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Pelletier of Kirk&Company joins faculty at Salve Regina University

Newport, RI Brett Pelletier, COO of Kirk&Company: Real Estate Counselors has been appointed to the Business and Economics faculty at Salve Regina University. 

David Kirk, said, “It’s a very exciting time to be studying financial and capital markets and it will be exciting to work with and engage with students and help them to grow in their understanding of financial and real estate markets.” 

Salve Regina University is a private liberal arts university located on an 80-acre campus in the heart of historic Newport. Salve Regina was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1934 and has grown to a community of more than 2,700 undergraduate and graduate students who proudly carry forward the mercy mission in their personal and professional lives.

Pelletier earned a bachelor of science in finance from Bentley College, an ALM in finance from the Harvard University Extension School, and an MBA from Bryant University. He is a member of the Counselors of Real Estate, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a designated member of the MBREA, an MAI Candidate of the Appraisal Institute, and a member of the National Housing and Rehabilitation Association. Pelletier is a member of Lambda Alpha International, the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations, the Boston Economic Club, and is a contributing writer to the New England Real Estate Journal.

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