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MARCH 2016

BUSINESS MEETINGSSee this month’s event listings.

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RING THE BELLSI Scout rings the bell at Stock Exchange

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SCORECan remote work for your business?

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Special to Business TrendsUniversity Physicians Group, Staten Island’s largest group of physicians practicing in internal medicine and re-lated specialties, is joining Northwell Health, formerly North Shore-LIJ Health System, effective Aug. 1. Pic-tured is Michael Dowling, Northwell president and CEO, and Dr. Theodore Strange, UPG co-founder and execu-tive vice president. For more information, please see page 5.

UPG joining Northwell Health

Stars shineJCC hostsStar of David Awards Dinner

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SINFPA Conference to be

held Friday, April 1The sixth annual Staten Island

NFP Association Conference willtake place on Friday, April 1 at theVanderbilt at South Beach.

The keynote presentation willbe given by Jeff Edmondsen,managing director at Strive To-gether, a national cradle-to-careerinitiative that brings togetherleaders in pre-k-12 schools, highereducation, business and industry,community organizations, gov-

ernment leaders, parents andother stakeholders who are com-mitted to helping children suc-ceed from birth through careers.

In 2012, Edmondsen wasnamed the recipient of the Amer-ican Express NGen LeadershipAward, which honors one accom-plished nonprofit leader age 40and under who has alreadydemonstrated significant impactin addressing society’s criticalneeds. Currently, he is a DraperRichards Kaplan Foundation So-cial Entrepreneur.

Panel discussions will includecase studies in using collectiveimpact to improve organizationalresults and a financial manage-ment clinic, where your financialmanagement questions will beanswered.

Breakout sessions include:• All in together: From Charity

to Change: The all in approach tocollective impact implementation

• Disaster response and recov-

ery – Completing a continuity of operations planThe conference will be held

from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday,April 1, at The Vanderbilt atSouth Beach, 300 Father Capodan-

please see BRIEFS, page 2

MONTHLY UPDATE

By TIM RONALDSON Business Trends

The North Shore of Staten Island has beengetting a lot of attention recently. But follow-

ing a four-month study, the South Shore willsoon be getting its due as well, with thelaunch of a business incubator.

The Staten Island Economic DevelopmentCorp. announced the results of its feasibility

study for a business incubator on the SouthShore, and a few weeks later, it released a re-quest for proposals to individuals and start-

please see INTERESTED page 18

Incubator planned for South Shore


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no Blvd. For more information,visit www.sinfpa.org.

SIMHS gala honorsNew York 1 editor

New York 1 News ExecutiveEditor Melissa Rabinovich andFern Aaron Zagor, president andCEO of the Staten Island Mental

Health Society, will be the hon-orees at the SIMHS’ upcomingAnnual Gala fundraiser on Fri-day, March 18 at the Hilton Gar-den Inn’s Above Ballroom. Rabi-novich will receive the Communi-ty Service Award; Zagor will bepresented with the DistinguishedLeadership Award.

“Under Ms. Rabinovich’s direc-tion, New York 1 News has keptthe public informed about the so-ciety’s important programs andhas shone a light on the activitiesof our hard-working volunteers,”said SIMHS Board of DirectorsChair John Tapinis. “She has

truly done the community a serv-ice by publicizing the value andavailability of our services.”

Zagor took the helm of theSIMHS in 2012. “Fern has led thesociety through several years of sweeping changes in the waymental health services are deliv-ered and financed,” Tapinisnoted. “Her strong and fearlessleadership has kept the society inthe forefront of this shift, whilemaintaining our status as the Is-land’s go-to agency for children’smental health/behavioral healthservices.”

Tickets to the annual gala are$225 per person. Proceeds willbenefit the Staten Island childrenand families who are served bythe mental health society’s di-verse mental health and relatedprograms that assisted more than5,000 children and their familieslast year.

