To provide a forum that encourages and promotes a healthy business-to-University and business-to-business relationship.

To provide the University a continuous source of consulting, training, advising, and financial support from the business community.

To develop the availability and use of the University as an educational and consulting resource to the community.

To facilitate the education, training, and hiring of graduates by the business community.

To provide support through fund raising for Leon Hess Business School initiatives.

One of the aims in fulfilling the mission is to stimulate an ongoing relationship between the faculty and business, thereby maximizing the utilization of both as a resource to assist the other.

OFFICERS:

• Jeana Piscatelli
  Vice President, NE Region
  Wells Fargo Bank, NY
  Chair
• Richard Ricciardi
  President
  Ricciardi Consulting, LLC
  Vice Chair
• Wayne Tessler
  CPA
  Amper, Politziner & Mattia
  Treasurer

MEMBERS:

• John A. Aiello
  Attorney
  Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
• Sonny Arora
  President & CEO
  Action Group Companies
• Suzanne Barba
  Vice President of Asset Management
  J.P. Morgan
• Glenn Bellomy
  CPA
  WithumSmith + Brown, PC
• Jim Callandrillo
  Chief Research and Operations Officer
  GFK Healthcare
• Donald Cowan
  CPA
  Cowan Gunteski & Co., P.A.
• William J. Egan III
  Financial Services Representative
  Egan Financial Group, Inc.
• James Ferris, PE
  Vice President
  PMK Group (Retired)
• Donna Foxman
  CPA
• Karl Gordinier, Jr.
  Gordinier Research Management
• Solomon Greenspan
  Partner
  J.H. Cohn, LLP
• Charles Harris
  CPA
  Price Waterhouse Coopers, LLP
• Sheldon S. Horowitz
  President
  Safe Harbour Group
• Deborah Mannix
  Financial Advisor/Financial Planning Associate
  Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
• Lou Miceli
  Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
  Commvault
• Gloria Nilson
  Executive Vice President
  Gloria Nilson Realtors/GMAC
• Gary Puma
  President & CEO
  Springpoint Senior Living, Inc.
• Susan Rajhel
  Executive Director - Business Risk Services
  Ernst & Young LLP
• Jennifer Thiel
  CPA
  Family Office
• William Thomas
  Principal, TI/Information Management
  Deloitte Consulting LLP
• Gerald Tofani
  Vice President for Finance
  Monmouth Medical
• Michelle Toto
  Vice President and Treasurer
  PKM Panel Systems Corporation
• James Vaccaro
  EVP and COO
  Springpoint Senior Living, Inc.
• Ross Zimmerman
  SVP/Managing Director
  Two River Community Bank

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS:

• Christopher Deresz
  Channel Manager, Backup and Recovery Systems Division
  EMC
• Phil Dunn
  Vice President/Commercial Risk
  Aon Risk Solutions
• Beau G. Howard, MBA
  Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

IN MEMORIUM

• Joseph Adelhardt (2010)

STAFF:

• Donald Moliver, PhD
  Dean
  Leon Hess Business School
• Gilda Agacer, PhD
  Associate Dean
  Leon Hess Business School
• Noah Hart Jr., EdD
  Assistant Dean
  Leon Hess Business School