CEL Advisory Board and Founders

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.

Stuart Angert
Independent Health Foundation
Chairman
Chair, Board of Directors

Thomas Beauford Jr.
The Buffalo Urban League
President

Heather Bellini
Heather Bellini Photography
Chair - CELAA

Jeffrey Benty                                                      
American Pride Products LLC
CEO

David Cervi                                                         
Personal Touch Food Service, Inc.
President

Kathleen Chiavetta                                         
Chiavetta's Catering & Chicken BBQ
COO, Director of Bus. Dev.

John Cinquino
Evans Bank
Vice President

Mary Collins Sanborn
Collins Advisors, LLC
President

Sherry Dellebovi
Lumsden McCormick LLP
Partner

Deborah DiMatteo
M&T Bank
Vice President

Joe Fox
TrainSmart
President

Craig  Garner
Ivoclar Vivadent
Director of Operational Excellence

Joan Graci
APASolutions Inc.
President

John Hogg
Straight Forward Consulting
President

Laurie Irish-Jones
Irish Companies
CEO

Ananth Iyer
UB School of Management
Dean

Chuck Koller
Accounting Group of WNY
Partner

Jordan Lema
Lemur Studios
Owner, CEO

Denise Neamon
The Bonadio Group
Partner

Thomas Palmer
UB School of Management
Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Executive In Residence

Frederick Saia
Oneida Group/Iroquois Bar Corp.
President

Kathy Snyder
Beaver Hollow Conference Center
President/COO

Susan Steffan
UB School of Management
Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Executive Director

Randy Strauss
StraussGroup Inc.
Owner, Managing Partner

Edward Tierney
PracticalHRO
Partner

Cynthia Walawander
Woley Analytics
Founder

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

Contributing Founders

Salvatore Alfiero

Paul Snyder

Stuart Angert

Fred Saia

Stephen Hunt

Keith Stolzenburg

Honorary Founders

Franklyn S. Barry Jr.

Dan Brown

John D. Cannon

Frank L. Ciminelli

Randall L. Clark

Tom Culligan

William P. Hart

James A. Hoover

Laurence A. Levite

Gerald S. Lippes

Herb Mennen

Carl J. Montante

Frank R. Nero Sr.

Henry P. Semmelhack

Joseph E. Wolfson

Founding Policy Council Members

Joseph Alutto

Paul Willax