The gala fundraiser, from 7p.m. to midnight, will feature a

cocktail hour followed by a sit-down dinner and dancing to themusic of Sound Explosion. Bud-ding thespians from the SIMHS’Children‘s Theatre AssociationPerforming Arts Company, led byaward-winning Artistic DirectorRosemarie Callahan, will enter-tain.

Throughout the evening, therewill be raffles, auctions andsweepstakes opportunities forguests to win valuable prizes, in-cluding a three-day/two-nightholiday for two at the PGA Na-tional Resort in Palm Beach, Fla.,Yankees tickets, Mets tickets,framed artwork, a puppy and

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joined by Staten Island Scout Jeremy Gaor of Troop 6 (back row, far right).

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Stars shine at annual JCC awardsBy LUIS FONSECA JR.

Special to Business Trends

The Jewish Community Centerof Staten Island has been findingways to help the community forquite some time now, from build-ing day camps in 1932, to

preschools since 1960. It has al-ways been an active helper for thecommunity and Staten Island as awhole.

On Jan. 20, the JCC held anawards dinner at which it recog-nized four individuals. This wasthe first time the JCC had everdone such a thing and thusmarked the start of a new tradi-tion to go along with its countlessothers.

Ruth Lasser, director of com-munications for the JCC, wasgushing with pride when speak-ing about the Star of DavidAwards Dinner.

“This was the start of a newtradition,” she said, “an event tohonor men who have made a dif-ference in our community by theexemplary service they generous-ly provide to the larger communi-ty as well as the Jewish Commu-nity Center of Staten Island.”

The four honorees wereStephen J. Blumert, who receivedthe Mitzvah Award for Outstand-ing Service; Jerold Gross andBernard Kahn, who each receivedthe Menorah Award for VolunteerService; and David Sorkin, whowon the Spirit of Judaism Awardfor Community Leadership.

It was such a high honor forSorkin, the executive director of the JCC, that he actually felt a bitpeculiar receiving it, stating, “Itfeels a bit unusual to be the per-son receiving the award since I’musually the person presentingone. It’s a wonderful honor to be

with this group of dedicated menand to be recognized for whateach of us does for our communi-ty.”

Working with the JCC for thepast 10 years, Sorkin is nostranger to handing out awards.Although he has only been at theJCC on Staten Island for a decade,he is no stranger to the executivedirector position, being that hehas held that position in Staten Is-land and other locations for 30-plus years.

With a crowd of approximately180 people, each man was present-ed his award and gave a heartfelt

speech of thanks. One speech inparticular that had a strong effectwas the one made by Kahn whenhe suggested if anyone in atten-dance was looking to make a do-nation in their honor to insteadmake the donation to Sunrise DayCamp, which, according to Lass-er, is “a new program the JCC isstarting this summer that willprovide summer camp fun forchildren with cancer and theirsiblings free of charge.”

Each award was engraved witha quote that Lasser says, “reallycaptures the sentiment.” The quo-tation was “Each and every per-son has a star in heaven and ac-cording to his deeds does itshine.”

Lasser summed it up perfectlywhen she said, “By the end of theevening, it was obvious that thesefour men have stars that shinebrightly.”

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Northwell Health welcomesStaten Island medical group

University Physicians Group,Staten Island’s largest group of physicians practicing in internalmedicine and related specialties,is joining Northwell Health, for-merly North Shore-LIJ HealthSystem, effective Aug. 1.

Northwell Health Presidentand Chief Executive OfficerMichael Dowling and TheodoreStrange, MD, UPG’s executivevice president and co-founder,signed an agreement that official-

ly integrates UPG into the healthsystem’s medical group practice,called Northwell Health Physi-cian Partners.

“This is a win-win for our pa-tients and physicians,” Strangesaid.

Patients cared for by UPG’snearly 50 physicians at 25 officelocations in Staten Island and

Brooklyn will have access toNorthwell’s vast resources, whichextend from eastern Long Islandto Manhattan, Staten Island,Brooklyn, Queens and Westch-ester County. The health systemincludes 21 hospitals and about450 outpatient physician prac-tices and other ambulatory loca-tions.

