Events
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Paul Victor, President NY & Atlantic RR
Members and Friends This morning our guest speaker was Paul Victor, president of NY & Atlantic Rail road. NY&A is the freight rail company that serves Long Island. Paul is a real railroad man having worked in various capacities in railroads across the country, as well as South America and Africa Long Island is the…
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Dr. Matthew C. Cordaro, Dean, Townsend Bus. Dowling College
Matt Cordaro has been known to the audience at LIMBA for as long anybody who attends can remember. Dr. Cordaro has assumed many roles in his life, and as the case with many talented and well educated people he keeps getting asked to do more. After many years as a high level power utility executive…
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Hon. Judge Salvatore Alamia-Topic- Restorative Justice
Members and Friends We certainly took a departure from our usual programming this morning. Our speaker was district court judge Hon. Salvatore Alamia. Judge Alamia is engaged in the area of "restorative justice". He emphasized the crimes arising from drug use and crimes related to drugs. Bringing these people back into society is sometimes considered…
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Hon. Jon Cooper, Suffolk County Legislator
Members and Friends Suffolk County legislator and Majority Leader Jon Cooper was our speaker at LIMBA this morning. In Jon's introduction of himself he stressed that he was a small business owner and had the sensibilities of a person who understood business. He also has been motivated to serve in public office. It is a…
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Peter Maniscalco-Should LIPA buy Nat Grid generating assets?
Members and Friends Our speaker this morning was Peter Maniscalco. Peter has been an energy policy analyst for more than 30 years. This and his experience as a professor of environmental ethics has honed his sense of what can happen if the right questions are not asked. The topic was; What questions should be asked…
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Ken Morelly, Pres LIFT
This morning our speaker at LIMBA was Ken Morelly, President of Long Island Forum for Technology (LIFT). LIFT has been the agency on Long Island that has helped the small, and not so small technology companies in their pursuit of bringing their products and services to market. The services provided has has a remarkable record…
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Bruce Germano, LIPA- Smart Grid Initiatives
Our speaker this morning was LIPA VP, Bruce Germano. Bruce opened his talk this morning by recounting his experiences with Smart Grid technology dating back to 2002. Back then, we were thinking Smart Grids, but there wasn’t a name for them. With time, new definitions emerged, of a power network that has intelligence built into…
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Carol Ash, NY State Parks Comissioner
We had the pleasure of hearing from the NYS Commissioner of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, Carol Ash. Pro Image Studios recorded the video of her talk and the Q&A, which can be found here: Ms. Ash is a long time champion of downstate parks and the environment. Her most recent past position was Executive…