Arthur P. Becker

In 1986, Becker started his business career as a stockbroker at Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., later becoming a director at the company. By the early 2000s, Becker began buying technology companies through ClearBlue Technologies and its parent investment fund, Atlantic Investors. In 2002, Becker purchased a controlling stake in NaviSite, a web hosting company. He was the company's chief executive officer until 2010 after which NaviSite was sold to Time Warner Cable for $230 million. In 2012, Becker joined the digital magazine newsstand platform Zinio as the company's chairman and chief executive officer until moving into the real estate business. By March 2017, Becker announced a redesign of the eight-unit apartment building on 465 Washington Street in Tribeca. ==Personal life==

In 1989, Becker married Vera Wang in an interfaith Baptist and Jewish ceremony. They resided in Manhattan with their two adopted daughters: Cecilia (born 1990) and Josephine (born 1993). In July 2012, Vera Wang Co. announced that the couple had separated. The separation was amicable. ==References==