Nigar Hale Vice President, Marketing and Membership, The Chamber of Southern Saratoga County If you know Nigar Hale at all, you know her name rhymes with ”cigar” and she is a die-hard Buffalo Bills fan. “Avid is too small of a word to describe how much I love the Bills,” exclaims the proud owner of…
Sunanda Manoharan CEO, Innovative BioSolutions LLC Be a good person. The simple yet profound mantra is one that Sunanda Manoharan adopted at a very young age. The same one the Emerging Market Consultant and her husband of 20 years, Mano Manoharan, now teach their children, 14-year old daughter Divya and 9-year-old son Rishi. Sunanda was…
Sharmaine Moseley Executive Director, Citizens’ Review Board on Police Practices – City of San Diego From growing up in the poverty-stricken Bronx to leading and empowering an independent citizens’ group in San Diego, Sharmaine Moseley has quite a story to share. The first in her family to pursue higher education, Sharmaine was part of the…
Scott Harrigan Executive Vice President, The Fort Miller Co., Inc. One of 13 children, Scott Harrigan grew up on a dairy farm in Ellenburg, northwest of Plattsburgh, New York. “I’m fourth from the bottom out of 10 boys and three girls,” he explains. “Growing up on a farm, every day of the year was a…
Saturnino Fernandez Purchasing and Industrial Development Engineer, SEPSA-ALBATROS North America When Saturnino Fernandez travels to the Spanish village of his 100-year- old grandmother this summer it will be the culmination of several months of celebration. Family and friends will travel to Tabuyo del Monte, where Satur’s mother and grandparents were born and raised. There, they…
Richard B. Chipman Certified Wildlife Biologist, Rabies Management Coordinator National Rabies Management Program USDA, APHIS, Wildlife Services How many wildlife biologists can claim they are named after a large rodent? Rich Chipman can. “My middle name is Beaver, which is my mom’s maiden name,” explains Rich. “So, I have always been very fond of Castor…
Rafael Alvarez Vice President, Technology & Business Delivery Services, IPLogic, Inc. Do you believe in love at first sight? You don’t have to. Technology executive (slash, “junkie”) Rafael, “Raf” Alvarez has enough certainty for the lot of us. “I did a lot of traveling so I didn’t have any time to find a wife,” he…
Michelle Dinsmore Vice President, Overit Media By nature, yin and yang are opposites. However, each relies on the other for balance and one cannot exist without the other. Meet Michelle and Dan Dinsmore. “She’s the yin to my yang,” remarks Dan, who readily admits the huge undertaking of relocating their multimedia company would never have…
Michele Sweeney Senior Vice President/Senior Technology Manager, Bank of America You would think that someone who has spent their entire career in banking would have a strong financial background, but that’s not necessarily the case, at least not for Bank of America’s Senior Vice President/Senior Technology Manager Michele Sweeney. “I’m a technology person.” Michele has…
Melanie Madden Director of Marketing and Publicity, JR Sports Enterprises One of the millions addicted to the wildly popular word building game, Words With Friends (WWF), Melanie Madden understands when someone posts their new WWF handle name on Facebook, they are easy prey. So when Washington Redskins linebacker Lorenzo Alexander posted he was new to…