“For our physician practices,being part of Northwell repre-sents a new era of providing qual-

ity care in the most cost-effectiveway by being a fully integratedpractice within Northwell HealthPhysician Partners,” Strangesaid.

With more than 2,500 members,Northwell Health Physician Part-ners is the seventh-largest physi-cian group practice in the coun-try. UPG was founded by Strange

and Vincent Calamia, MD. Origi-nally part of Staten Island Uni-versity Hospital, UPG spun off asan independent PC in 2002. Sever-al of UPG physician memberswill continue to act in clinicalleadership roles at SIUH. BesidesStrange, UPG officers include Jef-frey Hyman, medical director; Al-bert Esposito, associate executivedirector; and John Szeluga, fi-nance officer.

“UPG joining us is a dynamic

part of our role in the new para-digm of health care,” Dowlingsaid. “At Northwell, we’re broad-ening access to quality healthcare across all of the communi-ties we serve throughout the met-ropolitan area as part of an effortto promote health and wellness,prevent disease and keep peopleout of the hospital.”


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in our opinion

Passed over yet again When will city help Staten Island with its transportation problems?


Here we go again. Anothermass transit plan for the cityof New York, and yet another

blind eye turned to Staten Island’stransportation needs.

Last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio an-nounced plans to launch a new street-car service called the Brooklyn-Queens Connector (BQX) that willstretch 16 miles from Astoria inQueens to Sunset Park in Brooklyn. Itis anticipated to serve 50,0000 passen-gers per day.

It’s a $2.5 billion project that is beingtouted by city officials as filling an es-sential need in transportation for that

section of the city, and an economicdriver that could “spark more than $25

billion in economic impact over thenext three decades,” NYCEDC Presi-dent Maria Torres-Springer said.

It’s also yet another example of how,despite the serious need for a masstransit solution here in our borough – and despite the fact that the need isgoing to grow substantially with theprojected influx of visitors to the Is-land with all the development under-way – city officials continue to passStaten Island over. Staten Islanders,and those who visit the borough, areforced to drive just about everywherethey want to go, and that makes thecommute times on the Island some of

the highest in the country. Differentgroups have proposed solutions to the

problem – projects such as the NorthShore Bus Rapid Transit and a WestShore Light Rail, for example. ThatNorth Shore BRT looks like it could fi-nally happen, with the MetropolitanTransportation Authority last year ap-proving funding for environmentaland design work, but more is needed.

As borough officials have stated inresponse to the BQX, it’s not about pit-ting one city borough against another;it’s about addressing the needs of thepeople who live in the city, no matterwhat borough they reside in.

Staten Island needs some form of additional mass transit, and it needs it

now. Will someone please answer ourplea?

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By BRIDGET WESTON POLLACK

The power of technology has made itpossible to do business not only acrosstown, but across the world. Who knows – your small business might not even havean office, complete with rent, a mail slotand utility bills. If your small business spe-cializes in services or digital products, youmay never even meet your employees inperson!

Teams who work remotely have the flex-ibility to do great work regardless of loca-tion, time zone or method of transporta-tion. Thanks to online collaboration toolsand mobile devices, working remotely is

just as routine now as using a fax machinewas 15 years ago.

If you manage a remote team or arethinking of adding remote team membersto your small business family, read on.You’ll want to consider a few items before

letting your team loose on your company’sto-do lists.

Communicate early and oftenCommunication with your team is al-

most more important in a remote environ-ment than it is in a traditional office. Work-ing alone for hours or days at a time canmake employees feel isolated and discon-nected from your team’s goals. It can seemmore difficult to get the support they needwhen employees can’t just drop by your of-fice for a minute or two.

Using email or instant messaging sys-tems can fill some communications gaps,but remember that tone can get lost in text.What might be said with a hearty laughand a warm smile at the conference tablemight be construed as sarcasm or angerover email, where body language can’t bediscerned.

