The following is a list of New York District Export Council Members.
Officers
Chairman - Joseph E. Schoonmaker, Risk Protection
International
Vice Chairman - Barney Lehrer, FITA Online
Vice Chairman - Thomas J. Valentine, MAINFREIGHT, Inc.
Executive Secretary - Carmela Mammas, New York USEAC
Chair Emeritus - Spencer Ross, National Institute for World
Trade
Members
Amy A. Allen, The Westchester Association, Incorporated
Angela Cervera, Ro-An Industries Corporation
Thomas A. Cook, American River International
Janet Driscoll, World Trade Centers Association
Charles Dugan, TD Bank
Cynthia Duncan Holton, U.S. Council for International
Business
Helene Herman, Lee Spring
Maykool Lopez, Procomer
Terrence F. Martell, Weissman Center for International
Business/Baruch College/CUNY
Myles M. Matthews, GTCC-Global Trade and Technology Center
Kristin McDonough, The New York Public Library/Science, Industry
& Business Library
Philip Opher, Opher Econx
Nancy C. Ploeger, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce
Andrea M. Ratay, HSBC Bank USA
Fred Sampliner, S.S. Sampliner & Co. Inc.
Isaac M. Savitt, Gate Group USA, Inc.
Robert Seely, Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman &
Klestadt, LLP
Donna Sharp, Sharp Global Partners, Ltd.
Manohar L. Sood, Citibank NAElaine Stone, Fashion Institute of
Technology/SUNY
Luis Alberto Viada, The McGraw-Hill Companies
Aaron Weiss, Galley Dreyer & Berkey, LLP
Peter J. Zantal, Port Commerce Department, Port Authority of New
York & New Jersey
Associate Members
Ruth Morrison, Brooklyn International Trade Development Center, Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York
Ex-Officio Members
Sam Natapoff, State of New York and Empire State Development
Group
Toni Corsini, Small Business Administration
Thomas Cummings, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Committees
Communications - Isaac Savitt, Chair
Counseling - Joe Schoonmaker, Chair
Education - Terrence Martell, Chair
Legislation - Donna Sharp, Chair
Trade Policy - Spencer Ross, Chair
Program - Thomas Cook, Chair
World Trade Week – Nancy Ploeger