Origin Stories: Bright Power’s Andrea Mancino On Learning From The Low Points

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September 29, 2020

By development

This series delves into the myriad ways people enter the commercial real estate industry and what contributes to their success.

Andrea Mancino started at Bright Power, an energy and water management company, as an intern and has a made her way all the way up to the position of executive vice president. Today, she oversees a team of engineers, 50% of whom are women.

Bisnow: How did you get introduced to CRE?
Mancino: I started out my career performing energy audits on residential properties, but I wanted to make a bigger impact. I saw there was a need to reduce carbon emissions from buildings and knew that working on larger multifamily buildings would have an even bigger impact. So, I shifted my career to focus on those buildings. And New York City certainly has a large stock of multifamily buildings!

Read the full interview on Bisnow’s website.

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