Real estate professional David Kushner of Cresskill, New Jersey, heads Paradigm Capital Group as president. David Kushner, also a philanthropist, outdoorsman, and golfer, has participated in charitable tournaments at Cresskill-area venues, including the Alpine Country Club.Located in Demarest, New Jersey, the Alpine Country Club comprises 200 acres in northern Bergen County. Established nearly a century ago, the club offers a golf course that was designed by noted course architect A. W. Tillinghast. In the first half of the 20th century, the “Golden Age” of golf course design, Tillinghast created a number of notable courses, including one he called “Aldecress” on the site of the present-day Alpine Country Club. This name honored the major communities that surround the course: Alpine, Demarest, and Cresskill.Many golfers today refer to the club’s highly challenging course as a rare hidden gem. Recent years have seen the unfolding of a plan to restore the course to the designer’s original concept and preserve its environment.
With more than a decade of experience in mortgage financing, David Kushner of Cresskill, New Jersey, is the president of Paradigm Capital Group. Having facilitated loan financing from Cresskill all the way south to his former home of Florida and beyond, David Kushner maintains membership in professional associations including the Mortgage Bankers Association of Florida (MBAF). MBAF has a Future Leaders Program that offers comprehensive leadership training to junior real estate associates with at least three years of experience. To prepare the next generation of real estate-industry leaders, the MBAF training program consists of four parts: a legislative day, a conference, a state convention, and college coursework. The legislative day gives participants a window into how lawmakers affect the mortgage industry. The conference offers them the opportunity to join the planning committee of a major event as well as learn from the speakers. Networking with peers and deepening industry knowledge in a collaborative atmosphere is the aim of the annual state convention. Lastly, participants take two college-level business courses to solidify their learning and leadership experience.
A resident of Cresskill, New Jersey, David Kushner serves as president of Paradigm Capital Group, a firm he co-founded in 1989. Paradigm works with a variety of commercial clients to supply bridge mortgage and other loans. David & Nanci Kushner’s philanthropy in his Cresskill community and beyond includes his long-standing support of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which funds live-saving investigations into the causes and treatments of type 1 diabetes in children and adults.In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas abruptly ceases to manufacture its own insulin, and patients become dependent on daily blood-sugar-level tests and injections or infusions. Management of the condition then becomes a daily battle.Among the exciting and innovative projects funded by the JDRF is research into the creation of an artificial pancreas is. This work has yielded precursor systems that can monitor a patient’s blood glucose levels and respond by automatically suspending infusions of insulin as needed. The JDRF has continued to devote its efforts to expand this work into the development of sophisticated devices that can measure glucose levels and deliver a faster-acting form of insulin.In 2016, the organization celebrated the Food and Drug Administration’s approval for the artificial pancreas marketed as the Medtronic MiniMed 670G. The device, which is the size of a cell phone, consists of a subdermal glucose meter, along with an insulin pump that is strapped to the patient’s body and is capable of delivering correct dosages using a catheter and patch.
