James Spano
James Spano comes from a financial and insurance background. For over 25 years Mr. Spano has served as President and CEO of The Spano Agency, a firm that specializes in creative solutions to Employee Benefit Plans.  Mr Spano served as President as well as Senior Financial Planner advising high net worth individuals who typically owned or managed the firms for which The Spano Agency managed their pension or group benefit plans. Mr. Spano is a recognized expert in the both the financial and insurance industry holding some of the highest accreditations one can achieve and has been called upon regularly in various legal cases involving both Financial Planning and Employee Benefit issues. For the last dozen years Mr. Spano has also been a real estate investor and advisor to the family business and in 2004 took a lead role as a Managing Director. Mr. Spano has primary responsibility for all out of state/country projects as well as all financing on all projects.  Mr Spano is also devotes much of his free time to charitable endeavors to include being a member of the Board of Directors for The Cerebral Palsy Association of New Jersey, First President and founding member of the Hillsborough Kiwanis Club, and several other charitable organizations. Mr. Spano has four wonderful children Elanna 31  and mother of his grandson Hunter age 11, James Jr. 26 and graduate with a Bachelor’s degree from Paul Smith College, Kenneth 25 and graduate of McDonough Business School at Georgetown University, and Kimberly 20 and Mr. Spano’s inspiration.
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Joseph Spano
Joseph Spano comes from an accounting background by professional designation having earned a Bachelors degree at Rider University and subsequently achieving the distinction of becoming a Certified Public Accountant in 1979 as an auditor with Price Waterhouse.  In 1981, Joe joined the family’s fashion accessory business converting it from a distribution business to a design and development business producing all of its product in the Far East. Having grown it exponentially, he ultimately sold the company in 2005 to a consortium of private equity firms.  He also joined the family real estate business in 2000 and is currently a Managing Director with responsibility for strategic direction and oversight of all aspects of the business with a focus on the larger local projects.  Mr. Spano’s strong accounting background and extensive experience as CEO of one of the largest companies in that industry has provided Mr. Spano with the skills and insight to “look around the corner” and his judgment permeates every major decision of the business. Aside from his business ventures, Joe is a founding member of The Spano Family Charitable Foundation, an EMT with Freehold First Aid and Rescue Squad, an honorary board member of the  Veterans of the Vietnam War and Veterans Coalition, and active member of several other professional and civic organizations. Joe and his wife of 27 years, Diane, have 3 children – Matthew, a CPA in Charlotte, Steven, a college student and EMS specialist and Andrew, now serving with the United States Marine Corps.
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Gary Mangino
Gary Mangino brings to the organization 30+ years of experience in the building materials construction industries.  He credits his strong tenacity and work ethic to his grandmother who sat at the helm of B&M Lumber throughout his formative years and provided him incredible mentorship.  It's that tenacity that provides him the perseverance to succeed as an accomplished development entitlement expert.  Gary handles most of the organization's zoning, planning, and permit approval processes.  With 26 years of direct real estate development expertise and success, Gary ensures every project under consideration will be thoroughly analyzed as to its governmental entitlement requirements and their impact on creating additional value, or their detriment.  Gary is married to his lovely wife Debbie for 15 years and attributes his insatiable appetite to create multigenerational success to his dream of having his two daughters Antonia age 11 and Gianna age 8 join him in his business just as he was given the opportunity to understudy his Grandmother from the age of 12 with the family lumber business of years past.
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Tony Psomas
Our Chief Financial Officer, Tony brings to Spano Partners over 30 years of financial expertise developed with “blue chip” organizations such as General Electric and Merck.  Tony holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton Graduate Division of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Lafayette College, in addition to being a Certified Management Accountant.  Tony and his wife, Maureen, presently have the pleasure of paying college tuitions for their son, Gregory, and daughter, Colleen. 
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Mary Spano Gleckner
Mary entered the family business almost 30 years ago. Along with her late father, Joseph Spano Sr., they leveraged the success’ of the families import business investing in real estate.  With much early success, they continued to create business opportunities in real estate from the creation of a real estate based lending company, a real estate acquisition and raw land development company, which is the basis of the business that exists today. Building on that early success, along with the help of her brothers and associates, they have created an organization that continues to grow exponentially and will provide opportunities for future generations. Mary is an active volunteer for the Jersey Coast Chapter of the American Red Cross and is actively involved in many other philanthropic endeavors.
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Thomas Gleckner
Tom Gleckner comes to the organization with a degree in management from the University of Scranton.  His work history includes 18 years in the tire industry managing 500,000 sf facility.  Having joined the Spano Family business’ in 2000, his management and personnel skills have contributed to the growth and stability of the organization. His transition into the Real Estate business has resulted in the creation of the Property Management Division responsible for all corporate real estate assets.  Currently Tom has primary responsibility for all land use and property management responsibilities of the company.
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Tom Spano
Tom Spano also comes from an accounting background having earned a Bachelor’s degree from Penn State in accounting. Tom then worked briefly in the corporate accounting field before joining the family import and distribution business early in his career where he supervised the distribution department where he was responsible for as many as 40 employees in his department. Tom Spano has since transitioned into the Technology Officer of the company providing management with the tools and technology to efficiently manage all aspects of the business. His experience as a staff manager for the family business has given him the skills and temperament to maintain a strong and adhesive group management style that has grown closer and stronger through his judgment, trust, and insight, all of which has enabled quick and effective resolution when necessary. He has become a proficient mediator and proactively addresses and resolves issues prior to becoming impairments to the proper functioning of the business.
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Heather Lomurro
Heather, a graduate of Drexel University with an MBA in finance, also attended Stockton College where she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in finance, summa cum laude.  She also comes from an accounting background previously working in mutual fund accounting.  Heather and her husband Jonathan enjoy traveling and trying to spend as much of their free time outdoors as possible.
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