David Grossman has joined the staff of Quincy-based commercial real estate firm The Grossman Cos.

His primary responsibilities will be to source new acquisitions, originate lending opportunities via its affiliate, First Boston Capital Partners, and asset management of the company’s portfolio.

Grossman is the fifth generation Grossman family member to be involved in the business. It was his great-great-grandfather Louis who fled Czarist Russia in 1890 and started a salvage business that became the lumber and building materials business, according to the company. After that company was sold in 1969, David’s grandfather, Morton, launched the real estate company, which David’s father Louis joined in 1976.  

Grossman most recently was vice president of acquisitions at Louis Dreyfus Property Group in New York City, which he joined in 2007. Previous to that, he worked for five years in Wells Fargo Bank’s real estate merchant banking group in New York, Washington, D.C. and Boston.

The Grossman Cos. owns and manages 2 million square feet of commercial property, mostly in Greater Boston.