Voted Small Business of the Year 2010 by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce!

The New York Grant Company. founded in 2002, is a team of experts in economic incentives who know how to expedite the process, maximize clients' benefits, and bundle benefits wherever possible to help clients grow and succeed.

Dozens of economic programs exist to incentivize businesses and other organizations to relocate, renew, expand, create jobs or make investments in the New York area. But the process is a maze. Deadlines, regulations, landmines, bureaucracy--Who needs it? Who has the time or expertise? Let the New York Grant Company cut through the red tape so you can focus on running your business, while we do the work and help make sure you receive every dollar on the table.

Ann Kayman
Chief Executive Officer & Principal

Voted "2009 Enterprising Woman of the Year" by Enterprising Women Magazine.

Ann Kayman has thirteen years of experience in economic development in New York. She served for four years in the Giuliani and Bloomberg Administrations as chief of Business Development and Senior Vice President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. EDC is the City's primary portal to the business community.

Ann led a team that attracted record numbers of businesses to the City of New York from around the world. She also directed relief efforts to help more than 20,000 small businesses recover and rebuild after September 11th. Ann is conversant with dozens of available economic incentive programs, and with the federal, state, and local agencies that run them. She is also an expert on lease structuring, real property tax, commercial rent tax and sales tax.

Ann is also a lawyer with 25 years' experience practicing as a corporate lawyer and litigator in New York. Prior to working with the City, she practiced at two major law firms in Midtown Manhattan, where she represented national and international clients in complex cases.

Ann earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1982, and her J.D. cum laude from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1985. In 2008, Ann engaged in the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

Ann is first Co-Chair of the Green Finance Subcommittee of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce. She also serves on the Green Design & Construction Subcommittee and the Green Steering Committee. Ann serves on the Advisory Board of the Women's Leadership Exchange. She is also a founding member of the Leadership Exchange Circle in New York. Ann has participated in several capacities with the Intelligent Communities Forum & Awards since 2001. She and her team are also active members of the Real Estate Board of New York, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Building Owners and Managers Association, Professional Women in Construction, International Facilities Managers Association, CoreNet, US Green Buildings Council, New York Executive Council, Alliance for Downtown New York, and Long Island City Business Development Corporation, among others.

Ann's work has been extensively profiled in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Crain's New York Business, Site Selection Magazine, CBS Radio, Close Up TV News, and many trade publications. She is a regular writer on the subject of economic zones and incentives for Thomson - RIA's national publication, The Multistate Journal of Taxation and Incentives. Ann is also a regular speaker at leading business conferences and seminars on the subject of economic stimulus funds, economic development incentives, and "green finance."

Marsha Parris
Vice President

Marsha joined the New York Grant Company in January 2007 and serves the company in many capacities. She is operational head of the business as well as business developer and program expert. Marsha has processed literally hundreds of client applications for benefits through the bureaucratic maze, often solving the unsolvable for the most complex cases and managing the process to insure utmost client benefit.

Marsha comes to NYGC with extensive prior experience in both the public and not-for-profit sectors, having served as benefits administrator in the US Social Security Administration, as well as at Pratt Institute and Medgar Evers College in operational and marketing roles..

At Pratt, Marsha was Operations Manager for the Bursar's Office, where she designed and impletmented new policies and procedures to provide total client satisfaction. At Medgar Evers, Marsha served in the marketing and public relations department, producing all print and media communications for the college.

A native of Grenada, Marsha was graduated summa cum laude from Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, where she earned her bachelor's degree in Marketing and her associate's degree in Business Administration. Marsha also holds a Master's Degree in Design Management from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

As Vice President of the New York Grant Company, Marsha is integrally involved in all aspects of the business, serving clients with exceptional skill, developing new business and service lines, and overseeing staff to ensure the highest levels of client service and fastest turnaround.

Brent Samuel
Senior Business Analyst

Brent is responsible for processing clients' applications for a variety of grants and incentives throughout New York City. This includes applications under the Lower Manhattan Commercial Revitalization Program, the Small Firm Assistance Program, the New York City Commercial Expansion Program, the New York State Empire Zones (now known as Excelsior Jobs Program), and the Relocation Employment Assistance Program, among others.

A native of St. Vincent in the Grenadine Islands, Brent started as an intern at the New York Grant Company in November 2007 and has been promoted four times through hard work, dedication, integrity, team spirit, talent, and results. He is truly an exceptional young man.

Brent is currently an honors student completing his degree at Baruch College of the City University of New York.

Donald Glassman
Senior Business Analyst & Head of Research

Donald joined the company in early 2009 and brings with him an amazing skill set in research, writing and analysis. Donald is a professional archivist by background, having earned his Master's Degree in library science from Queens College as well as a Master's in English from Brooklyn College, and having served as the Archivist for Barnard College of Columbia University for eight years prior to joining NYGC.

