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Behind every great organization is a strong board of directors, and The Business Council of Westchester is no different. Our Executive Committee and Board of Directors are instrumental in helping us fulfill our mission. All are pillars of the business community and we thank them for their outstanding dedication and service.

2008 Executive Committee
Chairman of the Board	Stephen J. Jones, Esq.	Jones Garneau, LLP
President/CEO	Dr. Marsha Gordon	The Business Council of Westchester
Immediate Past Chairman	Ellen Lynch	Yonkers IDA
Vice Chair, Area Development	Warren Lesser	H & S Property Management, Inc.
Vice Chair, Business Development	Christopher O’Callaghan	Cushman & Wakefield of CT
Vice Chair, Governmental Action	James O’Toole	James P. O’Toole Consulting
Vice Chair, Small Business and Program Development	Ted Miller	DataKey Consulting
Treasurer	Cynthia Rubino	Berkeley College
Associate Treasurer	Dr. Greg Chartier	The Office of Gregory J. Chartier
Secretary	Ronald Stytzer	Antun’s of Westchester
General Counsel	Jon Dorf, Esq.	The Dorf Law Firm, LLP
	Richard P. Biondi	White Plains Hospital Center
	Robert K. Kaplan	IGI, LLC
	Willa Brody	NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester
	Charles Brown	C.W. Brown, Inc
	Laurence Gottlieb	Burson-Marsteller
	T. Daniel Tearno	Heineken USA
	John Zanzarella	Zanzarella Marketing Consultants
2008 DIRECTORS
	Sheila Appel	IBM Corporation
	Richard A. Berman	Manhattanville College
	Elizabeth Bracken-Thompson	Thompson & Bender, Inc.
	Charles W. Brown, Jr.	C. W. Brown, Inc.
	John Butler	Verizon
	Katherine Conits	Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
	Jonathan DeMarco	Citibank
	Reginald Fuller	KeyBank
	Adam Handler	Fastforward Communications, Inc
	Dr. Joseph Hankin	Westchester Community College
	Wiley C. Harrison	African American Men of Westchester
	Peter Herrero	New York Hospitality Group
	Anthony Justic	Maier, Markey & Menashi LLP
	Andrew Karlen, Esq.	Karlen & Stolzar, LLP
	Howard Klein	EZKR Accounting and Consulting, LLP
	Gordon Marshall, Esq.	Law Office of Gordon Marshall P.C.
	Art Masarky	Heineken USA
	Armando Mejia	Altria Corporate Services
	Norman J. Michaels, Jr.	Michaels and Associates
	Shawn Miles	MasterCard Worldwide
	Sandra Miller	Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.
	Emilia Nuccio	Homes for America Holdings, Inc.
	William B. Plummer	NOKIA
	Greg Rand	Prudential Rand Realty
	Richard Rakow	Rakow Commercial Realty Group, Inc.
	Cathie Schaffer	JPMorgan Chase
	Marie Smyth	The Journal News
	Stewart Strauss	Strauss Paper Co., Inc
	Richard P. Swierat	Westchester ARC
	Kenneth Theobalds	Entergy
	Patrick L. Vaccaro, Esq.	Jackson Lewis, LLP
	Peter Wilcox	PepsiCo Inc

The Business Council of Westchester

108 Corporate Park Drive

Suite 101

White Plains

NY 10604

Phone: 914.948.2110

Fax: 914.948.0122

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Westchester businesses pay more than $351 million in property taxes, which represents 20 percent of the County tax levy.

Role of Business Council of Westchester : When asked to rank the top three focus/priorities of the BCW, 74 members ranked “support existing business” as the #1 priority, 57 selected “economic development” to be the #2 priority and 66 ranked “legislative development” as the third priority.