BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ariel Aufgang, AIA, President
Principal, Aufgang Architects
Fund Holder, Aufgang Family Charitable Foundation
Debra J. Thomas, PH.D, Vice President
Executive Director
Rockland Teachers’ Center Institute
Michael Di Bella, Secretary
Managing Partner
Accounting Solutions, LLC
Fund Holder, CVC Rotary Foundation
Don Karlewicz, CPA, Treasurer
Partner, PKF O’Connor Davies
Paul Adler, Esq.
Chief Strategy Officer
Rand Commercial
Fund Holder, Paul & Mary Adler Charitable Fund for Good
Joe Allen
Hudson Cove Group
Fund Holder, Boulder’s Community Fund, Nancy’s Place,
Suffrage Forward and
Tomorrow’s Hopes Fund
Amy Brown
Owner
A.E. Brown Funeral Directors
Lena Bodin
MBA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
People Resource Strategies
Barry J. Dorfman
Senior Sales Director
Hudson United Insurance Services
Michael M. Grant
Senior Management
Regional & Community Affairs
Orange & Rockland Utilities
Dennis J. Fleming*
Fund Holder, Fleming/Fleur Children’s Fund
Priscilla Karlewicz
Counselor N. Rockland HS
Ruby Kaur
Branch Manager
People’s United Bank
D. Scott Liebert
Certified Ins. Counselor
CIG Insurance
Carlos Martinez **
CEO/Executive Director
BrIdges
Sonia Tracey, CPM
Former VP Procurement, M&T Bank
Jacques Tortoroli
Executive in Residence & Lecturer
VP Institutional Advancement & Member of the President’s Cabinet
ST. Thomas Aquinas College
ADVISORY BOARD
Patrick Byrne, Chair
Fund Holder, Anne and Pat Byrne Charitable Trust
Rhea Vogel, Vice Chair*
President, 938 & 940 Amsterdam Corp.
Frank Borelli
Clarkstown Councilman
Partner, Ducey Insurance Agency
Simona Chazen, L.C.S.W.*
Psychotherapist
Fund Holder, Chazen Spirit of Rockland Scholarship
Phyllis B. Frank
Senior Director, VCS Inc.
Bill Madden
Director, External Affairs
SUEZ
Harold J. Peterson
Senior Vice President
Sterling National Bank
C. Scott Vanderhoef, Esq.
Former Rockland County Executive
Richard Yuen, CFP 
Signature Award Reception Committee Chair
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Julie Sadowski
LEGAL COUNSEL
Lawrence A. Codispoti, Esq.
Partner, Mandel, Katz &Brosnan, LLP
Immediate Past President
Emily Dominguez
Founder, BLU RIVER marketing
Deputy Mayor & Trustee,
Village of Haverstraw
ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR
Jennifer Reyes
*Founder
** Leave of Absence