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"The team will stay put in downtown Cleveland — right where they belong," he declared. Gilbert figures it's "just a 20-minute flight" from Detroit to Cleveland's downtown airport, or "a two-hour-and- 20-minute car ride" from his Livonia office to Cleveland. However, some changes are planned, such as coming up with a new name for the 20,000-seat Gund Arena that is part of the purchase agreement. A graduate of Southfield-Lathrup High School, and with a communica- dons degree from MSU where he once hosted a cable TV sports talk show, Gilbert spent six months as a TV reporter in Kalamazoo, then got a real estate license and attended Wayne State University's law school in Detroit. In his first year at WSU, in 1985 at age 23, he used $5,000 to found Rock Financial in a shared office suite in Southfield. "The [company] name is short, simple and memorable," he explained. His partners were his brother, Gary, now a movie producer in New York (Garden State, and Lindsay Gross of Franklin. The organization now has more than 2,250 employees, and last year generated more than $400 million in revenue and closed nearly $12 billion in mortgage loans — a rate of one deal every 75 seconds somewhere in the 50 states. The company was cited by Fortune magazine last year as the 12th best place to work in the U.S. In the late 1990s, Rock went public at $10 per share. Then Gilbert sold the company to Intuit, Inc., the California-based maker of market- leading software Quicken and Turbo Tax for $370 million in Intuit stock. Rock shareholders were paid off at $33 a share – more than triple their original investment. In 2002, he and a group of private investors bought Quicken Loans back from Intuit. Memos amorg.info • 313-884-1455 support@thecomputerperson.net from page 47 800 - 767 - 0227 Daniel Levin of Huntington Woods received the David D. Henry Award for leadership, service and academics at winter commence- ment at Wayne State University in Levin Detroit. He addressed the 2,000- student December graduating class. Levin was enrolled in the Honors Program and a member of Beta Gamma Sigma and the Golden Key National Honor Society. He majored in finance in the School of Business Administration. He was vice president in the school's Student Senate and president of the Honors Program social committee. This year, he earned the Dean's Award for outstanding serv- ice in the school. Levin also participated in WSU's Club Hispano, which provides opportu- nities for Spanish language students to engage in conversation in that language and to learn about Latino culture and cuisine. Dr. Mark L. Rosenblum of West Bloomfield, chair of neurosurgery at the Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System, was recently presented with the Charles B. Wilson Award by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Rosenblum Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Rosenblum, founder and chair for the first eight years of the joint Section on Tumors, has been successful in estab- lishing workshops and initiating funding for awards to recognize advances in the field. Lawrence Gadd of Huntington Woods has joined the firm of Strobl Cunningham & Sharp as shareholder. He practices exten- sively in complex Gadd commercial litiga- tion, employment litigation, construction litigation, appel- late matters, white-collar defense work and general business representation. Gary A. Kravitz of Farmington Hills has been elected a member of Dawda,