Meet Our Team

Gerard S. Trimboli - Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Trimboli is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer at American Auctions, Liquidations, Appraisals, Inc. (American), a global leader in asset management, live & timed/online auctions, commercial collections and professional valuation services for the surplus equipment, inventory and real estate marketplace. Decades ago at American’s time of inception, American focused on auctions, liquidations and appraisal services for small business to Fortune 500 companies. After establishing a strong regional presence, Mr. Trimboli recognized the opportunity to become a national full spectrum provider to institutions and agencies of total asset recovery and liquidation options, and began expanding both the scope of business services as well as the geographical footprint.

Today, as CEO, Mr. Trimboli has overall responsibility for the corporate strategy and performance for the business, which has operations domestically and internationally. Mr. Trimboli and his management team have been dedicated to ensuring that American builds on its global leadership position, by delivering exceptional services and products to customers worldwide. Today, American has a national as well as international network of buyers and sellers and a comprehensive recovery, remarketing and auction capability. It serves hundreds of institutional as well as private clients, including several Fortune 500 Companies located across the country.

In addition, under Mr. Trimboli’s visionary leadership, American has expanded the Company’s capabilities even further by launching the company’s comprehensive technology platform that allows for timed/online auctions. With this enhancement, American is now able to provide a level of speed, transparency and professionalism that will revolutionize the remarketing and auction industries.

Mr. Trimboli is a licensed auctioneer and certified appraiser who attended the Missouri Auction School and the Certified Appraisers Guild of America and has personally conducted 1,000’s of public, private and bankruptcy auctions and appraisals worldwide. In addition, Mr. Trimboli provides expert witness testimony for various courts in various fields, and he is deeply involved in local and regional philanthropic work.

Daniel Farenga – Senior Vice President Assets Management

Mr. Farenga currently heads American’s asset recovery and remarketing arm, directing and coordinating all resources required to recover and remarketing client assets.

Mr. Farenga has 30+ years of experience in the credit collections and remarketing arena. Mr. Farenga began his career in the mid 70s primarily focused on collections, and ran an office of 26 full time collections personnel out of Chicago. Subsequent to that, Mr. Farenga became the national credit collections manager for a Large national beauty supply company headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

From there Mr. Farenga became the Credit & Collections manager for a major leasing company that had nationally distributed portfolio of assets that required recovery and remarketing on a steady and constant basis. In 1991, Mr. Farenga decided to join forces with American to expand its product offering and establish a national recovery and remarketing operation.

To date, under Mr. Farenga and Mr. Trimboli’s direction, American has established hundreds of institutional, private and governmental clients who utilize their national recovery capability, and unparalleled remarketing services.

Paula Manno – Administrative Assistant

Mrs. Manno is a skilled administrative assistant who joined our team over a decade ago. As our Administrative Assistant, Mrs. Manno's duties include assisting American's executive staff with contracts, meetings, schedule's, as well as customer service and relations.

Mrs. Manno's previous employment was with Chase Manhattan Bank and Xerox. Her duties there included customer service and office management.

We at American Auctions, Liquidations, Appraisals, Inc. are very pleased to have Mrs. Manno as a team member and we are confident you will find her service to be stellar.

Sharmila Amico – Chief Operating Officer

Mrs. Amico is a key member of American’s strategic marketing and operating team, focusing on building out the company’s operational infrastructure and implementing its new technology platform to support planned short and long term growth as well as building and implementing all operational processes and documentation, and Managing the Sales and Marketing function for the Company.

Mrs. Amico previously served as the Director of Acquisitions and Investments for a NASDAQ listed company. During her 8 year tenure, Mrs. Amico managed the resources and activity of over $150 million of investment capital deployed through the company’s 15 venture capital funds located around the country.

In addition, Mrs. Amico co-founded a New York based alternative finance company serving the commercial market, and is the founder and Principal of private consulting company that focuses on implementing sales and operational strategies within the mid sized business, medical and healthcare sectors.

Mrs. Amico began her career at Credit Suisse in their financial products division as risk analyst. Mrs. Amico graduated Cum Laude with Bachelors in Finance, and has also received her MBAs in Finance and in Organizational Management, with honors, from Hofstra University in New York.

David F. Chinitz– Vice President Real Estate Division North America/Broker

Mr. Chinitz, Vice President of American’s North America Real Estate Division has been part of the commercial and industrial real estate community since 1987. Mr. Chinitz has completed over 1,000 commercial real estate transactions while serving with some of the largest brokerage houses.

Mr. Chinitz, an alumnus of Albany State University, was voted commercial broker of the year in 1992 by his peers for completing some of the largest transactions. In 2006, Mr. Chinitz was honored by Long Island Business News for the largest real estate transaction that year, which was the sale of five buildings totaling 340,000 square feet.

Mr. Chinitz’s clients include Nestle, Allied Signal Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, FDIC, Ryder Transportation Systems, Honeywell Corp., Mestek, Inc., Chemed Corp, RXR and Suffolk County Water Authority.

Mr. Chinitz serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Developmental Disabilities in Woodbury, New York. In addition, Mr. Chinitz was elected to the Board of Directors of the Commercial Industrial Brokers Society (CIBS) and chairs the education and activities committees.

Mr. Chinitz’s decades of commercial real estate experience in addition to a decade in business management has enabled him to be of great value to American and provide the most professional services for American’s clients.

David E. Dukawicz – National Sales Consultant

Mr. Dukawicz is a highly skilled sales person and well versed in internet operations. In addition, Mr. Dukawicz has decades of experience with customer service and relations. As our National Sales Consultant his duties include our domestic & international internet sales as well as customer service and relations.

Mr. Dukawicz' previous experiences included owning and operating six restaurants in the southeast and employing over 60 people. We at American Auctions, Liquidations, Appraisals, Inc. are pleased to have Mr. Dukawicz as a team member and we are confident you will find his attention to detail and customer service to be stellar.