In 2013, Mr. Longua retired after twelve years as a Clinical Associate Professor in the Masters of Real Estate program of the New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate. He since taught as an adjunct professor Business Division of Molloy College on Long Island and the Newman Real Estate Center at Baruch College in New York City.
Coincident to his teaching activities at New York University, Mr. Longua has lectured on the subjects of real estate finance and real estate capital markets in the Netherlands, Germany, Japan and China, besides numerous presentations throughout the United States to trade associations and conferences.
Prior to his position at Schack, Mr. Longua had over thirty-five years of commercial real estate finance experience, having held senior lending and debt resolution/recovery positions in the real estate units of major commercial banks, including The Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corporation, Bankers Trust Company, Irving Trust Company and Chemical Bank.
Mr. Longua remains a member of the Board of Governors of the Mortgage Bankers Association of New York and Chairman of MBA of New York’s Scholarship Foundation and serves as a consultant to Xymax Corporation, the largest property management company in Japan.
He had been a director of Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE: AKR); an adjunct faculty member of NYU’s Stern Business School MBA Program; president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of New York, member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Foreign Investors in U.S. Real Estate (AFIRE), the Japan Society, the Pension Real Estate Association, the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries and the American Real Estate Society. In 2008 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Japanese Association of Real Estate Securitization. He has provided expert witness litigation support in both Federal and New York State courts.
He served three years active duty with the United States Marine Corps and was honorably discharged at the rank of Captain.
Mr. Longua received a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree in Economics from Fairfield University and Masters in Business Administration degree from Dowling College, completed the Harvard University Advanced Management Course, and is a member of the Delta Mu Delta National Honor Society in Business Administration.
