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Karen Amato
Partner 
KPMG

Karen is an audit partner in KPMG’s Metro, New York consumer and industrial markets practice. Karen has spent her entire 20 year career with KPMG’s Long Island office and has been an audit partner for 7 years.

 Karen is a certified public accountant in the states of New York and New Jersey. She earned a bachelor of business administration degree in accounting, magna cum laude, from Hofstra University. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Karen has provided audit services to companies in a wide range of industries, including cosmetic, pharmaceuticals and electronics. Karen has significant experience serving manufacturers and distributors. Her experience also includes servicing public companies subject to the accounting and reporting rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Karen also assists clients with private placement securities offerings, initial public offerings and due diligence assistance. Karen’s clients have ranged in size from middle market to large multinational companies.

Karen is the co-chair of KPMG’s Network of Women for the Long Island office (KNOW Network). The KNOW Network’s mission is to create professional development opportunities for women and to ensure KPMG is a great place for them to build their careers. Karen also serves on KPMG’s Northeast area Diversity Council. She is the Resource Management Partner for the Long Island office and has previously led the office’s recruiting efforts

 

 

 

 

Monique Attar - Chief Marketing Officer, Networking Magazine
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Jean Lahage Cohen
Executive Director
Mentoring Partnerships of Long Island & New York

Jean holds an AB from Brown University in Applied Mathematics-Psychology and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Formerly an economic business consultant to Fortune 500 companies, she has been involved with not-for-profit organizations for 25 years. Motivating and directing volunteers is one of her areas of expertise, having trained over 7,500 volunteers in mentoring.  Her experienced training is in demand for mentoring programs across the country.

The Mentoring Partnerships work to increase the number of children in mentoring programs. The Partnerships have helped start over 150 programs in schools, churches, temples, businesses and youth agencies. The Mentoring Partnerships train over 1,700 people annually in how to be a mentor as well as how to start safe and successful mentoring programs. Currently, they work with 300+ agencies that serve over 37,000 young people.

Ms. Cohen’s work ranges from developing school-based mentoring programs to finding compatible business and government partners to producing online resource materials and newsletters for the 300+ programs.

A co-author of Mentoring at the Middle School and a Woman of the Fortune 52, Long Island Press, Ms. Cohen mentored the same young woman for ten years. She was recently awarded the Nassau BOCES Partners in Education Award for 2009.

 

 

 

 

  Ilene Cooper
  Partner 
  Farrell Fritz

Ilene S. Cooper is a partner at the Uniondale-based law firm of Farrell Fritz, P.C.  She practices trusts and estates litigation in Surrogate’s Courts throughout the Metropolitan area.  Ms. Cooper is a frequent contributor to the firm's New York Trusts & Estates Litigation (www.nyestatelitigationblog.com) blog.   

Ms. Cooper is the immediate past president of the Suffolk County Bar Association.  She serves on the Advisory Committee of the Suffolk Academy of Law, is a member of the Association’s Surrogate’s Court Committee, its Professionalism Committee and is one of the founding members of the Association’s Scholarship Fund.

 

Ms. Cooper is a Member at Large and treasurer of the New York State Bar Association's Trusts and Estates Law Section; a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation and the American College of Trust and Estate Council; and is a member of the House of Delegates, the Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court and Suffolk County's Pro Bono Action Committee.  In 2010, she was reappointed to the Supreme Court of the State of New York's Grievance Committee for the Tenth Judicial District.  She is an adjunct professor of law at Touro Law School, where she also serves on the School's Board of Trustees.

 

Ms. Cooper is a board member of The Hills Foundation, Suffolk County Child Care Council, Child Abuse Prevention Services, Half Hollow Hills Business Advisory Council, Children’s Medical Fund Corporate Alliance, Touro Law School’s Board of Governors, Long Island Women’s Agenda and the Suffolk County Youth Board Coordination Council. She serves on the Suffolk County Coalition Against Domestic Violence's Honorary Board. 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

  Kathleen Gobos
  Associate Publisher
  Long Island Business News

Kathleen Gobos is the Associate Publisher for Long Island Business News and has been in the advertising, marketing and publishing field for over 20 years.  Kathleen serves as second in command to the Publisher, and is responsible for overseeing sales, operations and financial management in all departments and supervising the staff.  LIBN publishes a regional business paper, website, e-daily Flash Report, 12 annual magazines and custom publications.

 

Kathleen joined LIBN in May 2004 after 13 years on the advertising staff of Newsday, where she was instrumental in building and establishing a territory for four regional niche publications, Distinction Magazine, Long Island Parents & Children, Long Island Weddings and Business LI magazines.  She assisted in creating brand awareness as well as a strong presence in the marketplace.

 

Kathleen's previous experience included CBA Industries, running the office operations at their Melville satellite office and managing the national accounts preprint advertising, and a numismatic company operating and promoting auctions and assisting in publishing their trade magazine. 

 

 

Kathleen considers her tenacity, work ethic, supportive mentors and key personnel to be the driving forces behind her success.  Kathleen completed training in business and management at SUNY Farmingdale.  She is committed to philanthropic endeavors, the Smithtown IAB, the Energeia Partnership, Women Business & Golf committee.  She sits on the board of the Long Island Advertising Club and Dolan Media Advertising Board, training and benchmarking panel that oversees sales programs at the dozens of newspapers owned by LIBN’s parent, Dolan Media Co. of Minneapolis

 

 

 

 

Lorraine Greenwald, PhD
Dean of the School of Business
Farmingdale State College

Dr. Lorraine Greenwald is Dean for the School of Business at Farmingdale State College in Farmingdale, New York.  She has a lifelong yearning for learning that has propelled her from a career in industry to academia.

Straight out of high school, she completed a bachelor degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Stony Brook University.  Over the next 15 years she accepted increasingly responsible positions in banking, government and telecommunications.  While employed full time, she earned an M.B.A. in International Business and Finance from Stern’s Graduate School of Business in New York City.

Dr. Greenwald has a proven track record in team building and problem solving, and is committed to excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. Possessing a distinctive blend of experience in both industry and academia, she serves on the Advisory Council for SBPLI First Robotics and on the Board of Directors for both The Great Knights and ExecuLeaders. She is an active member of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and the Association for Information Technology Professionals (AITP).

 
Andree Sanquini
Director - Online Retail Advertising, Newsday

Andrée Sanquini is the Group Publisher of Island Publications, Newsday's niche magazine division. She oversees creative content, sales, production and distribution of the award-winning publications Distinction, Newsday's Parents and Children, Wellness and Long Island Weddings, as well as Long Island's most widely distributed tourism guides and numerous economic development magazines. As Group Publisher, Andrée redesigned all the publications and developed the websites in conjunction with those publications. 

Susan Winters
Merrill Lynch
Northeast Board President - Canine Companions
Photo and bio coming soon