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Alan Siege, CEO/Owner of Small Business Management Consulting, which focuses on small firms. SBMC helps companies increase profits by improving the way they tell their business story. He has been featured in NY Newsday, CrainsNewYork, American Express OPEN, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, and Good Housekeeping. He is an instructor for the NYC Department of Small Business Services Entrepreneur Boot Camp, a Kaufman Foundation Certified Facilitator for its FastTrac programs offered by NYC, as well as an adjunct Professor at the Center for Continuing Education and Workforce Development at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at New York University.

Reggie Brady, founder of Reggie Brady Marketing Solutions, is an expert email marketing consultant who focuses on helping clients improve their email marketing strategies and quantify their Return on Investment. She is a leading authority on internet direct marketing and brings extensive experience to her practice. During her career, she has helped hundreds of top companies across the country succeed with online marketing.

Amy Eisenstein, MPA, CFRE is principal and owner of Tri Point Fundraising, a full-service consulting firm for nonprofit organizations and foundations. For more than 10 years, Amy worked in the nonprofit sector as director of development in large and small nonprofit organizations, where she raised millions of dollars through event planning, grant writing, capital and annual campaigns, direct mail, and major and planned gift solicitations.

Amy’s new book, 50 Asks in 50 Weeks: A Guide to Better Fundraising for Your Small Development Shop, published by Charity Channel Press, will help you identify new prospects for your organization and systematize your asking, so that you raise more money this year. Amy is a frequent speaker at conferences and retreats for staff and boards on a variety of topics.

She is currently VP of Development on the board of the Association of Fundraising Professionals – New Jersey Chapter, and served as chair of the 2010 AFP-NJ Conference on Philanthropy. She received her Master’s Degree in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management from the Wagner Graduate School at NYU and her Bachelor’s Degree from Douglass College at Rutgers University. Amy has been a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) since 2004.

Bryan has helped organizations in the nonprofit and commercial sectors use technology to exceed their goals for more than 14 years. He currently helps nonprofits fulfill their missions by using LinkedIn to connect with future staff members, donors, board members, clients, partners, and with one another. Bryan has vast expertise in coaching and energizing people; selling to and supporting nonprofit and commercial sector customers; and designing and delivering sales training.

Marc W. Halpert  is Managing Partner, Your Best Interest LLC and its divisions: e-giving and connect2collaborate.
Since leaving the corporate world  in 2001, Halpert has started two companies offering  paperless electronic payment services to optimize the cash flow of and speed collections to: 

• retailers, particularly small- and mid-sized businesses (Your Best Interest LLC)
• professional and membership groups, and not-for-profit organizations (e-giving).

In his latest business, Connect2Collaborate, Halpert uses his skills in networking and his LinkedIn evangelism to train and coach others. Connect2Collaborate gives business people with whom he connects the opportunity to become clients of his customized cash flow and payment services. Everyone benefits simultaneously: improved business cash flow and new business collaboration.

He has been recognized for client service and is a frequent speaker at national, regional, and local conferences for small businesses and nonprofits. He has also authored articles on innovations in cash flow technologies, and on LinkedIn as a powerful branding power.

He serves as an instructor at the University of Phoenix’s Fairfield County on-ground campus, where he teaches finance, management, and business ethics.

He volunteers as a counselor at the award-winning Norwalk, CT chapter of SCORE where he provides expertise in e-commerce, nonprofits, and social media. He also teaches LinkedIn to job-seekers at Connect to Care at Westchester Jewish Community Services in Westchester County, NY.

Halpert holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Virginia and his MBA in International Business from George Washington University.
 

David Rudofsky is a business consultant who advises clients on how to optimize their business' profitability through cost management, financial and strategic planning, and competitive analysis. A graduate of Wharton School of Business, Rudofsky uses creativity, strategic thinking, and analysis to find fresh solutions to his clients' business problems.

Laura Jacob is the President of Pro Way Development based in Stamford, CT. Pro Way helps businesses develop human resource strategies, a plan to hire, manage, and motivate employees. Organizations can maximize their human capital by establishing sound human resource practices that include recruiting, on-boarding, employee relations and retention, and employee development.

Laura has worked in the U.S. and Canada as well as virtually across the globe. She serves as adjunct faculty at local colleges and teaches communication and management skills courses at the American Management Association.

In May 2009 she was named as one of Fairfield County's Top 40 executives under 40 for her work as the President of Pro Way Development.

Jason founded Nonprofit Solutions Network in 1998 to help nonprofits boost productivity, lower costs, and improve their overall operation through the use of technology. Other IT firms that provide affordable services do this by providing a “one size fits all” approach. Nonprofit Solutions and its sister company that serves small businesses provide technology solutions customized to meet the unique needs and financials challenges of nonprofits and small business.