A true rags to riches business heroine, Dottie Herman is president and CEO of Douglas Elliman, New York City’s largest residential brokerage. She has over 30 years of experience in real estate and is one of the industry’s most successful company owners, purchasing Prudential Long Island Realty in 1989 and merging it with Douglas Elliman in 2003. Her brokerage now has over 6,000 real estate agents in more than 80 offices throughout New York City, Long Island, the Hamptons, Westchester, South Florida, Connecticut, Aspen and Los Angeles.