Joe attended an international boarding school in Switzerland and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1973. His early business career included stints at Swiss Bank Corporation in Basel, Switzerland and Deutsche Bank, in Frankfort, Germany. He then moved to Eastern Kentucky with his wife, Lucy, and worked as a strip miner at Falcon Coal Company, followed by 10 years in the coal export industry.

In 1989 Joe moved to Amagansett, NY and committed himself to the real estate business. In 1992 he was a founding partner of Dunemere Associates, one of the East End's pre-eminent real estate agencies, which was sold to Brown Harris Stevens in 2004. While with Dunemere Joe managed his company's migration to the internet becoming the first area brokerage to develop a world wide web presence. In 2008 he founded Rosehip Partners.

Joe's diverse business experiences lend themselves to the development of Rosehip, a company as much in the information management business, as it is in real estate brokerage.

With Rosehip his mission is to develop an alternative business model that provides superior results to traditional real estate brokerage, using the internet as it's foundation.

James comes to Rosehip Partners with extensive general management, marketing and sales experience in the mobile technology, Internet and real estate space. He is responsible for the product development and strategic direction as well as the day-to-day operations at Rosehip. James has over 15 years experience in business development and management roles in the technology industry, first as a marketing consultant to Cellular One Telecommunications and later with Oracle Software in the U.S. and Latin America, serving as Director of Business Development for the mobile and wireless group, Oraclemobile. James transitioned from technology into Hamptons real estate in 2004, gaining valuable experience as a successful agent at Prudential Douglas Elliman and later Brown Harris Stevens. Recognizing the Internet's power to transform brokerage, he founded Rosehip Partners with like minded, veteran entrepreneur, Joe Kazickas in 2008 and has led the development of Rosehip's multifaceted technical platform. James holds an MBA from the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business as well as a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Vermont. Though he is born and raised in East Hampton, he has lived on three separate continents, is fluent in Spanish and speaks passable French. He has a lovely wife and a young son named William.

Having summered in the Hamptons with her family since childhood, Lisa has developed a unique appreciation and understanding for Hampton's real estate and its distinctive clientele. Lisa views working with Rosehip less as a job and more as a calling and has an instinctive understanding of the individual needs of each person who comes to her in search of the perfect home. Instead of making a deal, Lisa feels more as if she is helping her customers realize a dream, finding the ideal house for each of her customers as well as the ultimate buyer for each seller wishing to pass on their bit of paradise.

After graduating from Emerson College in 1986, Lisa began her sales career at Nine West Footwear, and then Candies Footwear in NYC. After a successful stint in the city, she decided to marry her love for the Hamptons with her knowledge of fine wines and moved permanently to East Hampton. Lisa became a leading sales rep for Lauber Imports, a renowned purveyor of international and domestic wines, managing accounts from Manhattan to Montauk.

In 2003 Lisa helped a friend find the perfect summer rental - and a new passion was born. That year Lisa began at the prominent Hamptons real estate company Dunemere Associates, and continued at Brown Harris Stevens. While there, Lisa assisted Joe Kazickas on many real estate transactions including the sale of the famed Bouvier estate, Lasata, on Further Lane. She easily made the transition with Joe to starting up the Hampton's newest premiere real estate agency - Rosehip. At her new home, Lisa's East End expertise, intuitive nature and outgoing personality are the perfect addition to her Rosehip partners.