2009 NETWORKING® MAGAZINE’S DAVID AWARD HONOREE.

ROBERT PASCUCCI

President, Jobco Incorporated

A Professional Engineer, Attorney and Licensed Real Estate Broker, Robert M. Pascucci, president of Jobco, Incorporated, has been the driving force behind the company’s significant expansion and growth into one of the leading construction, development and real estate management firms in the Northeast. Jobco’s expertise includes the construction of schools, churches, commercial buildings, medical and hospital facilities, and single and multi-family housing units.
Pascucci notes that in addition to working as a private developer, Jobco has worked on federal, state and local government-assisted housing projects. Through the New York City Housing Partnership, Jobco constructed first-time home buyer, one-, two- and three-family developments in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. Jobco has constructed HUD projects and completed projects for New York State’s low-income housing program.
“Jobco assisted the City of Yonkers in establishing a nonprofit organization, the Yonkers Housing Development Fund Company, which we modeled on the New York City Housing Partnership,” says Pascucci. Working with the Fund in a public-private venture relationship, Jobco is constructing 62 median income, two-family homes. With the Glen Cove Housing Authority, Jobco looks forward to partnering on a unique 60-unit project, which will combine market rate housing, first-time home buyer housing and below-median income for sale housing. “We’re at the stage where we are gathering the funding to make it happen.”
“There’s nothing like the joy a family gets when they move into home ownership for the first time,” says Pascucci. “It shapes their lives.” Jobco takes pride in having constructed or renovated over 10,000 units of housing in the New York tri-state area.
Noting that senior citizens are the fastest growing demographic in the Northeast, Pascucci says Jobco built one of the first Golden Age senior citizen condominiums in the Town of North Hempstead—Port Harbor—in the mid 1980s, and more recently, the 250-unit Mill Pond Acres Community in Port Washington. In addition, Jobco constructed Woodbury Meadows with the Town of Oyster Bay, and senior condos in northern New Jersey and Westchester.
With a desire to follow in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps as a builder, Pascucci attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, earning a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He joined the well-known builder, HRH Construction, working on a project in the Bronx and learning the industry “from the ground up.” At the time, his boss’s frustration with his lawyers’ lack of engineering and construction knowledge nurtured a seed in Pascucci, who then applied for and was accepted to St. John’s School of Law, where he attended classes at night.
“I’m probably one of a few people who went to law school thinking he might be a construction lawyer,” Pascucci remarks. During law school, he worked for the Glen Cove Community Development Agency, before joining the prestigious law firm of Max E. Greenberg, Cantor & Reiss. Six months into the profession, Pascucci was approached by Mike Puntillo, founder of Jobco, whom he had met while working at the Community Development Agency. Puntillo offered him a job in construction; he hesitated, but six months later, joined the Jobco firm.
Twenty-eight years later, Pascucci oversees all aspects of construction, development and residential property management operations; employees 20 people in the home office in Great Neck, and another 20 on-site employees. “It’s very much like family,” says Pascucci, who has had employees on the job for 20, 25 and 30 years, not losing a day of work before retiring. Under his management, Jobco has twice expanded its office space.
“I’ve had a good career, and enjoyed its progression,” remarks Pascucci, a man of many interests. “I have two ideals,” he continues, “supporting the communities in which I live and work, and giving special attention to the needs of children.”
During his early career in the Bronx, Pascucci became a member of the board of directors of the Bronx Boys and Girls Club, a division of the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club in Manhattan. “I saw the positive impact that the club had on children from inner City neighborhoods, and the respect they gained for themselves and others.” Today, he is an active member of the Glen Cove Boys and Girls Club Board of Managers, serving as vice president. He also sits on the Facilities Committee, which is engaged in a building improvements campaign. In 2007, he offered his home as the setting for the Club’s annual dinner, hosting a couple of hundred attendees.
When he was asked to join the AHRC Foundation board, he declares, “There was no way I could say no.” Pascucci knows first-hand of this nonprofit’s services, as his sister, who is developmentally disabled, lives in an AHRC group home in Glen Cove. He was also the 2006 Foundation Rose Ball Leadership Award recipient, sharing the evening’s honors with the Humanitarian Award recipient, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Pascucci is an active member of the World Presidents Organization (WPO). He had originally joined the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), a peer group founded for individuals who had become presidents of their companies before the age of 40 (those companies are also required to have a certain sales volume and number of employees). After 50, members “graduate” to the WPO. A current member of the Metro New York chapter, Pascucci has continued to participate with his family in week-long international events with featured guest lectures. “It’s been wonderful,” he says. “My children have traveled the four corners of the world, learning about the cultures of the host cities.” Pascucci is affiliated with the American Bar Association, National Society of Professional Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, and served for eight years as a trustee of the Green Vale School, where his sons attended.
Pascucci and his wife Lisa Puntillo live in Glen Cove with their sons Rob, a student at Ithaca College, and Will, a student at Portledge School. Lisa has an MBA in finance from New York University and works as a financial advisor to high net-worth individuals. Pascucci is the father of Matthew of Glen Cove, and Brian of Virginia, who with his wife Jennifer brought him his first grandchild, Liam. A self-proclaimed “lousy golfer and good skier,” he decided at age 40 to learn how to ice skate and play hockey, and took up riding a motorcycle. He says he soon quit the motorcycle, but continued skating and hockey for 15 years before “hanging up my skates.”

NETWORKING® January 2009