Marc Steven Alessi (born July 1976
) is an American attorney and entrepreneur from
Shoreham, New York, who formerly served in the
New York State Assembly
The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits.
The Assem ...
. He currently holds positions as Executive Director of Tesla Science at Wardenclyffe, Executive Director of the Business Incubator Association of New York State, Founder/CEO of SynchroPET,
and attorney at the firm of Campolo, Middleton & McCormick LLP.
Alessi was born in
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, behi ...
, and grew up on Long Island. His father, a union printer, emigrated from Italy at the age of nine, and his mother worked and raised six children.
Alessi graduated from
SUNY Albany in 1998 with a
B.A. in Political Science. He received his
J.D. from
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in 2003 and was admitted to the
New York State Bar Association in 2005. Alessi was of counsel with the law firm Jaspan Schlesinger LLP in
Garden City, New York
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The Incorporated Village of Garden City is primarily located withi ...
, from 2007 to 2015.
Alessi represented the state's 1st district from 2005 to 2010. The district comprised
Brookhaven,
Riverhead,
Southold and
Shelter Island. He was chosen to fill this seat, formerly occupied by
Patricia Acampora, in a
special election
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held on September 13, 2005. He won re-election in 2006 and 2008 but lost his bid for a third full term in November 2010, defeated by Republican
Daniel Losquadro
Daniel P. "Dan" Losquadro (born September 3, 1972) is an American politician who was a member of the New York State Assembly.
Losquadro is a lifelong Suffolk County, New York resident who was raised in Wading River and attended Shoreham-Wading ...
. Prior to his election, Alessi served as the Downstate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs within the Office of the
New York State
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Comptroller
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from 2001 to 2005.
In 2012 Alessi founded and became the CEO of SynchroPET,
a biomedical device company in
Ronkonkoma, New York, that manufactures MRI-compatible PET (Positron Emission Tomography) devices for the small animal research and clinical/human imaging markets.
From June 2015 to the present, Alessi has served as counsel t
Campolo, Middleton & McCormick, LLP a full-service law firm established in 2008 that is currently has four offices across
Long Island, New York
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, with clients that range from global corporations to individuals.
He resides in
Shoreham, New York, with his wife Gretchen and their daughter and two sons.
Election results
* September 2005
special election
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, NYS Assembly, 1st AD
:
* November 2006
general election
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, NYS Assembly, 1st AD
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* November 2008
general election
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, NYS Assembly, 1st AD
:
* November 2010
general election
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, NYS Assembly, 1st AD
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References
External links
Jaspan Schlesinger LLP: Marc S. Alessi
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1976 births
Living people
Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly
Politicians from Brooklyn
People from Shoreham, New York
University at Albany, SUNY alumni
Touro Law Center alumni
21st-century American politicians