2009 and 2010 were record years for New York-based Distinguished Programs Group, a program manager specializing in insurance for the real estate sector

The milestones, however, were not the result of timing—coming right after the height of a global financial crisis partially fueled by a bursting real estate bubble, according to CEO Jeremy Hitzig.

Instead, he attributes his firm's ability to prosper through recent tough times to a change in strategy at Distinguished's program-administration (PA) operations and to explosive growth in a separate operating subsidiary known as ReSource Pro—a remote-staffing company based in New York and Quindao, China.

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