DMITRY GENZER , 25

BBA ’02
President, DNG Properties LLC

Dmitry Genzer always has new ideas. In junior high school, when he wasn’t busy developing them for science fairs, he wrote them down and mailed them to himself.

It’s no wonder, then, that as a Baruch student one of his ideas—an advanced proprietary luggage tracking system called TravelTrak—earned him and his partner, Marc Benathan, second place in the first Baruch College Entrepreneurship Competition.

The Russian-born entrepreneur came to New York when he was 10. While still a Baruch student majoring in computer information systems, he held CIS positions at Bloomberg, Mackenzie Partners, Inc., and Colgate-Palmolive. After graduating with honors a semester early, he was offered a position at CIBC World Markets as a business data analyst. Two years later, he made the bold decision to leave CIBC and start his own real estate investment company. “One reason I left the corporate world was because I was unable to change it, to influence it. I was unable to make my dreams become a reality,” says Genzer.

Genzer has been inspired by his parents’ willingness to forge new paths for themselves. His father, who had been an engineer in Russia, went into real estate here. His mother, who had been a teacher, became a psychotherapist. “My parents always told me to follow my dreams, not to let anything stop me,” says Genzer. In December he earned an MBA from Fordham University, and this year, his company, DNG Partners LLC, will launch a new, innovative program in foreclosures.“Overall,” he says, “I live by Walt Disney’s motto: If you can dream it, you can do it.”

—Pam Widener

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