Robert Zanlungo

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Age: 37

Title: Branch Partner and Sr. Loan Officer

Company: Primary Residential Mortgage Inc.

Location: Glastonbury

Hometown: Glastonbury

College: Marymount University

Bio

As a branch partner and senior loan officer at the Glastonbury branch of Primary Residential Mortgage, Bob Zanlungo works every day to help people realize the dream of homeownership. He is inspired and motivated by the legacy of his friend, mentor and the former owner of the Glastonbury branch, Michael J. Newhouse, who passed away after a courageous battle with cancer in 2013.

Prior to moving back to Connecticut and entering the mortgage business in early 2006, Zanlungo lived in Arlington, Va. and worked in Washington, D.C. where he was a writer for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, working at the White House until the change of administration on Jan. 20, 2001. He then ran a successful fundraising program at the Democratic National Committee for Chairman Terry McAuliffe, who is currently the governor of Virginia.

Zanlungo is a member of the Glastonbury Rotary Club and its immediate past president. He is also a member of the Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce and former chamber ambassador, former chairman of the Glastonbury Democratic Town Committee, and was an elected member of the Glastonbury Town Council from 2009-2011.

He was born in Manchester, grew up in Eastford and now resides in Glastonbury.

Q&A

At what age did you decide what you wanted to do with your career? In first grade when Ms. Lucy went around the room and asked what we wanted to be when we grew up, I assure you that I didn't raise my hand and say “I want to be a mortgage banker!” I was always interested in current events and politics and remember my parents watching the “CBS Evening News” every night, always tuning in to watch the presidential debates every four years or talking about whatever the issues of the day were with friends and family. While being raised in a household that was tuned in to current events, my parents instilled in me the need to give back and always be grateful. To those whom much is given, much is expected, and you need to live your life with purpose. Doing what I do today gives me the chance to do a little of all of that.

If you could design a bumper sticker with your advice to the world, what would it say? My bumper sticker would say, 'What Could Go Wrong?' This has to be one of my favorite sayings. I say it enough that my friends laugh at me and say that I'm taunting fate. It's certainly not a phrase for the faint of heart. Even if you are being pelted with lemons you can manage to make a little lemonade.