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Gregory Galdi
Founder & President
Custom Computer Specialists
Gregory Galdi is an accomplished entrepreneur,
philanthropist, and information
technology visionary. As founder and President
of Hauppauge-headquartered Custom
Computer Specialists, Galdi has helped
transform the adoption of outsourced
technology services within healthcare,
education, commercial and non-profit
business, and local government.
Galdi was first introduced to technology
when he began his career as a chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Shortly after, in 1979, he founded Custom Computer Specialists with a small
storefront located in Riverhead. Four decades later, his technology solutions
firm has grown to over 400 full-time employees with locations in New York,
New Jersey, and Rhode Island—including a 100,000-sq.-ft facility on Long Island.
With his visionary perspective, Galdi has earned the Long Island University
Southampton College’s Distinguished Alumnus Award, is a three-time Entrepreneur
of the Year finalist, and honored member of the Young Presidents’
Organization. He is a board member of the International Motor Racing
Research Center, HIA-LI, and the Long Island University Board of Trustees
Impassioned with giving back to the communities he serves, Galdi has
been frequently recognized for his philanthropic efforts, supporting Long
Island’s associations, hospitals, schools, and museums. He was also recognized
at Parker Jewish Institute’s annual gala for his many accomplishments.
Galdi is an avid auto racing enthusiast and resides on Long Island with
his wife Linda.
Louis C. Grassi
Chief Executive Officer,
Managing Partner
Grassi CPAs
Louis C. Grassi is the Chief Executive Officer,
Managing Partner of Grassi CPA’s. He
began his career in 1977 and has extensive
experience in tax, accounting and consulting.
Grassi takes a proactive role with clients, performing
such value-added services as profit-enhancement
studies, operational reviews, performance
benchmarking, forensic accounting,
incentive compensation programs, estate and succession planning, corporate restructuring,
and corporate/family retreat facilitation. Grassi’s counsel has proven
instrumental to the success of many companies and high net worth families.
Grassi’s leadership, drive for success, and dedication to providing clients with
high quality services has grown Grassi from a zero-base firm to being ranked
the 66th largest firm in the country, and the top 17th largest firm in the New York
area by Crain’s New York Business. IPA has also recognized Grassi as a “Best of
the Best Firms” for 10 consecutive years. The firm was also recognized by Crain’s
New York Business as one of the 50 Fastest Growing Businesses in New York City,
and was ranked as the Best Place to Work by several publications.
Grassi was the former Chair of Moore North America, part of an international
association of more than 300 independent accounting and consulting
firms. As a nationally-recognized expert, Grassi is also frequently called upon
as a lecturer and business advisor for companies and industry trade organizations.
He has authored numerous local and national articles, also serving
as a contributing editor to the Corporate Controller’s Manual. Grassi was an
adjunct professor at Columbia University teaching a graduate level course in
finance and accounting. Evan H. Krinick
Partner
Rivkin Radler LLP
Evan H. Krinick, a partner with Rivkin
Radler’s Appeals, Commercial Litigation
and Insurance Coverage practice groups,
has been the firm’s managing partner for
eight years. During that time, he oversaw
the growth of the firm from three offices
and 140 attorneys to five offices and 200
attorneys. He founded the firm’s insurance
fraud practice, which now includes more
than 30 attorneys representing numerous
carriers in multiple states.
Krinickwas the youngest person elected to the partnership of Rivkin Radler
and the youngest elected to its management committee. He has argued close
to 20 cases in the New York Court of Appeals on a variety of civil matters, and
two criminal cases assigned by the Court. He has authored numerous amicus
curiae briefs accepted by the NY Court of Appeal on issues of importance.
He is the lead counsel for Bethpage Federal Credit Union, and since 1993,
he has served as outside counsel to LIPA.
Early in his career, Krinick represented the Town of Hempstead and Nassau
County in landmark voting rights cases.
He is a member of the Long Island Association’s Board of Directors and the
Touro Law School Board of Governors, and he is the former Chairman of the
NY Mentoring Partnership’s Leadership Council.
A prolific writer, he writes a regular column on insurance fraud for the
New York Law Journal. He lectures frequently to the New York State Bar Association
and in other venues on appellate practice, civil procedure, expert
witnesses, insurance bad faith and insurance coverage.
Dr. James Lentini
President
Molloy College
James Lentini, D.M.A., began his appointment
as Molloy College’s seventh president in June 2020.
Dr. Lentini’s strategic vision at Molloy includes
expanding the institution’s considerable impact
in metropolitan New York in health professions,
business, and education, rooted in a liberal arts
core with strengths in the arts and sciences.
Prior to his appointment at Molloy, Dr.
Lentini served as Senior Vice President for
Academic Affairs and Provost at Oakland University
(Rochester, Michigan) from 2013-2020. As the university’s chief academic
officer, he oversaw enrollment management and student success initiatives
leading to record highs for enrollment, student retention, and graduation rates.
For his accomplishments at Oakland University, Dr. Lentini was awarded the
first-ever Presidential Medal of Excellence for exceptional leadership.
In addition to his administrative accomplishments, Dr. Lentini’s is an internationally
recognized composer. He has received the Andrés Segovia International
Composition Prize, the McHugh Composition Prize, a grant from “Meet the Composer,”
a Hanson Institute grant, and multiple awards from the American Society
of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). Gramophone Magazine wrote
that James Lentini is an “American classical music success story,” while calling his
composition Scenes from Sedona “…perhaps the best piece for viola and cello since
Beethoven’s ‘Eyeglasses’ Duet.” Reviewer Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune
named Dr. Lentini’s recording of large ensemble works entitled “Through Time
and Place” one of the Best Classical Recordings of the Year for 2020.
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