So when it comes to communication,

mix it up, and do it often. Supplementemail or instant message conversations

with video chats, phone check-ins or per-haps an annual meeting that brings thewhole team to one location to plan for theyear to come.

Develop remote work policiesJust because your team might work in a

variety of locations doesn’t mean the workday is a free-for-all. Enact remote-workpolicies that help your team work togetherwhile still maintaining a sense of profes-sionalism.

For example, you might want to setworking hours when it’s acceptable forteam members to call upon one another. If your team spans time zones, this may bemore difficult to enforce, but you may stillbe able to find overlapping work periodsamong your staff.

Set a recurring time and method to host

remote team meetings; for instance: EveryMonday at 9:30 a.m. on Google Hangouts. If

your team can expect to catch up with oneanother at a specific time, they’ll better beable to plan their days around these typicalcommitments – and plan their progress inbetween meetings.

What about sick days? Working fromhome doesn’t mean a cold or flu won’t de-rail an employee’s productivity. Encourageemployees to take their allotted sick dayswhen necessary to make sure they’re atpeak performance when they clock backin.

Choose the right toolsRemote collaboration requires the right

tools to get the job done. If you’re just start-ing to build your remote team, considersome of the online collaboration programs

Can remote work for your business?

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MONDAYBus. Outreach Ctr of SI/WBCLDCSmall Bus. Counseling –MWBE/BOC Capital: WBCLDC, 705

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Rd. 7 p.m. Call 718-420-1966.College of S.I., Small Bus. Dev. Ctr.Business Counseling: CSI, 2800Victory Blvd. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nocharge. For info, call the SBDC at

718-982-2560.

TUESDAYGreater New Dorp NetworkingGroup: 8 a.m. Perkins, 1409 HylanBlvd. For information, call Steve

Lombardo at 718-702-8623.Richmond Business Connections:Z One, 1821 Richmond Ave. 8 a.m.For information, call Ronald P.Cutrone at (347) 258-8131.SI Business Friends: 7:30 - 8:45a.m. Hilton Garden Inn, 1100 SouthAve. For information, call Dr. RichardBove at 718-938-5978 or visitwww.sibfnetwork.com.Bus. Outreach Ctr of SI/WBCLDCSmall Bus. Counseling –MWBE/BOC Capital: WBCLDC, 705Forest Ave., 2nd Fl. By appointment

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Business Counseling: Chamber ofCommerce, 130 Bay St. 9 a.m. Nocharge. Call 718-982-2560.College of S.I., Small Bus. Dev. Ctr.Business Counseling: CSI, 2800Victory Blvd. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nocharge. Call the SBDC at 982-2560.

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more.SIMHS board member Victoria

Drumbakis is chairing the 2016Gala; Robert Cutrona, Sr. andTapinis are co-chairing the GalaJournal. Other members of theGala Committee are Robert DeGennaro, Arlene Donovan, AlLambert, Robin Lefkowitz, HughMaxwell, Elizabeth Palagiano,Bernadette Paulo, Rabinovich,

Andrea Zurlo and Ralph Zurlo.For information and reserva-tions, call Maryann Striffolino, di-rector of volunteer services, at(718) 442-2225, e-mail [email protected] or visitwww.simhs.org.

Northwell Healthdebuts Super Bowl adNorthwell Health, formerly

North Shore-LIJ Health System,showcased its new advertisingcampaign during Super Bowl L,with a new 30-second spot thataired in the second quarter andtwo 30-second ads that ran duringthe pregame coverage.

The entire cost of the ads wascovered through a contributionfrom a Northwell Health trustee,who wishes to remain anony-mous.

The in-game spot focused on acelebration of life, capturing thefirst babies born at NorthwellHealth hospitals. The spot alsohighlighted the North Shore-LIJ’sname change to NorthwellHealth. The emotional ad under-scores the health system’s criti-cally important role in deliveringmore than 42,000 babies a year, ac-counting for about 17 percent of all births throughout New York

State and 1 percent of the nation-wide total.“As the most-watched event on

American television, the SuperBowl is a powerful venue to tellour story of innovation,” saidRamon Soto, Northwell’s seniorvice president and chief market-ing and communications officer.“Our new ad conveys our com-mitment to caring for these pre-cious newborns and their fami-lies throughout their lifetimes.”

