• Roy Carriker
• Steven Chill
• Tom Ciotti
• John DiCicco Jr.
• Mechele Flaum
• Mary McDermott-Holland
• Elizabeth Ingrassia
• Pieter Kodde
• Marc Minker
• Andrew Peskoe
• Donna Rapaccioli
• Bert Twaalfhoven
Roy C. Carriker
In 2002 Dr. Carriker retired as vice chairman of Teleflex Incorporated, a diversified $ 2.2 billion NYSE listed firm with a balanced portfolio of businesses in the commercial, aerospace and medical markets. In 26 years with Teleflex, his primary responsibility was growing the Aerospace segment from a few million in revenue to over $600 million, while also playing a major role in moving Teleflex from a primarily domestic manufacturer to a global provider of goods and services with over 130 operations in 21 countries. In his tenure, Teleflex grew continuously year over year never missing an annual increase in revenues and earnings.
Post Teleflex Carriker founded and continues today as chairman of Global Advisors LLC, a firm focusing on strategic counsel in the areas of technology assessment, going global, acquisitions/divestitures, joint ventures and strategy.
Carriker holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Washington State University, Trinity College and the University of Connecticut, respectively. His early career focused on the management of technology with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft and United Technologies Research Laboratories. He then joined HMW Industries where he managed R&D and technology based start-ups. Thereafter, while attending the Harvard Business School, he founded Carriker and Associates, a consultancy assessing the viability of technological innovations being brought to market and, after receiving an MBA, subsequently joined Teleflex.
Recently, Carriker served for 3 years as CEO of Indivers BV (The Netherlands), now chairman, and serves in director or advisory capacities to: OTB BV; The SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management, the Wharton School; the Aerospace Industries Association Board of Governors and Glenthorne Capital. Previously he was: director of Teleflex Incorporated; Selas Corporation of America; Laser Technology, Inc.; Heurchrome SA (France); Telair GmbH (Germany); Airfoil Technologies International (a General Electric joint venture); the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia; the Harvard Business School Club of Philadelphia; the Pennsylvania Innovation Network (PIN); chairman of the Drexel University Center for the Plasma Processing of Materials Advisory Board and chairman of the PIN CEO Exchange. He was also the Pennsylvania Innovation Network 1994 Entrepreneur of the Year.
Steven Chill
Mr. Chill is a partner of the firm practicing in the areas of Estate Planning and Administration and Charitable Organizations. His clients include high net-worth individuals, professionals, business owners, individual and corporate fiduciaries and charitable organizations. Mr. Chill's Estate Planning and Administration practice includes: the development of creative estate plans to minimize estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes to provide for the preservation of family wealth; handling all aspects of the administration of estates and trusts, including post mortem tax planning; counseling families on estate-planning opportunities available with respect to closely held businesses and the transfer of such businesses to younger generations; handling matters before the Internal Revenue Service and the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, including audits, appeals and ruling requests; handling Surrogate's Court matters; analysis of the appropriateness of the use of various insurance products as part of an estate plan; advising clients on the use of estate planning techniques that provide benefits for the family as well as for charitable organizations; and advising executors and trustees in the discharge of their fiduciary duties.
Mr. Chill's Charitable Organizations practice includes: formation of not-for-profit organizations; obtaining and maintaining Section 501(c)(3) recognition; and counseling public and private charitable organizations on fundraising and administrative matters. Mr. Chill serves as an officer and/or director of several not-for-profit organizations.
John De Cicco Jr.
John serves as an operating executive and an owner of the De Cicco Family Markets. De Cicco’s Family Markets, is an upscale Gourmet Food Market which operates and own 6 stores in Westchester and Rockland Counties.
Mechele Flaum
"Generational Divide" to "Yen to Zen" are often written about in consumer media. Companies such as Pfizer, Lindt, RA Becker-Euro RSCG and The Hall Group credit Marketing Fire with helping them to create big-idea branding strategy, on-trend brand messages, new markets for global products, and helping them to foster consumer loyalty.
Mechele has been interpreting trends, interviewing consumers, and consulting experts on the future of the consumer landscape for almost two decades. As former president of Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve, she spent 13 years honing trend insights into product and marketplace strategies for companies such as American Home Products, Bell Atlantic, BMW, Chesebrough-Pond's, ConAgra, DAP, Dow Brands, Heublein, Hoffmann La-Roche, IBM, Lederle (now Wyeth), MetLife, Met-Rx, Pepsi-Lipton, RJR Nabisco, Rubbermaid, Seagram, Silicon Graphics, and The Burton Group, Ltd. Earlier in her career, Mechele was Brand Manager for Joseph E. Seagram & Sons in New York City where she was responsible for brands accounting for 30 percent of her division's profits including Kessler and Tuaca. Following Seagram, she worked as Brand Director for SB Thomas on Thomas' Toast-r-Cakes and Sahara Pita Bread, and for Thompson Medical on Slim Fast, the diet beverage, at that time an $80 million business. Represented by the Harry Walker Agency, Mechele speaks nationally and internationally on consumer trends. She has spoken for Disney, Intel, Girl Scouts of America, Crain's NY Business, Crystal Cruises, Shop.org and Visa, among others. She is co-author of a new book on cross-generational leadership titled The 100-Mile Walk: A Father And Son on a Quest to Find the Essence of Leadership (Amacom 2005). Mechele holds a B.A. from American University, an M.A. in American Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She is also on the Editorial Board of Lifestyles magazine and serves on the Board of Brooklyn Friends School.