Donald has performed extensive research over the past nine months on the ARRA stimulus funds coming out of Washington, DC. He has compiled all of the federal, state, and local econonomic programs--including grants, tax breaks, and subsidies in over a dozen program areas--that are being rolled out throughout the United States to help with the country's economic recovery. Donald has also researched the many new "green" programs of the federal, state and local government, helping to create NYGC's own "GIGaBook" (Green Incentives Guide). Donald has also helped the firm marshal and master the City's new PlaNYC programs and legislation affecting New York building owners and others. In addition to everything, Donald has created NYGC's own incentive library which now accumulates, both in print and electronic form, all of the major economic incentive programs in the New York Metro Area available to our clients.

A native of Brooklyn, Donald is fluent in Mandinka and Spanish, and consistent with his "green" expertise, he rides his bicycle to and from work every day.

Prior to working as the Archivist for Barnard, Donald was a photo archivist for the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. He also worked in various capacities in records management at CUNY's Graduate School, the New York Historical Society, and Yeshiva University. He is a longstanding member of the American Library Association, the Society of American Archivists, and the Metropolitan Archivists Round Table.

Jadah Carroll
Tax Specialist & Accountant

Jadah is our outside tax preparer and tax specialist. She started her own firm, Jadah Carroll, LLC as a team of bookkeepers in 1989. Now headquartered in SoHo, Jadah serves dozens of businesses, including the New York Grant Company. Jadah is an Enrolled Agent licensed to practice before the IRS. She is also member of the National Society of Accountants and the National Association of Tax Preparers. She is an accredited tax preparer and tax advisor. Jadah is an accomplished dancer, and in her spare time, she engages in many creative, artistic and not-for-profit endeavors.

Ruth Rizzo
Bookkeeper & CRT Specialist

With over twenty years' experience in tax and bookkeeping, Ruth services all of the firm's bookkeeping, collections and accounting needs. Ruth is also responsible for more than 50 clients' quarterly and annual NYC Commercial Rent Tax filings and exemptions claims. She has singularly created a variety of techniques to expedite the filing of such claims, to maximize clients' benefits, and to help make sure that clients pay the right amount on time. A native of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and resident of Staten Island, Ruth has a husband of 28 years and a daughter of 23 years. From 1999 through 2007, Ruth was with the Staten Island Yankees (Yankees Minor League or "A Team")--as their bookkeeper! She has more than 20 years' experience as a bookkeeper.

Sam Rade, LEED Green Associate
Green Analyst

Sam is responsible for mastering all of the economic incentives available for organizations that are interested in making environmentally sustainable improvements to property or expansions of "green" business. He also writes grant applications for "green" incentives and currently tracks more than 67 "green" incentive programs available to NY area businesses. His objective is to support those clients who seek to "go green" with the most funding possible for their initiatives, to reduce our carbon footprint, and to create green jobs.

Before joining NYGC in 2010, Sam worked as an energy auditor for GDS Associate, Inc., helping to identify efficiency opportunities and to educate homeowners about the advantages of "greening" residential properties. Sam also worked for the Win-Win Campaign of Enivrolution.org, a not-for-profit youth led initiative to create green jobs while helping small businesses take advantage of green incentives for making their operations more energy efficient.

Sam earned his bachelor's degree in Political Economics with a Minor in Spanish from Pitzer College in Claremont, CA. He grew up in Water Mill, Long Island and is an avid outdoorsman and naturalist.

Gerard Black
Research Analyst and Grant Writer

Gerard is a native of Laurelton, Queens and is a true product of the New York City public school system. Gerard attended PS 156 in Queens, then Hunter College High School, a school for the intellectually gifted. An avid writer, Gerard's prize-winning work has been published in the NY Daily News and elsewhere.

Prior to joining NYGC in 2010, Gerard worked for the Cantrell-Dolas Literary Agency, the New York Historical Society Library, the East Flatbush Public Library, and the Grand Army Plaza Public Library. He also seved as Director of Content Development for NOMBI, Inc., an online educational support system, and he was a business developer and editor for Khan Projects, a New York media company.

Gerard was graduated from Yale University with a degree in English literature in 1992. He earned a Master's degree in Library Science from Queens College in 2002.

Stephanie Rodriguez
Intern

Stephanie is a 2010 intern for the firm. She is currently a senior at the John V. Lindsay Wildcat Academy Charter School in lower Manhattan. NYGC is proud to be participating in the Academy's acclaimed Internship Program for City youth. Moreover, we are grateful for Stephanie's many contributions to our daily work.

Additional Staff & Freelancer resumes available upon request.
Projects at the New York Grant Company often require us to call upon special experts and grant writers as the clients' needs dictate. We are proud to have a stable of such talented people whom we may call upon when the job needs it.