Executive Suite: Mark Portnoy, Syosset
Quick ReadMark Portnoy joined his late father Murray, a former union organizer who had started a firm that represents management. It is now Portnoy, Messinger, Pearl & Associates of Syosset.
Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | Mark Portnoy, president of Portnoy, Messinger, Pearl & Associates, a human resources consulting firm, with his mother Harriette, 87, who answers the phones in the office because she doesn't believe people should get voice mail. (Nov. 10, 2011)
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Mark Portnoy joshes that when he received his doctoral degree in philosophy he saw two career avenues open to himself: drive a taxi or work for his father. Portnoy, then in his late 20s, opted for the latter.
He signed on board with his late father, Murray Portnoy, a union organizer who switched to the management side of the table in 1964 when he founded what has become Syosset-based Portnoy,...
