Joe attended an international boarding school in Switzerland and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1973. His early business career included stints at Swiss Bank Corporation in Basel, Switzerland and Deutsche Bank, in Frankfort, Germany. He then moved to Eastern Kentucky with his wife, Lucy, and worked as a strip miner at Falcon Coal Company, followed by 10 years in the coal export industry.
In 1989 Joe moved to Amagansett, NY and committed himself to the real estate business. In 1992 he was one of the founding partners of Dunemere Associates, one of the East End's pre-eminent real estate agencies, which was sold to Brown Harris Stevens in 2004. In 2008 he founded Rosehip Partners.
Joe's diverse business experience lends itself to the development of Rosehip, a company which is as much in the information management business as it is in real estate brokerage. While with Dunemere Joe managed his company's migration to the internet with Dunemere becoming the first area brokerage to develop a World Wide Web presence.
With Rosehip his mission is to use the internet to break new ground in addressing the inefficiencies of the real estate industry's legacy business model.
James Young Bio:
After graduating from the University of Vermont with a BA in English Literature James started his career working for 1134 Marketing and Design as a Manager of Business Development where he focused on bringing in new accounts in the technology sector. After several successful years he left to attend the University of South Carolina's, Moore School of Business where he received an MBA in International Marketing.
Following graduate school James joined the Oracle Software Corporation where he was tasked to develop and manage marketing and sales partnerships for the mobile technology group across Latin America as a Director of Business Development. Among other accounts, he supported Telmex, and Telebras, the national telephone companies in Mexico and Brazil respectively.
After 5 years with Oracle, James moved back home to East Hampton joining Brown Harris Stevens Real Estate. Of note was his sale of the Shepherds Neck Inn and Beach Hotel in Montauk, a deal involving two hotels, over 90 rooms, a restaurant and bar, owner financing and an equity purchase option among other complexities.
James then founded James Young Commercial Broker later merging into Rosehip, LLC in partnership with Joseph Kazickas, a fellow entrepreneur and like minded technologist. Together they have developed www.hamptonsrentals.com, a web-based service for rental homeowners to manage and promote their rental properties.
James has a home in East Hampton and is married to a great woman named Vicky. He spends most of his free time chasing his son William who has recently started to walk!
