A Jewish boy who went to a Presbyterian elementary and Quaker high school with our 44th President’s children, Alec grew up in this great nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. After listening to Joe Biden speak at Sidwell’s graduation, he boldly set out for Jesuit Georgetown University, located a full two blocks from the gated community he grew up in. Realizing he’d deprived himself of the opportunity to explore a new city, and tiring of pastels and popped collars, he transferred to Columbia to pursue a degree in economics. His esoteric athletic interests include squash, skiing, tennis, Tae Kwon Do, and skimboarding (like surfing in the wrong direction). He is fluent in a dead language, eats 5 pounds of veggies a day while reading nutrition facts for fun, and has been to 26 countries. He once won a chocolate bar from Mick Jagger for a T-shirt decorating contest on the island Mustique, where he played piano alongside the rocker's daughter in a talent show later that week. He joins Bisnow as a Custom Content Producer, and promises to make your piece even more interesting than this one!

Bienvenido a Miami. Adriano was born and raised in the county of Dade, though his roots hail from the old country of Naples, Italy. Adriano is the Bisnow resident speedwalker, professional espresso drinker and Business Manager of the FL & Charlotte markets. He also manages Dwyane Wade's fan page. (Not really, but it's an aspiration.) With a degree in International Business, Adriano is a citizen of the world having spent time living in Sevilla (Spain), Bern (Switzerland), NYC & Los Angeles... but he knows in his heart that Miami will always be where the players come to play. With experience as a salesman, project manager, marketing manager and tennis professional, he comes to Bisnow ready to CRUSH it.

Birthed in the enormous metropolis of Ruston, Louisiana, Saraf grew up approximately 30 minutes from the Duck Dynasty Robertson family and yet has never held a gun in her life. She somehow managed to escape unscathed to West Philadelphia, where she was born and raised for the next four years (albeit in the cozy UPenn bubble). Thinking she could do science, she started out bright-eyed and bushy-tailed... and premed. Failing chemistry forced her to switch over to a double major in English and History, and somewhere along the way she rediscovered writing (hence why she's joining Bisnow), discovered feminism, and nursed a destructively obsessive cinephilia. Although she dearly misses Wawa and its 24/7 access to customizable buffalo chicken subs, she's thrilled to become the living embodiment of the rom-com that every mid-2000s Kate Hudson movie has convinced her is life in NYC. In her spare time, Saraf likes to indulge her inner masochist by marathoning horror movies, mainlining cheese and jars of Nutella (not always separately), and secretly writing down weird things people say around her to use in her screenplay.

Originally born in Russia, Lana had to give up her childhood aspirations of a career in espionage (Anna Chapman eat your heart out) after her family immigrated to Chicago. It seems, however, that the harsh winter climates were nothing compared to the Siberian tundras where she grew up (which is a nice way of saying we’re all wimps). Seeking some true cold, she shipped off to study at the University of Michigan, where warm weather comes around as often as Santa Claus. Her studies — and penchant for snow — carried her further east, where she completed her master's degree at NYU. Aside from gymnastics and other stereotypical Eastern European sports (like ice fishing and writing 8,000 page novels), Lana spends plenty of quality time on her computer checking emails in the heated indoors, which makes her around-the-clock compulsiveness a great fit for the team. We hope she doesn't melt if we ever send her south of Delaware.