The ad footage was shot sec-onds after the stroke of midnighton New Year’s Day, and featurestouching footage of new momsand their babies embracing forthe first time.

The first version of the ad,broadcast within hours of thebirth on Jan. 1, has generatedmore than 2 million viewsthrough Northwell’s social mediaoutreach.

“We are trying to take a differ-ent approach with our ads thanother health-care providers thatfeature testimonials of patientswho've recovered from disease,”Soto said. “For us, this is truly acelebration of life. Where othersmay see them as just newborn ba-bies, we see people whom we willbe looking after and keepinghealthy their whole lives. It's amuch more positive way to tapinto that emotion.”

The ads are part of NorthwellHealth’s robust 360-degree re-branding and marketing cam-

paign and new tag line, “LookNorth.” Created with advertisingagency J. Walter Thompson NewYork, the campaign introducesNorthwell’s new name, website,tagline, logo and philosophy to

millions of consumers through-out the New York metropolitanarea and provides a look intoNorthwell’s vision for shapingthe future of health care.

To view previously released TVads or learn more about North-well’s stories of innovation, go towww.northwell.edu/looknorth.

March for Meals eventbeing held March 23

In celebration of the 14th An-nual March for Meals, Meals onWheels of Staten Island inviteslocal community leaders, both

public and private, to delivermeals to the homebound elderlyas part of its “Community Cham-pions Day.” The event will be heldon March 23 at 9 a.m. at HistoricRichmond Town – third CountyCourthouse, located at 441 ClarkeAve. The day will begin with amorning ceremony declaring it“March for Meals Day.”

Keeping with the theme, Apple-Metro will host a “Dine-to-Do-nate” event to benefit Meals onWheels of Staten Island, at thefour Applebee’s locations on Stat-en Island. Patrons will need theApplebee’s flyer to present totheir service (available for down-load at facebook.com/Meals-on-Wheels-of-Staten-Island-Inc.) tohave 15 percent of their bill do-nated back to Meals on Wheels of Staten Island. The mission of Meals on Wheels of Staten Islandis to provide two nutritious mealseach day to 1,100 seniors who areunable to shop for or preparetheir own meals. Volunteers de-liver 80 percent of all home-deliv-ered meals.

Each March, Meals on Wheelsprograms from across the coun-try join together in the “Marchfor Meals” to celebrate the provencollaboration of local communityorganizations, businesses, all lev-els of government and compas-sionate individuals to ensure thatour seniors are not forgotten.

This event is part of March forMeals’ special Community Cham-

pions Week. Between Monday,March 21 and Friday, March 25,Meals on Wheels programs fromacross the country will invite


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that can make managing yourteam easier:

• For managing projects: Base-camp, Trello, Smartsheet orAsana

• For storing files: Dropbox,Box, Apple iCloud or Google

Drive• For editing documents or

products: Google Drive, Zoho, Boxor Microsoft Office 365

• For hosting meetings: Go-ToMeeting, Skype, AnyMeetingor Google Hangouts

• For keeping email to a mini-mum: Slack, Skype, Flow, orGroupMe

Are you interested in integrat-ing remote work policies intoyour small business? Meet with a

SCORE mentor to discuss yourneeds and goals.

Bridget Weston Pollack is the vicepresident of marketing and commu-nications at the SCORE Association.In this role, Bridget is responsible forall branding, marketing, PR and com-munication efforts. She focuses onimplementing marketing plans andstrategies for the organization to fa-cilitate the growth of SCORE’s men-toring and trainings services.


