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

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 Eagen
Vice President, Snyder Corporation

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

Joan Graci
President, APA Solutions, Inc.

Gerald Hace
President, Gooding Co.

Charles Koller
Partner, Clark and Koller CPAs

Laurie Irish-Jones
CEO, Irish Welding Supply Corporation

Ralph Jeswald
Partner, Dopkins & Company, LLP

Chuck Koller
Partner, Clark & Koller, CPA's

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

Jerry Mazurkiewicz
Tax Director, Dopkins & Co.

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

Mel E. Passarelli
Vice President of North American Operations, Attunity Inc.

Frederick B. Saia
President, Oneida Sales & Services

Brian Savage
Regional Controller, NY Region, Allstate Insurance Company

Robert Simpson, Esq.
Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

Edward Tierney
Partner, BlackDog Strategy & Brand

Tom Ulbrich
Executive Director, UB Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

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. Neuman
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