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Peter D. Kiernan’s is a tale of two careers. For 20 years he was a Wall Street investment banker, most of that time as a partner at Goldman Sachs. He left to form a venture firm that backed start- up and early stage companies and was also president of a multi-billion dollar hedge fund. One day an old friend, Dana Reeve, asked him to take over the foundation that she and her late husband, actor Chris Reeve, had created years before after an accident left the former Superman star wheel chair bound. Within days of Kiernan’s assent, Dana lost her own battle with lung cancer. A new career began. For the next five years Kiernan transformed the ailing foundation, traveling the globe raising funds for research and bold new therapies, meeting with the best scientists in the field, and rallying the support of Washington decision makers, state governors, party leadership and corporate chieftains. Following Chris Reeve’s lead, Kiernan consolidated offices and helped the foundation create a revolutionary open architecture approach to paralysis research. He called it a laboratory without walls. In fact it was a consortium of the world’s great thinkers about paralysis who were managed to collaborate rather than work in isolation. Working the halls of Congress, the foundation was able to get the first law passed to fund paralysis research in our nation’s history: The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Act. Kiernan was also a tireless advocate for the passage of embryonic stem cell legislation and the overturn of the Bush ban on federal funding for stem cell research. What he found in speaking to Washington leaders surprised him—the data and demographics they were using were hopelessly out of date. Gathering other non-profits and academic institutions, the Reeve Foundation conducted the largest survey in history aimed at uncovering the details of the lives and experiences of people who are paralyzed and spinal-cord injured. The results of the 30,000-person survey were highly illuminating. Nearly 1 in 6 Americans is paralyzed and the number of spinal cord injuries was five times larger than what the federal government presumed. Kiernan met with leaders of the Centers of Disease Control to implement special locomotor treadmill training sites at select locations around the country. Kiernan’s next move at Reeve was to engage the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs to create better re-entry and therapies for paralyzed veterans, especially when they left the armed forces. By mobilizing the non-profit world, government agencies, corporations, Congressional leaders, individual citizens and the military against a common foe, Kiernan and the Reeve Foundation saw greater progress in getting paralyzed Americans greater recovery of function. And with increasing frequency the work of the foundation meant that people who came wheeling in, after intense work and dedication would come walking out. The number is still a minority of the cases the foundation encounters. But slowly and steadily the percentage is growing. Kiernan says that scientists call that a “motivating factor” but nothing compares to the joy of watching a young person who has been confined to a wheelchair stand up for the first time. That is a joy.
The Rezolve Group (www.RezolveGroup.com) is passionate about the importance of student financial aid and plays a leading role in improving access to it and developing an individual’s understanding of their aid eligibility. Many students and professionals across all disciplines need post-secondary education yet struggle with its high cost, especially since the economic downturn. Rezolve Group believes any able student should have access to an affordable post-secondary education, regardless of their personal or financial situation.
Rezolve’s subsidiary, Student Aid Services Inc., is the nation’s leading provider of student aid assessment technologies to the higher education industry. Its innovative technology assists the admissions and financial aid offices of postsecondary institutions with a comprehensive and flexible net price calculator technology. Net Price calculators help students obtain an accurate estimate of the cost for their education. The company’s ThinkAhead™ Net Price Calculator employs the most up-to-date technology, making it the most powerful, flexible net price calculator available. This utility allows students at nearly 600 campuses nationwide to figure out the net cost of their education, enabling them to make informed decisions about their college plans. The company also maintains the www.studentaid.com website, which features the College Cost & Planning Report®, which helps students compare the net costs of college at up to ten colleges of interest.
The company’s other subsidiary Student Financial Aid Services, Inc. is the nation’s oldest and largest FAFSA preparation and advisory service. Founded by a prominent former director of student financial aid in 1991, the company offers a variety of assistance services online and via telephone consultations. Clients are informed about the full array of federal, state and military aid programs, and receive step-by-step assistance preparing the federal student aid application (FAFSA). Low-income students and their families can receive free assistance with the FAFSA and college planning through the company’s Access for All® program, which during the past few years has helped tens of thousands of students.