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info, email [email protected] Island Business Council:Andrew’s Diner, 4160 Hylan Blvd. 7a.m. Members and invited guestsonly. For info, call 347-855-4488 orsend an e-mail to [email protected] .Bucks Business Network: Hamp-ton Inn, 1120 South Ave. 7:45 a.m.For info, call 718-351-2557 or visi twww.sibucks.com .Kiwanis Club of Brighton: Jody’s

Club Forest, 372 Forest Ave. 7:30p.m. For info, call 718-348-0505.Kiwanis Club of North Central:LiGreci’s Staten, 697 Forest Ave.7:30 p.m. Call Len Bosso at 718-442-7804.Gateway Rotary Club: LaStrada,139 New Dorp Ln. 7:15 p.m. For info,call 718-447-1509.SCORE Business Counseling:Chamber of Commerce, 130 Bay St.9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointment neces-

sary. No charge. Call 718-727-1221.E.L.I.T.E. (Executive, Leadership,Interactive, Team, Effort) Net-working Group: 1110 South Ave. 8a.m. New members welcome. Forinfo, call 347-273-1375.College of S.I., Small Bus. Dev. Ctr.Business Counseling: CSI, 2800Victory Blvd. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Forinfo, call 718-982-2560.

THURSDAYBus. Outreach Ctr of SI/WBCLDCSmall Bus. Counseling –MWBE/BOC Capital: WBCLDC, 705Forest Ave., 2nd Fl. By appointment

only. For info, call 718-816-4775.Kiwanis Club of Staten Island:LiGreci’s Staten, 697 Forest Ave.7:30 p.m. For info, call 718-967-4345or kiwanisclubofstatenisland.com.Rotary Club of South Shore: Man-sion Grand, 141 Mansion Ave. 12:15p.m. For info, call 718-987-2061 orvisit southshorerotary.org .Rotary Club Mid-Island: New Dako-ta Diner, 921 Richmond Ave. 7:30 to9:00 a.m. Call 718-981-0700.SCORE Business Counseling: SIBank & Trust, 1550 Richmond Rd. 9a.m. to noon. No appointment nec-essary. No charge. Call 718-727-1221.Rotary Club of North Shore: LiGre-ci’s Staten, 697 Forest Ave. 7 p.m.For info, call Christine DeHart at718-448-4725.Business Network Int’l. (BNI) HighAchievers Chapter: PK’s Restau-rant,1281 Arthur Kill Rd. 7 to 8:30

a.m. For info, call Timothy Houstonat 718-981-8600.Business Guild II of the S.I. Cham-ber of Commerce: Hilton GardenInn, 1100 South Ave. 7:45 to 8:45a.m. Members and invited guestsonly. For info, call Lou Rizzo at 718-490-0057.Business Guild III of the SI Cham-ber of Commerce: Hilton GardenInn, 1100 South Ave. 8 a.m. Newmembers welcome. Call Nick Testaat 646-823-4494.College of S.I., Small Bus. Dev. Ctr.Business Counseling: CSI, 2800Victory Blvd. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Forinfo, call 718-982-2560.Community Emergency ResponseTeam (CERT): 7 p.m. For info. andlocations, call John Tidona at 448-7160 or [email protected] .

FRIDAYBus. Outreach Ctr of SI/WBCLDCSmall Bus. Counseling –MWBE/BOC Capital: WBCLDC, 705Forest Ave., 2nd Fl. By appointmentonly. For info, call 718-816-4775.

SATURDAYSCORE Business Counseling: St.George Library, 5 Central Ave. 10a.m. to noon. Appointment neces-sary. No charge. Call 718-442-8560.SCORE Business Counseling: Rich-mondtown Library, 200 Clarke Ave.10 to 11:30 a.m. Appointment neces-sary. For info, call 718-668-0413.


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Marco earns accreditationSince its inception, more than

2,100 professionals have earnedInFRE's Certified RetirementCounselor certification world-wide. William John Marco, of Marco Wealth Strategies Group,

Inc. in Staten Island, and GardenCity,LI, is the most recent recipi-ent.

Seventy-eight million Ameri-cans plan to retire over the next18 years, and according to InFRE,

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elected officials, local celebritiesand other prominent figures todeliver meals, speak out for sen-iors and raise awareness for thepower of Meals on Wheels.

