Welcome to the New Jersey Chapter of NACDThe New Jersey Chapter of NACD is dedicated to supporting area directors' efforts in becoming strategic assets and sources of competitive advantage at this time of unprecedented change and challenge for boards. In addition, we are pleased to provide our members with focused opportunities to help New Jersey become a great place for business. NACD New Jersey (NACDNJ) is one of nearly 20 chapters in the growing network of the National Association of Corporate Directors. We are grateful to our Board of Directors, Advisory Committee, and Sponsors for their vision, wisdom, and active participation. The mission of NACDNJ:
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Rosina B. Dixon, MD
Chair Rosina B. Dixon has over 25 years of experience on the boards of Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Cambrex Corp. and Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc. She serves as chairman of the Regulatory Affairs Committee of Cambrex. She served on the board of NACD from 1994 to 2003 and on the Blue Ribbon Commissions, Performance Evaluation of Chief Executive Officers, Boards of Directors 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 and Schering Plough. Since 1986 she has been a consultant in pharmaceutical development. Mark W. Sickles President & CEO Mark W. Sickles is an advisor to boards of directors and top management teams, and founding principal of Mark W. Sickles, LLC. He is the author of Shareholder Value Assurance - The Cure for Enronitis and The Mark W. Sickles Handbook for Well-Intended Boards and Directors, plus numerous articles on achieving long-term shareholder value published by Directors Monthly and Directors & Boards Magazine. Mark is also the creator of Shareholder Value Assurance, a "disruptive innovation" increasingly embraced by the business, investment, and lending communities as their common language, common ground, and common cause. Mark has served as adjunct professor and faculty member at The Singapore Institute of Management, American Management Association, and Rutgers University. He currently serves on the advisory boards of Inside The Boardroom at Drexel University's Lebow College of Business and Rutger's University's Prudential Business Ethics Center. Having served as a Fortune 500 “C” level executive and corporate officer, Mark is the founding President and CEO of the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors (www.nacdnj.org) and member of the NACD chapter leadership team. Mark's board service began twenty years ago with Abington Healthcare Corporation. A current board member of Swiss-based Trestle Group, Mark is also a professional speaker on the topic of "strategic governance", represented by The Speaker Agency. John Levy John F. Levy is the CEO and principal consultant for Board Advisory Services, a consulting firm established to assist public companies, or companies aspiring to be public with corporate governance, corporate compliance, financial reporting and financial strategies. Mr. Levy has 30 years of progressive financial, accounting and business experience, including having served as chief financial officer of both public and private companies for over 13 years. Mr. Levy currently serves on the Board of Directors and as Audit Committee Chairman of Take Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TTWO) and on the Board of Directors, Lead Director and Audit Committee Chairman of Gilman + Ciocia, Inc. (GTAX.PK). Mr. Levy is a Certified Public Accountant with nine years’ experience with the national public accounting firms of Ernst & Young, Laventhol & Horwath and 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 Lufkin Director at DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Wilmington, Massachusetts HEALTHCARE / DRUG MANUFACTURERS - OTHER Director since January 1992 Richard C. Lufkin, who serves as the Chairman of our Audit Committee 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 is also a co-founder and former Chief Financial Officer of Linguagen Corp., a development-stage, privately-held, biotechnology firm. He is currently serving as secretary and treasurer of Animal Cell Metrology, Inc., a development-stage privately-held biotechnology firm. Jan Margolis Jan Margolis is a Board Member of the Chamber of Commerce and Trinitas Hospital. She is co-founder 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. William McCracken William E. McCracken is a member of the Board of Directors of two Fortune 500 companies, CA International and Ikon Office Solutions, he is President and founder of ECG (Executive Consulting Group). He has done general management and board consulting for companies such as Texas Pacific Group, Loral Space & Communications and IBM. He is also currently serving as the Chairman of the Board of LSM NJ (Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey) one of the states largest providers of affordable housing and is also President of the Plainfield NJ Habitat for Humanity. Mr. McCracken retired from IBM in 2001 after working for IBM for over 36 years. When he retired he was a member of the Chairman’s Worldwide Management Council and was General Manager (President) of the Printing Systems division. Prior to that, he held the posts of General Manager WW marketing, sales and distribution for the IBM PC Company and before that was President of IBM’s EMEA and ASIA PC Company. He has held many sales, marketing, distribution and manufacturing positions during his career, and has a BS in Physics. Hal B. Shear Hal Shear currently serves as an independent director/advisor of three privately-held companies. Hal is Chair of the Executive Advisory Board of Power Skills Solutions, Director of e-tractions, and Chairman of the Board of Milestone Partners. Mr. Shear is President of Board Assets, Inc., which provides governance services to directors and boards throughout the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Prior to his position with Board Assets, Inc., he served for more than 20 years as Chief Executive Officer for Research Investment Advisors, Ltd., an investment advisory firm. He is an advisor to the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and a member of its national faculty, teaching courses throughout the U.S. and internationally. He is a faculty member of the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation’s Director Education program, which trains directors of portfolio companies located throughout the world. He is former Chairman of the NACD New England Chapter, founder and Chairman of a similar group in Silicon Valley, California, and directs the formation of new chapters throughout the United States and internationally. + Click here for our Advisory CommitteeJeanne Achille
Beverly Aisenbrey
Jim Barrood
Glenn C. Davis, CPA
Terry Gallagher
Alyce Halchak
Mike J. Holliday
Frank A. Kissel
Steve Luongo, CPCU, Managing Director,
Richard N.Ottaway, Ph.D, Membership Director
Contact usJames P. O’LearyChapter Administrator NACD-NJ P: 866-648-3369 F: 800-894-3207 E: oleary@nacdnj.org |