Our Board

Chair

Jessica Brown

Comptroller

Erie County Water Authority

Vice Chair

Andrenee Smith

Retired

Project/Operational Management & Finance

Treasurer 

Scott Swan

Business Banking Officer

Evans Bank

Secretary

Dr. Samantha Bordonaro

UBMD Emergency Medicine

Lani Churley

Associate Vice President

People Inc.

Heather Cruz

Vice Dean/Chief of Staff, School of Social Work

University at Buffalo

Cynthia Hammer

Senior Vice President

Assured Partners

Peter Herman

Owner

Tipico Coffee

Christine Marrano

Chief Human Resources Officer

Goldberg Segalla

Tim McKeever

VP of Human Resources

Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center

Francesca Mesiah

Sr. Marketing Associate, Community Relations

Kaleida Health

Kenneth Quinney

Retired

Ford Motor Company

Lawrence Ross

Attorney

Hurwitz Fine PC

Nicole Staszak

Associate Vice President, Quality Improvement

People Inc.

David Zapfel

President/CEO

Gerard Place

Chair

Sandra M. Calandra

Human Resources Consultant

Vice Chair

John Sinclair

Director, Business Development

Hoffman Hanafin Insurance

Treasurer

Donna Nocera Perna

President/Owner

Transit Lanes & Kegler’s 

Secretary

Jenna Luehrsen

Senior Account Manager

Crowley Webb

Cynthia Hammer

Senior Vice President

Assured Partners

Shannon Lach

Business Consultant

PEAR Consulting

Carlisle Lipke

Events and Alumni Manager

Leadership Buffalo

Jordan Modrzynski, Esq.

Supervising Attorney, Evictions

Western New York Law Center

Stefania Talarico

Solutions Consultant/Business Development

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