NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—From cleaning windows to mowing lawns at a young age to make extra pocket change, Steve Rosanksy has always been an entrepreneur at heart.
The current Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce president and former city councilman also worked when he was just 14 at his family’s Baskin Robbins store scooping ice cream at a suburban Los Angeles mall.
At 27, he founded his own real estate business and in the early 2000s—with his wife—a Dreyer’s ice cream shop and Togo’s sandwich restaurant.
The couple ran their businesses from the ground up—experiences that would nearly a decade later lead Rosansky, now 62, to serve on the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce.
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