Established in 1963 with a single used-car lot, the Bob Rohrman Auto Group has since exploded into a thriving business with dozens of dealerships in Illinois and Indiana. Selling tens of thousands of new and pre-owned vehicles per year, the Bob Rohrman Auto Group represents over 16 name brands, including Ford, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Lexus, Subaru, and Nissan.
Bob Rohrman Auto Group’s success in selling automobiles from these manufacturers has earned it a great deal of recognition. On eight occasions, Bob Rohrman Auto Group has earned the Toyota Quality Dealer Award. It has also received the Toyota President’s Award and been given the Honda National Quality Dealer Award six times in addition to the American Honda President’s Award. Bob Rohrman Auto Group has also been a recipient of the Elite of Lexus Award in recognition of the company’s reputation for customer satisfaction. Mitsubishi, Subaru, Acura, and Nissan have also recognized Bob Rohrman Auto Group for its quality, customer service, and sales acumen. Bob Rohrman Auto Group’s other honors include the Sports Illustrated Dealers of Distinction Award, the 2005 Westmont Business of the Year Award, and the 2010 Westmont Community Service Award.
Bob Rohrman Auto Group also maintains a commitment to community service, which it performs through many programs and sponsorships. Groups that have benefited from Bob Rohrman Auto Group’s devotion to charitable causes include the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America; United Way of Greater Lafayette; Lyn Treece Boys & Girls Club; the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana’s Fruitful Harvest Campaign; Group Homes for Children, Inc.; Lafayette’s Colt World Series; and Fort Wayne Community Schools.
Natalie Liberatore holds experience as a special education teacher who has worked closely with young children in a variety of settings. While still an undergraduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Natalie Liberatore assisted children with autism at the Neuropsychiatric Institute, where she performed a detailed analysis of early-intervention strategies; the results of her research were eventually published in the Pacific State Archives. Natalie Liberatore also served as a Special Education Intern at the McKinley Preschool in Santa Monica, California, where she collaborated with other educators seeking to support children with a variety of learning and communication difficulties.rnrnFollowing her graduation from UCLA with honors in 2005, Natalie Liberatore became a Senior Instructional Companion at the Tarzana, California-based Institute for Applied Behavioral Analysis. She provided behavioral therapy to young children on the autism spectrum in classroom, home, and community settings. She also analyzed data, prepared progress reports, coordinated daily activities for each child’s instructional team, and trained new staff members. From 2006 to 2011, Natalie Liberatore worked in the classrooms of Arbor Bay School: as a kindergarten, third-grade, and fourth-grade Co-Teacher and as Lead Teacher of a modified first-grade classroom for students with moderate learning and language disabilities. Currently, Natalie Liberatore divides her time between serving as a Special Education Tutor for students at Arbor Bay School and the surrounding community and working privately with two children, ages three and five, in the San Carlos, California, area.
Natalie Liberatore received her Education Specialist Credential in Mild to Moderate Disabilities in 2010 from San Francisco State University, where she also pursues a Master of Arts in Special Education. She actively contributes to Walk Now for Autism in the Bay Area and supports the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. In her spare time, Liberatore enjoys cooking, reading, and spending time with friends and family.
S & Z Capital & Development, LLC, is a real estate investment and development company based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded by Partners Solomon Steinlauf and Zeev Sandman in 2005, S & Z Capital & Development leads the real estate field. The partners offer over 30 years of combined experience in acquisition, management, and brokerage of New York real estate, as well as in rehabilitation and development of various properties.
A veteran of the real estate industry, Solomon Steinlauf served more than 17 years as a top producing property broker and REO specialist before forming S & Z Capital & Development. Zeev Sandman draws on 14 years of experience in the real estate sector. Before helping found the company, he worked as a Real Estate Agent in commercial and residential markets. A graduate of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, he holds a degree in urban planning.
S & Z Capital & Development maintains an in-house construction and remodeling crew who can quickly renovate and upgrade acquired properties to reflect the style and elegance often associated with city living. Known for high standards and quality properties, S & Z Capital & Development manages commercial and residential buildings in Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn.
