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James Benjamin Ferrari, Chairman

James Ferrari is a businessman, social entrepreneur, filmmaker, writer and visual artist. He is at work on a multitude of projects ranging from media to business to philanthropy all with an eye on empowerment through social interaction.

In the business world, James Ferrari founded Benjamin James Real Estate after a long a frustrating search for the perfect home in New York. He saw the need for a real estate agency that was capable of catering to a full range of New Yorkers. His aim was simple: to create a truly service-oriented real estate firm with expert agents that worked hard for sellers, buyers, renters, and landlords.

Benjamin James was founded in 1993, and has become a leading firm in the New York City real estate market. Under Ferrari’s reinvigorated leadership in 2006, Benjamin James Real Estate began to more closely focus on work with developers to market new buildings more effectively by harnessing its profile as a young and progressive company of creative and savvy New Yorkers.

Philanthropically, James facilitated the construction of homes in flood-devastated Mozambique in the fall of 2001. The project was derived from James’ alliance with the Synergos Institute and he worked closely with the FDC (Foundation for Community Development) and its chairperson Graça Machel, the wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela.

In 2002 he attended a workshop on the global status of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Windhoek, Namibia. The workshop, sponsored by UNICEF, was attended by delegates from 22 countries with the expressed goals of implementing large-scale action to achieve United Nations General Assembly Special Session goals, develop a clear vision of the way forward and make commitments to action, at country and regional levels.

More recently, James participated in a Sister City workshop (Sponsored by Mayor Bloomberg and Ambassador Soderberg) focusing on New York City's Tourism industry and Economic Market while bringing together the similarities with our sister city Johannesburg. His interests encompass projects related to reproductive health, AIDS, and the social and environmental fabric of Sub-Saharan Africa. From communities to entire societies, from grass roots projects to national and international organizations, James works with groups to challenge their infrastructure in order to solve social problems.

James Ferrari’s formal introduction into the world of film began in 2004 when he was contacted by Fox Films to work as a liaison to the African nation of Namibia. It was through Mr. Ferrari’s contacts and enterprising that principle photography was able to commence on the production of Flight of the Phoenix.

At the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, James helped produce two films that had their world premiere as official selections of the fest. James co-produced the romantic comedy Kettle of Fish that starred Gina Gerson (Face/Off, The Insider) and Matthew Modine (Any Given Sunday, Full Metal Jacket) and was exhibited at the Cannes Film Festival. The other- a short film directed by actor Mike Doyle (TV’s Law & Order: SVU)- titled Shiner and starred Tony-nominated actress Amy Ryan (‘A Street Car Named Desire’).

James Ferrari attended Hunter College, majoring in Political Science, with continuing education in Globalization and its Effect on the 20th Century. In addition to his work in Real Estate, James works with developing world governments and NGOs with a goal of bridging partnerships as a means of diplomacy. He often advises multinational corporations relating to local political, economic and social issues in developing nations. He believes that America needs partnerships, and not rhetoric, with emerging world nations and cultures in order to have a viable future.

James Ferrari is a member of the Foreign Policy Association, the Public Policy Institute, the Real Estate Board of New York, New York Art Society and Society for the Preservation of Public Space, Board of Director on Color Me In, a friend of the African Rainforest Conservancy, and Accompanied Literary Society.

Contact:
Office: 212-645-4477
Cell: 917-532-4747
Email: ferrarijames@aol.com

 

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