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Richard
Gregory Zahn Sr., PhD
President and Chief Executive
Officer
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Richard Zahn has 20 years of leadership that begin with
serving eleven years in the Special Operations Command
of the United States Army beginning in 1985. After leaving
his distinguished combat decorated career honorably,
Mr. Zahn spent two years with the Cumberland County
Sheriff's Office on a Narcotics task force until he
was persuaded to move into the more dangerous world
of business where he set his sights on business school
and entered into a management program at ICI - Glidden
Paints Company. With many certifications under his belt
to include NDPA Certified Coating Consultant, Certified
Thoro-Coatings waterproofing contractor, Indoor air
quality certified Mold Remediator, Certified Indoor
environmentalist, Mr. Zahn entered into a General Contractor
School to receive his first of many state General Contractors
Licenses.
After 6 years of service with
Glidden, Hersh Reconstruction recruited Mr. Zahn as
a Director of Operations and shortly thereafter partnered
with the firm and later became CEO of all combined Hersh
operations. Hersh Reconstruction, Inc. established in
1985 is a Multi-Family renovation company with annual
gross contracts exceeding 65 million dollars. Hersh
has expertise in all aspects of Condominium conversion
and renovates an average of 8000 units (37 -40 projects)
per annum. After several years of continued growth Mr.
Zahn created ZMG Corp. (Zahn Management Group) and begin
a development arm that became a natural extension of
Hersh's core business. Mr. Zahn has put together an
"A-Team" and is very proud of his National
Award winning staff of contractors and developers alike.
Hersh Reconstruction, Inc received the NAA (National
Apartment Association) Renovation of the Year award
for the Windsor Lake Project in Atlanta, Georgia in
2001, and recently won the Melbourne, Fl. city beautification
award for the Portifino apartment renovation.
Currently, Mr. Zahn is CEO of
Hersh Reconstruction, Inc., and ZMG Corp. ZMG is Mr.
Zahn's new crown jewel in which he has heavily invested
in quality talent from all over the US and has recently
partnered with a twenty-year veteran and President of
his combined ZMG companies to execute his development
plan. ZMG is an aggressive Florida Based real estate
development-company with vast years of constructions
and development experience. Hersh has performed thousands
of renovations for tens of developers over the years
with a perfect track record. Twenty years later, Mr.
Zahn stepped up and with his acquired talent and began
the principled centered road to success with his own
development arm. Mr. Zahn has completed several developments
lately that include his 194 unit La Costa Brava (20,500,000.00
purchase and development) downtown urban development
which sold out in 10 months time, 268 Unit Arbor Club
(36,500,000.00 purchase and development) project in
beautiful Ponte Vedra Beach, FL that is weeks away from
sell out, 32 Unit (6,500,000.00 purchase and development)
luxurious ocean front condo development in the Blue
Ribbon award winning Deerfield Beach, 28 Unit downtown
high end urban district (3,100,000.00 purchase and development)
Orlando development, and the most recent purchase of
The Stratford, a Winter park Condominium (18,200,000.00
purchase and development) set in the high rent district
of Winter Park with the areas best schools.
Mr. Zahn received his AS from
the University of North Carolina, BA in Marketing from
the University Of Texas. Mr. Zahn also received his
MBA from Regis University in Denver, Colorado and subsequently
completed his PhD in Management from Regis University.
Mr. Zahn has four children from his past marriage.
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