Mary McDermott-Holland
Ms. McDermott-Holland is Director & Trading Manager at Mellon Capital Management. She was most recently Senior Vice President of Trading at Franklin Portfolio Associates until a merger with Mellon Capital in January, 2009. Mary is a Past Chairman of the Security Traders Association (STA). She has also served STA as Co-Chair of the Trading Issues Committee, as Co-Chair of the Institutional Committee, as Chairman of the Conference Committee, Technology Committee and Economic Education Committee. Mary is a former member of NASDAQ’s Institutional Traders Advisory Council and was the founding Chairman and served in that role from 1998-2001 and then as a committee member through 2003. Mary has also served on the Board of the Boston Stock Exchange (BSE) from 2001 through its merger with Nasdaq OMX in 2008. On the BSE board she served and on both the Regulatory Oversight Committee and Fees Committee. She has served on the New York Stock Exchange Institutional Traders Advisory Committee and on NYSE’s Allocation Committee. Mary was a Co-Chair of NASDAQ’s Quality of Markets Committee and Trader Forum’s Advisory Committee, she is a member of the National Organization of Investment Professionals, and was a member of the Investment Company Institute’s Equity Markets Advisory Committee. Mary served as a member of the Boston Security Traders Association board for 16 years and as President of that organization in 1993. Mary also currently serves on Fordham University’s Business Advisory Council.
Elizabeth Ingrassia
Director of the Twaalfhoven Center for Entrepreneurship and Fordham Institute for Family & Private Entreprise.. She is a seasoned entrepreneur, having starting several businesses in the retail, wholesale, licensing and Internet sectors. In 1999, she founded Eluxury.com, an internet retailer selling exclusive luxury goods. Ms. Ingrassia manages Harvard Managment Group, Inc., a boutique consulting firm specializing in startup issues and fund raising. She also advises early and later staged companies in the areas of marketing, sales communications, strategy, and product development. Ms. Ingrassia has worked for Time Warner and SNET, in their new media divisions. Ms. Ingrassia holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Boston College, where she was Captain of the Womens Varisty Tennis Team. Ms. Ingrassia has also served on the faculty at Columbia Business School, NYU and Georgetown University.
He joined Lincolnshire Management ( LMI) as a Managing Director in July 2005 and serves as a member of the Origination Team. Before joining LMI, Mr. Kodde was Managing Director of the Financial Sponsors Group for North America at Rabobank International, headquartered in New York. Rabobank is one of the world’s largest agribusiness lenders. Rabobank International focuses on offering specialized products and services for the food, beverage and agribusiness sectors. While at Rabobank, Mr. Kodde was responsible for arranging financing for approximately fifty buy-out transactions in the food and beverage industry. Mr. Kodde is regarded as a highly experienced investment professional with considerable expertise in the food and beverage industries. Prior to joining Rabobank in 1993, Mr. Kodde was with ABN in Brazil in Treasury and Corporate Finance. Mr. Kodde is a graduate of HES Amsterdam School of Business (1987) in the Netherlands
Marc MinkerMarc is the Director of Mahoney Cohen’s Family Office and Private Client Services Group. He specializes in providing tax, personal advisory and financial planning services to high net-worth individuals, corporate executives, closely held businesses and families.
Prior to joining Mahoney Cohen, Marc was a tax partner with the international accounting and consulting firm of Ernst & Young. During his 16 years with Ernst & Young, Marc was responsible for Affluent Client Services in the New York metropolitan area as well as national leadership of the Executive Planning Services group. Marc has extensive experience in individual tax, family wealth transfer, investments, estate and retirement planning, and charitable giving.
Marc has lectured frequently on Personal Tax and Financial Planning at public programs and employer-sponsored events. He has written articles for the New York Journal of Taxation, Boardroom Reports, The Ernst & Young Financial Planning Reporter and The Rockland Journal News, authored the chapter on “Losing your Spouse or Life Partner” in the Ernst & Young Guide to Financial Planning, has appeared on CNN and CNBC and has hosted “Tax Chat” on Barnes & Noble’s internet website.
Marc is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the International Association of Financial Planners and holds his CPA license in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as well as the Personal Financial Specialist designation issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the AICPA’s Personal Financial Planning Division and is a board member on the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants Personal Financial Planning division
Mr. Peskoe is an active private investor in early stage companies, principally in the media and technology area. In addition, he is an investor in a number of venture capital and private equity funds, and is a principal in Israeli Cleantech Ventures L.P., a $75 million venture capital fund.
Mr. Peskoe is co-head of the corporate practice group at the New York City law firm Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP. He represents private and public emerging growth companies, venture capital funds, private equity funds and strategic investors in international and domestic mergers, acquisitions, equity and debt financings, technology transfer and licensing, and complex financing transactions, including leverage buyouts, venture capital and “growth equity” financings, and other private equity transactions.
Mr. Peskoe has served as an economic consultant to The National Bureau of Economic Research, The National Academy of Sciences, and the Antitrust Division of the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General. He is a graduate, with honors from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Donna M. Rapaccioli was appointed the Dean of the College of Business Administration at Fordham University in January 2007, and since July 2009, also serves as interim Co-Dean of Business Faculty. In addition, Dr. Rapaccioli holds the rank of Tenured Associate Professor of Accounting at Fordham University’s Schools of Business. Dr. Rapaccioli is a member of the Advisory Board for the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools, the Steering Committee for Fordham’s Consortium for Social Justice, and the Fordham University International Initiatives Advisory Group. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration at Fordham University’s College of Business Administration, and a Masters Degree and Doctor of Philosophy degree in accounting from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She has developed and taught a myriad of courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, including International Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis. She has also taught in the Executive MBA program. Dr. Rapaccioli was awarded the Dean’s Award for teaching excellence. Her research interests are in the area of earnings management and international accounting; she has published articles in academic journals and is the co-author of two book chapters. In addition to her duties at Fordham University, Dr. Rapaccioli has consulted for and lectured at numerous investment banks in New York City.