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Exiger awarded citycontract for four years

Exiger, the global regulatoryand financial crime, risk andcompliance firm, announced thatit has been awarded a four-yearcontract to provide integritymonitoring services to the NewYork City Department of Investi-gation. Under the contract, Ex-iger will implement a construc-tion integrity monitoring pro-gram to oversee the New YorkCity Housing Authority’s expen-diture of nearly $3 billion in fed-eral disaster relief funds, recent-

ly secured for post-Super StormSandy repairs to more than 33housing projects in Brooklyn,Queens, Staten Island and Man-hattan.

The Exiger monitorship team,led by Managing Directors DanielR. Alonso and ChristopherPrather, will deploy a team of pro-fessionals, including forensic en-gineers, analysts and account-ants, to assist DOI and theNYCHA inspector general intheir efforts to deter and detectfraudulent, wasteful or abusiveconduct by contractors and sub-contractors. The use of an in-tegrity monitor on major NewYork City construction projectshas been a longstanding policy of the Department of Investigationand other city and state agencies.Alonso and Prather, former feder-al and state prosecutors, are ca-reer integrity professionals withdeep backgrounds in integritymonitoring, fraud prevention and

the construction industry.Construction projects that willbe initiated under the HurricaneSandy relief program have justbegun to get underway, with allprojects anticipated to be in

progress by June. While eachproject is unique, the core focus of the program is to provide for therepair, replacement or relocationto higher ground of heating andelectrical equipment damaged bysalt water that infiltrated andflooded buildings during thestorm. Flood proofing and re-siliency construction are also in-cluded in the scope of many of the projects.

Celerant Technologyamong the best

RIS News Magazine has an-nounced its 15th annual Leader-Board of best technology vendorsin retail, and Staten Island-basedCelerant Technology took the topspot for leader in Technology In-novation. The company also onceagain won the No. 2 spot in thecoveted top software provider cat-egory for the second year in a row.Additionally, Celerant reclaimedthe No. 1 position in apparel ven-dor and top specialty retail cate-gories, repeating its performancefrom 2014. The top rankings in

the apparel and specialty marketswere attributed to Celerant’s“broad suite” approach that of-fers a full, single solution thatworks for both apparel and spe-cialty retailers.

Celerant ranked highly in sev-eral other categories, securingtop five positions in retail concen-tration, overall performance,total cost of operations, ROI, soft-ware reliability, quality of servic-es, recommendation, mid-sizedvendor and broad suite vendor.This marks the 12th consecutiveyear Celerant has secured top po-sitions in the listing.

Celerant’s flagship platform,Command Retail, is the premiersolution for managing criticalpoints of retail operations in real-time. Celerant is also an industryleader in developing E-Commercewebsites that integrate seamless-ly with existing software imple-mentations within one, singledatabase to provide native om-

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ment counselors qualified to ad-dress the needs of the enormousnumber of individuals – as manyas 10,000 a day – who plan to retirebut will not be retirement readyfor this financial and emotionaltransition.

Achieving this certificationtypically requires dozens of hours of studying, reading andclassroom review before sittingfor a four-hour exam. In addition,certificants must meet specificeducation and experience re-quirements, possess a bachelor'sdegree or higher from an accred-ited college or university, andhave a minimum of two years of relevant retirement-related pro-fessional experience. Candidatesare also subject to a comprehen-sive background check once allother requirements have been

met. Each certificant must sign aCode of Ethics and commit to anadditional 15 hours of annualcontinuing education.

The retirement-specific pro-gram ensures that those who re-ceive the certification will beproperly equipped to assist thetremendous retirement challengefacing all Americans.

According to the InFRE web-site, its mission is to “protect thegeneral public by advancingrecognition among retirementplanning professionals of theneed for continuing education, acode of ethics and professionalcertification for retirement coun-selors.” The Certified RetirementCounselor program is accreditedby the National Commission of Certifying Agencies, which ap-plies rigorous, independent stan-dards designed to protect thehealth, welfare and safety of thepublic to its approval process.

