Leadership Mohawk Valley announces class of 2016

MARCY, N.Y. — Leadership Mohawk Valley — a local, community leader development program — has announced its class of 2016. It includes participants from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors in Herkimer and Oneida counties.

 

Leadership Mohawk Valley (LMV) seeks to “develop and inform” the region’s current and future leaders during the span of a program year from August to May, theorganization said in a news release issued Tuesday.

 

The program year begins with a day-and-a-half long orientation/opening retreat at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Marcy.

 

The class then meets one day per month to focus on a “specific aspect” of the community.

 

Topics will include human services, health care/health & wellness, education & lifelong learning, science & technology, economic development, and other topics.

 

The sessions give participants a “hands-on” look at key organizations and issues facing that particular field, along with access to decision makers.

 

 

The members of the incoming LMV class include:

 

·         Israel Acosta, branch manager, M&T Bank;

 

·         Adrianne Arnone, senior secretary to VP of student affairs/enrollment management, Utica College;

 

·         Pietra Baio, strategic project coordinator, NBT Bank;

 

·         Tracy Checksfield, operations coordinator, Griffiss Institute;

 

·         Jake DiBari, director of community & economic development, City of Rome;

 

·         Gina Dier, human-resources manager, Coventya, Inc.;

 

·         Anthony Dirig, programmer/analyst, AmeriCU Credit Union;

 

·         Mark Dudek, director of development & communications, The Arc, Oneida-Lewis Chapter;

 

·         Jamie Elderbroom, client advocate, Gilroy Kernan & Gilroy;

 

·         Brant Ford, financial consultant, Ford English Financial Group;

 

·         Jessica French, quality assurance specialist, Herkimer Area Resource Center;

 

·         Nancy Gaston, job developer, Workforce Investment Board HMO;

 

·         Major Michael Geer, chief of intelligence operations, Eastern Air Defense Sector;

 

·         James Genovese, executive assistant to Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente;

 

·         Paul Gilgallon, senior research engineer, Air Force Research Laboratory;

 

·         Kim Hoffman, chief operator, Mohawk Valley Water Authority;

 

·         Wendy Iamele, program manager, Kids Oneida, Healthy Families;

 

·         Bernard Jowers, security forces training manager, Eastern Air Defense Sector;

 

·         Heather Kirkland, accounting manager, Northland Communications;

 

·         Lanae Klingensmith, assistant branch manager, First Niagara Bank;

 

·         Kara Ladd, associate account manager, Gilroy Kernan Gilroy;

 

·         Christopher Lambe, CPA and controller, Kids Oneida;

 

·         Tiffany Martin, executive director, Ava Dorfman Center;

 

·         Elizabeth Nadeau, food service manager, Rome Memorial Hospital;

 

·         Brenda Rogowski, loan & deposit operations manager, First Source Federal Credit Union;

 

·         Michael Ryan, senior production underwriter, Preferred Mutual Insurance Co.;

 

·         Shannon Secor, controller, Assured Information Security;

 

·         Robert Shauger, director of sales & development, ConfiData;

 

·         Sommer Simonds, program coordinator, CABVI;

 

·         Richelle Singer, assistant CCRR director, Child Care Council of Cornell Cooperative Extension;

 

·         Christina Spagnuolo, job developer, Workforce Investment Board HMO;

 

·         Mary J. Sykes, financial systems accountant/adjunct instructor, Mohawk Valley Community College;

 

·         Donald Telesca, Jr., research physicist, Air Force Research Laboratory;

 

·         Michele Trinkaus, coordinator of foster-care services, The House of the Good Shepherd;

 

·         Daniel Zimmerman, forester, McDonough Hardwoods.

 

LMV was created in 1990 as a joint effort of the Herkimer, Utica (now Mohawk Valley), and Rome chambers of commerce and area business leaders, according to its website.

 

Contact Reinhardt at ereinhardt@cnybj.com