Salvatore J. Zizza is Founder and President of Zizza & Associates. Mr. Zizza has held various positions in both private and public companies throughout his career. He is the Founder and President of Bergen Cove Realty, a family-held corporation with substantial holdings in real estate, primarily residential. He is currently a Director of Bion Environmental Technologies, a provider of advanced livestock waste treatment technology, a position he assumed in 2023. Mr. Zizza also currently serves as Chairman of Trans-Lux Corporation, a full-service provider of integrated multimedia systems, and has been a Director since 2009. Since 2014, he has served as an advisor to Maverick Real Estate Partners, a private equity fund manager that invests in commercial real estate credit, since 2014.

From 2003 to 2018, Mr. Zizza was Chairman of Bethlehem Advanced Materials (“BAM”), a designer and manufacturer of high-temperature furnaces for sale and for its own use in the processing of specialty carbon, graphite, and ceramic materials for semiconductor and aerospace applications. He was Chairman of Metropolitan Paper and Recycling from 2006 to 2014. Prior to Metropolitan, Mr. Zizza was Chairman and CEO of Hallmark Electric, an electrical parts distributor in the New York area, from 1998 to 2007. Mr. Zizza bought NICO Construction Company in 1978 and was President and CFO until 1985, when NICO merged with The LVI Group, a NYSE listed company. During his tenure at NICO, Mr. Zizza grew the business into the largest interior construction firm in the United States, with over 3,000 employees and $850M in revenues. Prior to buying NICO, Mr. Zizza was an independent financial consultant and had been a lending officer of Chemical Bank.

Mr. Zizza is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York, The Columbus Club, and the New York Athletic Club. He serves on the board of: The Gabelli Asset Fund, The Gabelli Convertible Income & Securities Fund, The Gabelli Dividend & Income Trust, The Gabelli Enterprise Mergers & Acquisition Fund, The GDL Fund, GAMCO Global Series Fund, GAMCO Gold Fund, GAMCO Growth Fund, and the GAMCO Westwood Series Funds.

Mr. Zizza received an MBA from St. John’s University, and a BS in Political Science also from St. John’s University. In 2007, he received an honorary Doctor of Commercial Sciences degree from St. John’s University.