham Law School. He wound up working at the National Advertising Review Board where a meeting of high-powered executives gathered to discuss the consistency of rival mayonnaise brands was enough to convince him advertising law was not the path he was meant to follow. He recalled, “The Review Board regulated truth and accuracy in advertising and I remember attending… |