Focusing on underperforming, quality real estate, S & Z Capital & Development seeks to acquire such properties, execute upgrades to revitalize the buildings, and recapture profitability and usability. S & Z Capital & Development’s team presently focuses on emerging locations, as well as areas currently experiencing their prime.
A leader in the world tourism market, Gavin Tollman works steadily to increase the popularity and enjoyment of travel to all areas of the world. He has made important inroads in the South African tourism market and is now including Asia in his list of important destinations. He is the CEO of Trafalgar, a popular tour operator, and is Chairman at The Travel Corporation (TTC) South Africa, which is a conglomerate of many of the world’s leading travel companies.
Strong Ties to South Africa
Gavin Tollman was not only born in South Africa, but was also born into a family that was well established in the travel and tourism business. He has maintained those connections and works with South African government officials to make South Africa more accessible and attractive to foreign visitors. The Travel Corporation held its 2010 Global Sales Conference in Cape Town and used the event to host more than 350 international tourism business leaders for the meetings and tourist related activities. An announcement was made during the course of the conference regarding a two-year strategic alliance that had been formed between TTC and the South African Department of Tourism. According to the agreement, the two bodies will cooperate in marketing, promoting and developing the tourist market to South Africa through Destination South Africa.
There were also activities planned that enabled the conference participants to interact with the local residents. One of those activities had long-lasting effects, as the tourism professionals worked together to build small houses, which they later donated to the underprivileged citizens of Cape Town. Other events included taking 600 school children to a theme park and giving them gifts of clothes and ‘Relate’ bracelets. In another show of support to the people of South Africa, Gavin Tollman partnered with Stanley Tollman to bestow a donation of R 525,000 to the Groote Schuur Hospital. The money will be used for updating equipment and essential medical services for the hospital’s renal unit.
New Travel Services to Asia
With the upswing in Asian tourism,
Gavin Tollman is preparing guided vacations especially geared towards the Chinese population. China’s tourism market is one of the fastest growing areas of tourism in the world and through Trafalgar, Gavin Tollman promotes both inbound tourism to China as well as outbound to all destinations around the globe.
Innovative Travel and Tourism Packages
Gavin Tollman is making his mark in global tourism through his unique understanding of the industry and his deep concern for giving tourists what they are looking for when they travel. He is working ‘outside of the box’ in pioneering travel packages that allow for more flexibility and better suit the desires of the individual traveler. He created the ‘Be My Guest’ and ‘Hidden Treasures’ programs with these goals in mind. It is his goal that when a traveler completes a tour created by Trafalgar that they will have experienced an incredible journey.
Learn more on Gavin Tollman through the following sites:
Gavin Tollman - Travel Innovator
Gavin Tollman - Travel and Tourism Expert
The Story of Gavin Tollman
Located in Eldersburg, Maryland, Friendship School works with students attending grades one through eight who have language-based and other learning differences. For over a decade, Friendship School has provided comprehensive educations by fostering a creative and engaging learning environment that allows each student to discover and explore his or her unique talents and abilities. With a comprehensive curriculum that covers language, literacy, mathematics, social studies, science, art, drama, music, technology, and physical education, Friendship School focuses on daily one-on-one tutoring, small class instruction, and individualized treatment plans that address the distinctive learning styles of each student. To facilitate this process, Friendship School also incorporates several multi-sensory, linear, systematic, and cumulative educational models including the Orton-Gillingham methodology, the Saxon Math method, and guidelines set by the Maryland State Department of Education. Furthermore, Friendship School’s highly qualified and dedicated faculty hold a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and receive special training to help them identify and work with a variety of learning differences.
Today, Friendship School welcomes students seeking an innovative, challenging, well-rounded, and highly personalized education. In addition to students living in Eldersburg, Friendship School welcomes those in Carroll, Howard, Frederick, Anne Arundel, Prince George’s, Montgomery counties, and from across the greater Baltimore area. Parents interested in learning more about the teaching methods and curriculum of Friendship School can go to www.friendshipschool.org or call 410-552-6882. Information regarding admission guidelines, the parent/teacher organization, and a host of volunteer opportunities are also available online.
