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Welcome to the New Jersey Chapter of NACD

NACD New Jersey (NACDNJ) is one of 22 chapters in the growing network of the National Association of Corporate Directors. We are grateful to our Board of Directors, Advisory Council, and Sponsors for their vision, wisdom, and active participation.

The mission of NACDNJ is:

To be the premier organization for New Jersey’s corporate directors for formal and informal networking, sharing of best practices, and education on director effectiveness and corporate governance.


NACDNJ Board of Directors

Rosina B. Dixon, MD
Chapter Chair
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Rosina B. Dixon has over 30 years of experience on the boards of Church & Dwight Co., Inc. and CambrexCorp. She serves as chairman of the Compensation Committee of Cambrex and of the Governance and Nominating Committee of Church & Dwight. She served on the board of NACD from 1994 to 2003 and on the Blue Ribbon Commissions, Performance Evaluation of Chief Executive Officers as well as the Role of the Board in Strategic Planning. She holds a BA from Harvard/Radcliffe College and an MD from Columbia P&S. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Roosevelt Hospital in New York and worked in new drug development at CIBA-Geigy, Schering Plough and as a consultant. Since 2006 she has been a Senior Director in Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology at Sanofi-aventis.

Mark W. Sickles
Chapter President
Chair, Nominations & Governance Committee

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Mark W. Sickles is a principal at Mark W. Sickles, LLC, a Fellow at Governance & Accountability Institute, and Founding President, CEO and Board Director at the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). Mark authored Shareholder Value Assurance, The Mark W. Sickles Handbook for Well-Intended Boards & Directors, Strategic Governance, and is published by Directors Monthly, Directors & Boards, and Investor Relations Update.

Mark has created billions of dollars of shareholder value for several firms as an executive and consultant, and is currently creating a superior governance regime. He speaks on governance, strategy, and sustainability, having presented globally to directors, CEOs, GCs, CFOs, investor relations officers, CIOs, human resource executives and security analysts.

Mark has served as adjunct professor and faculty member at The Singapore Institute of Management, American Management Association and Rutgers University, and recently served as Chairman of the 3rd and 4th Annual MENA Region Corporate Governance Congresses in Dubai. He currently serves on the advisory boards of The Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurship and Trestle Group, a Swiss-based outsourcing strategy firm, and is a former board member of Abington Healthcare Corporation. Mark is a graduate of Georgetown University, with a M.S. degree in Industrial Relations from Rutgers.

Laura L. Brooks
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Laura L. Brooks was appointed vice president - risk management and chief risk officer (CRO) for PSEG, in November 2002. She implements PSEG’s enterprise risk management strategy and recommends methodologies for assessing and evaluating risk across all PSEG businesses. She has direct responsibility for the middle office functions of the trading subsidiary of PSEG Power, Energy Resources & Trade. Ms. Brooks is an integral member of the risk management committee, which is responsible for managing the company’s exposure to commodity prices, credit, interest rate and other financial risks.

Ms. Brooks came to PSEG from PG&E Corporation, where she had been vice president - risk management. She currently serves on the advisory board for the quantitative finance program at Rutgers University, is a director of Provident Financial Services and the Provident Bank of New Jersey, and also serves on the board of the Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey.

Ms. Brooks was previously employed at Deloitte & Touche as a senior manager; at Equitable Resources as director - corporate risk management; at Equitrans, an interstate pipeline, as vice president - reservoir engineering; and at Southern California Gas Company as a senior engineer.

Michael R. Cooper
Dean, Rutgers Business School
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Dr. Michael R. Cooper, who joined Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University as Dean in May 2007, has 25 years of leadership experience in senior executive positions in international market research, marketing services, management consulting and technology companies. Since 1999, Dr. Cooper has been chair and managing partner of Cooper Interests LLC, which he founded to provide private equity investments and business strategy counsel in selective early and mid-stage companies. From 1989 to 1999, he served as chair, president and chief executive officer of Opinion Research Corporation (ORC), which he took public on the NASDAQ. Prior to ORC, he was president of Hay Research for Management for 10 years and senior partner of The Hay Group. Currently, Dr. Cooper is chair of the board of directors of Patient Passport, and a member of the board of directors of Xlibris, New York Private Placement Network and BN. Dr. Cooper received his doctorate in industrial and organizational psychology from Ohio State University and has completed executive education at Harvard Business School.

Martin M. Coyne
Chair, Sponsorship Committee
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Martin M. Coyne II is a professional board director and senior advisor to CEOs, boards of directors and private equity investors. A former Executive Vice President and Group Executive of the Eastman Kodak Company, Mr. Coyne currently serves as Lead Independent Director of Akamai Technologies (AKAM) and also serves on the boards of directors of OpenPages, a privately-held provider of enterprise governance, risk and compliance management solutions, and Avecia Group Plc., a privately-held manufacturer of biologics and oligonucleotides. Mr. Coyne earned a B.S. degree in Pharmacy from Fordham University and an M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has also attended the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of Business.

