32 LONGISLANDPRESS.COM • MARCH 2019
Doon Gibbs, Director, Brookhaven
National Laboratory
Peter Goldsmith, Chairman, ListNet
THE POLICY SHAPERS:
Long Island’s political leaders and
elected officials
NASSAU LEADERS
Laura Curran, Nassau County
Executive
Richard Nicolello, Presiding Officer,
Nassau County Legislature
Kevan Abrahams, Nassau County
Legislature’s Democratic Minority
Leader
Jay Jacobs, New York State Democratic
Committee Chairman
Joseph Cairo, Chairman, Nassau
County Republican Committee
SUFFOLK LEADERS
Steve Bellone, Suffolk County
Executive
DuWayne Gregory, Presiding Officer,
Suffolk County Legislature
Thomas Cilmi, Minority Leader, Suffolk
County Legislature’s Republican
Caucus
Richard Schaeffer, Suffolk County
Democratic Committee Chairman,
Babylon Town Supervisor
John Jay LaValle, Suffolk County
Republican Committee Chairman
ALBANY POWER PLAYERS
Thomas DiNapoli, New York State
Comptroller
John Flanagan, New York State Senate
Republican Minority Leader
Patrick Foye, President, Metropolitan
Transportation Authority
Howard Zemsky, President and CEO,
New York State Urban Development
Corporation
THE LI 6
The leaders of the Island’s new Democratic
majority state Senate caucus
Todd Kaminsky, New York State
Senator
John Brooks, New York State Senator
THE FRESHMEN
These four Democratic state senators
were instrumental in flipping the
chamber from Republican control
James F. Gaughran, New York State
Senator
Anna Kaplan, New York State
Senator
Monica Martinez, New York State
Senator
Kevin Thomas, New York State
Senator
DRAGON SLAYER
Unseated the third most powerful
state Assemblywoman in November
Taylor Raynor, New York State
Assemblywoman
D.C. BIGWIGS
Peter King, U.S. Congressman
LI’s most tenured U.S. Representative
Thomas Suozzi, U.S. Congressman
Sits on powerful Ways & Means
Committee
TOP COPS
Patrick Ryder, Nassau County Police
Commissioner
Geraldine Hart, Suffolk County Police
Commissioner
Madeline Singas, Nassau County
District Attorney
Timothy Sini, Suffolk County District
Attorney
IN MEMORIAM:
Long Island Press Power List Hall of
Famer Charles Wang, the Computer
Associates cofounder and former
CEO, former New York Islanders
owner who passed away last fall.
The expanded list of the 70 changemakers,
policy shapers, deal makers,
mind shapers, and rainmakers on
this year’s Power List can be found
here: https://www.schnepscommunicationsevents.
com/events/
powerlist2019/
Honoree Todd Shapiro with Victoria Schneps-Yunis, President, Schneps Media
PowerListers Theresa Regnante and
Taylor Raynor with guest
Joh Victoria Schneps-Yunis with John
Cameron, Founder and Managing
Partner, Cameron Engineering, and
Juju Chang n Cameron, Founder and
Managing Partner, Cameron Engineering
Madeline Singas, Nassau DA, and Dr. Jeffrey
Reynolds
Paul Trapani with PowerListers Peter
Goldsmith and James C. Metzger
Honoree Dr. Isma Chaudhry (center)
with guests
Deirdre O'Connell with EMCEE, ABC's
Juju Chang
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