ARE YOU JOB$MART
Networking 101 - How to Start and Sustain Your Contacts
Date: Apr.23, 2009
Time: 1-2pm
Room: VC 14-245
Speakers:
Bernie Siegel, PCC
Bernie began his career at KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting/consulting firms, where he spent six years observing and learning about what made small, fast growing businesses successful. He left KPMG for Wall Street and joined Discount Brokerage Corporation of America, the nation’s first discount broker, as controller. He quickly rose to the position of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. A native New Yorker, Bernie majored in accounting and economics at Queens College. He is a CPA and has the distinction of being one of less than a dozen CPAs in the United States who are also certified professional coaches.
In 1993, Larry Waterhouse, the founder of Waterhouse Securities (now TD Ameritrade) personally asked Bernie to join his firm’s management team and be his “Chief of Staff” and Chief Financial Officer, where he helped to oversee the growth and implementation of Waterhouse's successful internet strategy. With Larry Waterhouse as his mentor, Bernie had the privilege of seeing how a company could grow successfully by keeping to its core values, “treat everyone with dignity and respect” and “always do the right thing.
Linda R. Newman
Linda R. Newman is a third generation Property and Casualty Insurance Broker with the firm of Haskell Brokerage Corp Haskell is a medium sized insurance brokerage agency that has been in business for over thirty years. Ms. Newman is a general insurance broker specializing in commercial insurance. Her clients include small and medium sized companies in a wide variety of business categories. She is often in the position of business advisor to new businesses and works closely with the attorney and accountant to provide the best possible service to the insured.
Ms. Newman is and has been a Boy Scouts of America, Greater New York Councils, Development Department Volunteer since 1995. In this capacity, she has set up numerous Explorer Posts and introduced her clients and contacts to the fine work the Scouts are doing in New York City. She is also a member of the New York Society for Association Executives and Gotham City Networking, Inc. She is a volunteer for The Ronald McDonald House of New York, a non-profit that is a home away from home for children from all over the world with pediatric cancer.. She is known as “The Queen of Networking”.
Ms. Newman received her B. A. degree from Lehman College of the City of New York in 1972 and her M. S. from the same institution in 1976.