John Levy
Chair, Programs Committee
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John F. Levy is Chief Executive Officer and principal consultant for Board Advisory, a consulting firm established to assist public companies, or companies aspiring to be public with corporate governance, corporate compliance, ethics, financial reporting and financial strategies. Mr. Levy currently serves as non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Applied Minerals, Inc., a materials company focused on specialty clays. Mr. Levy also serves on the Board of Directors of four other public companies. He is a Board Member and Audit Committee Chairperson of Take Two Interactive Software, Inc. a global developer and publisher of videogames best known for the Grand Theft Auto franchise. The most recent Grand Theft Auto videogame, GTA 4, is one of the best selling entertainment products of all-time, earning $500 million in its first week of release. Mr. Levy is also a member of the Board of Directors and Lead Director for Gilman Ciocia, Inc., a member of the Board of Directors of PNG Ventures, Inc., and Applied Energetics, Inc.

He has authored Focus on Corporate Ethics: Legal and Ethical Responsibilities of Board Members, a course on the ethical and legal responsibilities of board members initially presented to various state accounting societies. Mr. Levy has over thirty years of progressive financial and accounting experience including having served as Chief Financial Officer of public and private companies. Mr. Levy is a Certified Public Accountant with nine years experience with the national accounting firms of Ernst & Young, Laventhol & Horwathand Grant Thornton. Mr. Levy is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and received his MBA from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia.

Richard C. Lufkin
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Richard C. Lufkin is the principal of Enterprise Development Associates, a proprietorship formed in 1985 which provides consulting and venture support services to early stage technology-based companies, principally in the life sciences sector. He currently serves as a director and chair of the audit committee of DUSA Pharmaceuticals and as a director and CFO of Anima Cell Metrology, Inc., a development-stage privately-held biotechnology firm.

Jan Margolis
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Jan Margolis is a Director of the Trinitas Regional Medical Center and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Clausen Company and PaulisonProperties. Jan is co-founder and Managing Director of Applied Research, a firm specializing in assessment, leadership coaching, and performance strategies. Prior to co-founding Applied Research, she was senior vice president, executive resources, at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Jan is the former President of the American Society for Training and Development, and has also served on the Board of Directors of the Council on International Human Resource Management, the American Center for the Quality of Work Life, the National Center for Research in Vocational Education, the International Federation of Training and Development Organizations, the Princeton University Advisory Board on Employee Relations. She also serves as a Board Member of the Chamber of Commerce.

William E. McCracken
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Bill McCracken is chairman and chief executive officer at CA, Inc., one of the world’s largest information technology management software companies. Bill joined CA’s Board of Directors in 2005, became chairman in 2007 and executive chairman in 2009. He became chief executive officer in January 2010.

Prior to joining CA, Bill held numerous executive positions at IBM during his 36-year tenure, most recently as a member of the Chairman's Worldwide Management Council and general manager of IBM's printing division. He previously served as president of IBM's EMEA and Asia PC Company and as general manager of marketing, sales and distribution for IBM PC Company.

Bill has been the president of Executive Consulting Group, LLC, and was a director of IKON Office Solutions. Bill is active in the National Association of Corporate Directors, is a commissioner of the 2009 Blue Ribbon Commission on Risk Governance, and is a member of the board of NACD-NJ. He is also a participant in the Chairmen’s Forum of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management.

In 2009, Bill was named by the NACD Directorship as one of the top 100 most influential people in the boardroom. He is also a member of CNBC’s Carbon Council and has appeared as a guest on the network.

Hal B. Shear
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Hal Shear is Managing Director of Board Assets, Inc., an advisory firm that provides governance services to directors and boards throughout the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. He has served on more than 16 boards and currently is Chairman of the Board of two privately held companies, NewsIt Inc. and Planet Rewards, Inc. for which he provides strategic and operational advice as well as governance expertise. He is also a director of four non-profit boards, including the Florida and New Jersey Chapters of the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Edward J. Smith
Chair, Marketing & Membership Committee
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Edward J. Smith, President of Barnegat Bay Capital, a corporate finance consulting firm, has served as an independent director and member of the audit committee of four public companies since 2003. Currently, Mr. Smith is a director, member of the audit committee and chairman of the nominating and governance committee of Cognex Corporation (CGNX), the world’s leading supplier of machine vision systems. He is also a director and chairman of the audit committee of ATS Corporation (ATSC), a provider of systems integration and other strategic IT services to U.S. federal government agencies. Mr. Smith is a member of the faculty of the NACD's Board Advisory Services group which conducts board education events.  He taught a corporate governance course at Yale University in 2006 and 2007. Mr. Smith earned an A.B. degree in Philosophy from Yale University in and an MBA in Finance from Harvard Business School.


NACDNJ Advisory Council

Beverly Aisenbrey
Managing Director, Frederic W. Cook

Jim Barrood
Executive Director, Rothman Institute

Glenn C. Davis, CPA
J.H. Cohn Corporate Governance Services Practice Leader and Chapter Treasurer

Alyce Halchak
Director, Gibbons P.C.

Mike J. Holliday
President, American Society of Corporate Secretaries

Steve Luongo, CPCU
Managing Director, Marsh

Frank Morelli
Practice Leader, Tatum, LLC

Corey Temple
Partner, KPMG


Contact Us

Bernie Lynch
NACDNJ
Chapter Administrator
T: 866.648.3369
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