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Home > Entrepreneurship > Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) > Core Program > CEL Advisory Board

CEL Advisory Board

The CEL Advisory Board selects participants for each year's Core program and provides advice on program content. Members of the board serve as mentors, reactors and advisors in the clinic sessions and offer both formal and informal networking opportunities to Core program fellows.
Advisory Board Contact Sheet [PDF]

Arjang A. Assad
Dean, UB School of Management

David Berghash
CEO, Shield Manufacturing Inc.

Francine Brooks
President, FB Displays & Designs Inc

Paul Buckley
President, Applied Sciences Group, Inc.

James A. Cardone
President, Moneyplex Group Inc.

David A. Cervi
Vice President, Personal Touch Food Service Inc.

John Cinquino
First Vice President, First Niagara Bank

Mary Lee Collins-Sanborn
President, Collins Advisors LLC

Debbie DiMatteo
Vice President, M&T Bank

Kathy Egan
Vice President, Snyder Corporation

Mitch Flynn
President/Creative Director, Flynn and Friends, Inc.

Joan Graci
President, APA Solutions, Inc.

Gerald Hace
President, Gooding Co.

Laurie Irish-Jones
CEO, Irish Welding Supply Corporation

Ralph Jeswald
Partner, Dopkins & Company, LLP

Charles Koller
Partner, Clark and Koller CPAs

Jeff D. Kryszak
President and CEO, K-TECHnologies Inc.

Gregg Merlihan
Vice President, Harris Computer Systems

Paul Niedzialowski
Director of Operations, Northern Resolution Group, LLC.

Thomas A. Palmer, Esq.
Partner, Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel LLP

Frederick B. Saia
President, Oneida Sales & Services

Larry M. Sedillo
Allstate Insurance Company

Robert Simpson, Esq.
Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

Edward Tierney
Partner, BlackDog Strategy & Brand

Tom Ulbrich
Executive Director, UB Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Jen VanDewater
Director of Marketing/In-Store Bakery Desserts, Rich Products Corporation

Courtney Walsh
Assistant Dean, UB School of Management, Center for Executive Development

Honorary Board Members

Sal H. Alfiero
Chairman and CEO, Protective Industries

Stuart Angert
President & CEO (retired), Remarketing Services of America

Frank Ciminelli
CEO, Ciminelli Development Co. Inc.

Thomas Culligan
President, Culligan Auto Place

Stephen N. Hunt
President, Hunt Commercial Real Estate Corp. of Buffalo

Richard B. McCormick
Retired Partner; Lumsden & McCormick, CPA

Herb Mennen
President, HM Consulting Services

Jerry M. Newman
Dean & SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor

Paul Snyder Sr.
Chairman and CEO, Olympic Management Systems

Keith M. Stolzenburg
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Paul Willax
CEO, Center for Business Ownership

Joseph E. Wolfson
President/CEO, Health Transaction