Operations Team
Astrit (Tony) Gorana
Chief Operating Officer
Planned Companies’ Operations Team
Our Operations team is available day or night to ensure our clients’ needs are always satisfied. The Ops team handles oversight and supervision of the field associates.
Each region has a dedicated senior management team, which is identified below.
Safet Palevic
Executive Vice President, Northeast Region
Steven DePascale
Vice President, Northeast Region
Steven graduated from Seton Hall University and holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences. He began his corporate career in account management before transitioning into a law enforcement career as a police officer and graduated from the Passaic Country Police Academy. Following his Law enforcement career, he then transitioned into corporate security executive management, overseeing security needs for a global pharmaceutical company based in North Jersey. In addition to his extensive law enforcement and security training, Steve has attended multiple courses in Executive Protection as well.
Albert Kasneci
Vice President, Northeast Region
Reuel Williams
Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Region
Juan Jose Chaves
Vice President, Southern Region
John Fahmy
Executive Vice President
John Fahmy is the Vice President for the western region. Fahmy started his career with Planned Companies as Executive Director for the New York and Connecticut regions, but due to his expertise in relationship building and retention was relocated to the Mid-Atlantic region for the potential growth opportunities for Planned Companies.
His responsibilities include hiring and training new associates, managing client and associate retention, account startups, budgets, and supervising field management. Fahmy’s high energy and business leadership skills contribute to his continued success with PLS and PSS. Previously, Fahmy gained significant skills and success within the hospitality and telecommunication industries.
He began his career while in college as a front desk agent at two of NYC’s top hotels. Later in his career, he was a regional sales manager for one of the largest AT&T resellers. Through this career opportunity, he gained many of the associate retention skills and multi-site management expertise that he has brought to Planned Companies.
Marcos Guerrero
Executive Director, Northeast Region
Besim Dodiq
Executive Director, Northeast Region
Ugo Bellomo
Executive Director, Northeast Region
Ugo has more than 25 years of law enforcement, security, and fraud investigation experience gained throughout his careers as a Corrections Officer, Welfare Fraud Investigator, and as a Police Officer with the Newark Police Department in NJ. He held various positions within the police department, including Robbery/Homicide Detective, as well as being a Task Force Officer with the Federal Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Bureau (ATF). Ugo takes great pride in building strong relationships with property managers and our Planned Companies team members in our Lifestyle (PLS) and Security (PSS) divisions.
Ismet (Izzy) Mehmeti
Executive Director, Northeast Region
Gazi Dabi
Executive Director, Northeast Region
Prior to joining Planned, Gazi worked as a quality control manager for ABM and a manager for a steakhouse in Staten Island.