Ezequiel D. Gherscovici is Co-CEO of ERE, a real estate brokerage and investment firm with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Maui, and Oahu. He helps set the company’s strategic direction, oversees its operations, guides corporate decision-making, and advances its purpose-driven commitment to responsible, sustainable real estate investment and management.
He is also Co-Founder of Healthy Buildings LLC and Spine Principles LLC, two ventures dedicated to improving the relationship between the built environment, human health, and hospitality. Their work focuses on advancing the understanding of how indoor environmental quality affects occupants of commercial, residential, public, and hospitality properties, and on developing, testing, and implementing innovative solutions that enhance health, wellness, and quality of life. Drawing on Ezequiel’s experience in physical therapy and hospitality, Healthy Buildings and Spine Principles are focused specifically on creating a luxury hospitality experience for people living with musculoskeletal disorders.
This work is complemented by the development of a luxury regenerative farm estate and agritourism destination in Ha‘ikū, Maui. Conceived as a productive farm, educational setting, and distinctive hospitality destination, the estate will produce premium food, host educational experiences, preserve the property’s natural beauty, and contribute to the surrounding community.
The estate is being developed as a model for sustainable and resilient land stewardship. Its comprehensive water-management strategy incorporates rainwater catchment and 43,000 gallons of storage capacity; flushing and filtration systems; greywater reuse; property-wide drip irrigation; bioswales and rain gardens; permeable surfaces; landscaped overflow channels; retention and detention systems; vegetated barriers; and bioengineering techniques for flood and erosion control.
Fire-resilience measures include a 100-foot defensible-space strategy around the property perimeter; a 30-foot “lean, clean, and green” immediate zone; Class A fire-rated roofing and construction materials; ember-resistant vents and screens; exterior water outlets approximately every 100 feet; two access points connected by a loop drive; a designated fire-apparatus turnaround area; fire-resistant landscaping; strategically located fire-extinguisher stations; and a rooftop sprinkler system.
The estate’s hurricane-resilience strategy includes Category 5 wind-rated construction, impact-rated windows and doors, metal roofing with a high roof pitch, anchored buildings and tanks, elevated electrical and critical systems, continuous structural load paths, backup power, secure storage for water, food, and medical supplies, and emergency communications systems.
Its broader sustainability strategy combines solar photovoltaic generation and battery storage, solar hot-water systems, composting and soil-building practices, food forests and orchards, a hydroponic greenhouse, aquaponics, a chicken coop and egg-production program, native planting and habitat restoration, low-impact development practices, and designated no-mow areas.
Ezequiel earned a Master of Management in Hospitality from the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration within Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business, as well as an Advanced Certificate for Executives from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He holds both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Physiotherapy from Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is a Diplomate in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy through the McKenzie Institute International in New Zealand. He has also completed executive education programs at Harvard University, MIT, and Cornell University, with concentrations in technology and innovation, real estate and finance, management and leadership, sustainability, and hospitality.
Before turning his full attention to real estate, the built environment, and hospitality, Ezequiel practiced as a physical therapist for more than 20 years across the public and private sectors in Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. In 2019, he concluded his clinical practice to focus on understanding and improving the effects of indoor environmental quality and the built environment on human health.
A longtime advocate for improving the management of musculoskeletal conditions worldwide, Ezequiel co-founded the McKenzie Institute International’s Public Health Committee and developed its first public-health workshop for faculty members. In collaboration with the Institute, he also organized the first MDT Part A course within its International Postgraduate Education Program for Spanish-speaking healthcare professionals. This initiative expanded access to MDT education for clinicians from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela. He also co-founded the McKenzie Institute International–Argentina Branch and helped introduce the inaugural MDT Part A course in Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Spain.
Ezequiel currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the McKenzie Institute International and is a member of the North American Spine Society’s Section on Interdisciplinary Spine. His previous leadership and advisory roles include President of the McKenzie Institute Argentina–Center for Postgraduate Study in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy, member of the North American Spine Society’s Exercise Committee, and member of the Clinical and Scientific Advisory Board of World Spine Care, a multinational nonprofit organization serving underserved communities around the world.
An international speaker and published author, Ezequiel shares research globally on the diagnosis, treatment, and outcome assessment of musculoskeletal conditions. His work also focuses heavily on healthy building determinants and their direct impact on human health.
