Speakers.(Business Solutions 2003)

MICHELLE BENJAMIN

Founder, Benjamin Enterprises

In 1985, a back injury ended Michelle Benjamin's nursing career. With her future unclear, Michelle attended a local new business development seminar. After learning some basic business principles, she became excited by the possibilities of having her own business. In polling her friends and family on the business potential in her community of Orange County, NY she decided to launch a residential cleaning service. Working from her home, she hired, trained and dispatched two cleaners to several local homes.

Within six months, one of her clients, a local business owner, was so pleased with the level of service that she contracted Michelle's company to provide janitorial services for her business. At this point, Benjamin Enterprises was born.

Today, Benjamin Enterprises is housed in its own corporate office building, built in 2000. A newly developed corporate management team, led by Michelle and her husband Hugh, a former IBM engineer, will lead the company into its next phase of expansion.

Benjamin Enterprises was named The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year[R] in the Services category for 2002.

EUGENE P. BUCCINI, PH.D.

Vice President Academic Affairs/

Professor of Management,

Western Connecticut State University

Dr. Buccini is the Vice President For Academic Affairs at Western Connecticut State University and a Professor of Management. He was formerly the Dean of the Ancell School of Business and the Chairman of the Management Department.

Dr. Buccini specializes in the areas of executive leadership and human resource management. In addition, he is the author of several books and articles on leadership and human resource management, and he developed the nationally renowned Leadership in Health Services Survey (a 360[degrees] competency instrument), Dr. Buccini started his career in labor relations. He has held labor relations, human resources and executive positions at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Lincoln Hall.

His education background includes a Ph.D. from New York University, an MBA from Pace University, as well as certificates from Harvard University and Cornell University.

DIANA M. CAMPOS

Director of Development Food PATCH

and co-President

Westchester Association of Development

Officers

Diana M. Campos, is the Director of Development for Food-PATCH, the Westchester county food bank and currently serves as Co-President for the Westchester Association of Development Officers.

Ms. Campos has a long successful history working in the field of fundraising and community development. Diana, has honed her skills in working with organizations establishing start-up development offices such as CLUSTER, Human Development Services of Westchester and at Food-PATCH. Ms. Campos has also assisted organizations diversify their fundraising pool, as well as their base of support. In this capacity, Ms. Campos has raised over $2 million over the past 8 years, and over $12 million over the course of her career at organizations like the American Diabetes Association, Hudson Valley Hospital Foundation, and St. Luke's Hospital Foundation. However, Ms. Campos' most enduring legacy lies in the area of community development.

Ms. Campos was honored as "Outstanding Hispanic Woman" in 1993 by Gov. Mario Cuomo for her work in the area of Domestic Violence. Diana is married to Rene Campos, President of DMU Music Inc. and has two beautiful, intelligent daughters.

ARTHUR CERRATI

Senior VP Sales, Savvy Networks

Arthur Cerrati joined Savvy in 2002 as St. Vice President of Sales. Prior to joining Corporate America in January 1996, Arthur was Founder and President of TAC Protective Systems. TAC was a NYC-based Electronic Protection company specializing in Controlled Access, Loss Prevention and Electronic Surveillance for Property Management, Institutional and Corporate accounts.

After the business was sold in 1995 to the ADT Corporation, Arthur Cerrati joined MFS/WorldCom. At MFS/WorldCom his responsibilities Included secure transport services for Wide Area Networking to Fortune S00 business nationally. Arthur went on to hold Operations and Sales Management positions at both Teligent and Global Crossing. Arthur brings to Savvy a strong background in Network security, Voice and Data Transport as well as IP services, His specialty has been Enterprise level Corporate Accounts located In the Metro NY Tri-State area. His security background and knowledge of network transport adds great value to Data Center Disaster Recovery operations and Sales at "The Bunker."

BOB AND SUE COLE

Partners, Cole Communications

ROBERT S. COLE

Bob Cole is a former journalist, agency executive and public relations director for multinational commercial banks, a trade association and not-for-profit organizations.

The author of "The Practical Handbook of Public Relations" (called "perhaps the best how-to book to arrive on the public relations scene" by Public Relations Journal), he has taught public relations and marketing at Pace University, St. John's University and City University of New York. Bob has written articles for his and clients' by-lines that appeared in more than two dozen national and local publications, and he has been a speech writer for some 30 corporate and banking executives.

Bob is a past chair of the Public Relations Society of America's Financial Services Section. He recently completed a three-year term as a board member of American Association of People with Disabilities and now chairs its Political Participation Committee.

SUSAN W. COLE

Sue Cole is an award-winning public relations professional who specializes in reputation management, strategic positioning, and marketplace surveys and audits.

Before forming Cole Communications in 1994, she was managing director and head of the corporate affairs/special issues group for Ogilvy & Mather PR, serving clients throughout the United States and abroad.

Sue has extensive experience coaching clients in media and presentation skills. She has also led executive workshops in strategic communications planning and managing productive agency relationships for the Professional Development Institute and at the national convention of the Public Relations Society of America. She is a director of the Westchester Association of Development Officers and a board member of the County Chamber of Commerce.

MAGDA DU PREEZ, MA

President of Magda du Preez Consultants

Magda du Preez is president of Magda du Preez Consultants, a Westchester based consulting company providing organization and management development services to clients such as Pfizer, United Vision Group, Health Care Human Resources and various nonprofit organizations. She teaches as an adjunct professor in the MBA program of Long Island University. Her main areas of expertise are performance improvement, leadership development, employee selection and assessment, executive coaching, and workflow…