Tony Marano Joins FDU Board of Trustees

By admin • January 18, 2010

TEANECK, N.J., Oct. 20, 2009 – Tony L. Marano, president and CEO of Encelium Technologies of Teaneck, N.J., has been elected to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s (FDU) Board of Trustees for a three-year term. Founded in 1942, FDU is New Jersey’s largest private university offering both undergraduate and graduate programs.

“We look forward to Tony’s contributions to the Board of Trustees,” said FDU President J. Michael Adams. “The energy, determination, integrity and creativity that have made Tony a leader in real estate and technology will also make him an outstanding trustee.”

In January this year, Marano joined Encelium, a leading international manufacturer and supplier of addressable lighting controls for commercial buildings. Founded in 2001, the company has experienced tremendous growth, posting a 200% annual increase in the past two years. Encelium’s hallmark product, the Energy Control System™ (ECS), reduces lighting use and energy costs at a faster rate than other environmental measures.

Marano has held top-level leadership positions throughout his distinguished career. Before leading Encelium, Marano was the chief executive officer of the Americas for Cushman & Wakefield in New York. Previously, he served as the global chief operating officer of Cushman & Wakefield and was the vice president of business services at Lucent Technologies as well as that company’s vice president of global real estate. In addition, Marano held executive positions at AT&T and Bell Laboratories. He was named Corporate Real Estate Executive of the Year in 1999 by Commercial Property News.

In 2008, Marano won a Pinnacle Award, the highest award that FDU bestows upon its alumni, and was the keynote speaker at an FDU Club event that year. He serves on the board of trustees of the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation; has been an active member of Project Sunshine and Institute for Children with Cancer and Blood Disorders; Chilton Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees; Achilles Foundation Board of Trustees; has served on the Board of Directors of the Jacksonville Library Foundation; and the St. John’s Epilepsy Foundation and the Gator Bowl Association. In addition, Marano is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Real Estate Inc., publisher of Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com.

Marano received his B.A. degree from Rutgers University and an MBA in finance from FDU’s College at Florham (1978). In addition, he attended Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the London School of Economics.