Marco Wealth Strategies’ ap-proach to retirement planninguses an income for life strategy to

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“With 10,000 baby boomersturning age 65 every day in ourcountry, we believe it’s imperativeto have the knowledge and certifi-cations to address the specific fi-nancial requirements of this de-mographic. The Certified Retire-ment Counselor, Certified WealthStrategist and Accredited AssetManagement Specialist designa-tions have well prepared our firmto meet this need,” Marco said.

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up companies interested in apply-ing for admission into the pro-gram.

The study, which was fundedthrough a $50,000 grant from Em-pire State Development throughthe New York State RegionalCouncil and with support fromformer city Councilman VincentIgnizio, will serve as a “centralcomponent for adaptive reuse inthe South Shore,” according tothe SIEDC. Conducted by MatrixNew World Engineering, thestudy included an in-depth re-view of economic, market, demo-graphic, land use and transporta-tion data. It also included exten-sive site visits and analysis of business incubators and similar

facilities in New York City.

“We are pleased that the studyhas confirmed what we hoped – that the South Shore is a viable lo-cation for the creation of an incu-bator that would include co-work-ing and event space, an anchortenant and a business acceleratorin the same facility,” said Cesar J.Claro, the SIEDC’s president andCEO. “The project will encouragestart-ups to consider Staten Is-land as a viable destination andwill feature flexible, turnkeyworkspaces such as pod offices, abusiness lounge, conferencerooms, administrative and mailservices. Ultimately, we hope theincubator will help retain and at-tract small businesses to theseneighborhoods and demonstratethe importance of collective plan-ning and marketing for the area.”

The SIEDC said it feels afford-able and accessible workspace isneeded throughout the boroughto accommodate modern de-mands. As such, the mission of

the incubator is to “stimulate theestablishment and growth of start-up companies and othercompatible businesses on StatenIsland and to help facilitate theirgrowth and success. By fulfillingthis mission, the proposed projectwill create jobs, provide essentialbusiness services and contributeto the economic developmentgoals of the SIEDC.”

The incubator will demon-strate the importance of collec-tive planning and marketing forthe entire Business ImprovementDistrict area, officials said.

The feasibility study had fivekey findings, according to theSIEDC. Among them:

• The proposed location of thebusiness incubator is a propertylocated at 3970 Amboy Road. TheSIEDC says the property containsfull renovated office space thatcould house the incubator, and itis only 350 feet from the GreatKills Train Station.

• A mixed-use business incuba-

tor will be the most suitable type

to establish, and could contain avariety of businesses such aslegal, insurance, architectural,engineering, marketing and otherservice-oriented uses. The incu-bator could look to build specialtyservice clusters in the SouthShore, such as information tech-nology and media.

• The incubator could be estab-lished as a non-profit entity, as itcould allow the organization toapply for more grants and fund-ing programs.

• The study assumed the facili-ty would contain a total of 2 ,500square feet of space, comprised of three business incubator offices,three co-working spaces, 600square feet of anchor tenant of-fice space, event space, a loungearea, a private video/phone con-ferencing booth, an executive di-rector’s office, a reception area,shared co-working desk space,two conference rooms, and othercommon and utility areas.

• The study found that themixed-use business incubatorproposed could be financially self-sustaining by the end of yearthree. To do so, though, initialuses and programming wouldneed to be primarily oriented to-ward revenue-generating usessuch as co-working and anchortenants as well as a business ac-celerator program to facilitate fi-nancial stability in that time-frame.

Interested applicants to thebusiness incubator are asked tofill out an application available onthe SIEDC’s website,www.siedc.org. Responses are dueprior to May 10 to be consideredfor participation. A full copy of the study is also available on thewebsite.

For more information, interest-ed parties are encouraged to at-tend a free seminar scheduled atthe annual SIEDC Business Con-ference on April 27 at the Hilton

Garden Inn.


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