Janine Sarna-Jones

Company: Organize Me Inc
Profession: Move Manager and Professional Organizer
Power Team: Residential Real Estate
Phone: 917-604-5042
Business Address: 300 W 145th St #4Q, New York, NY 10039
Email: janine@organizeme-inc.com
Website: https://organizeme-inc.com

Products and/or services offered:

Residential Move Management, Estate Clearance and Organizing

Ideal Referrals:

Real estate brokers, fiduciaries, T&E attorneys

Professional Bio:

Janine Sarna-Jones is an inaugural Certified Professional Organizer and Certified Move Manager. Organize Me was formed in 2000 and incorporated in 2010. Organize Me is a team based move management and professional organizing business. Janine and her team help people get ready to move, manage their move, unpack and organize. They also clear estates for families and executors and organize homes and offices.

Robert T. Weinberg

Company: DM Pros, Inc
Profession: Printing & Direct Mail Marketing
Power Team: Marketing
Phone: 646-872-3930
Business Address: 225 West 37th Street, 16th Floor
Email: RobertW@DMPros.net
Website: www.DMPros.net

Products and/or services offered:

Printing, Direct Mail (Commercial & Fundraising), Mailing Lists, Signage (Posters, Banners, Step & Repeat ...)

Ideal Referrals:

Marketing manager, nonprofit organizations, event producers

Professional Bio:

Specialist in printing, mailing, database management and fulfillment services for commercial and nonprofit organizations. My operations and marketing background will help you design a program to target your audience, get more attention, generate more leads, drive more traffic to your door or website, raise more funds for your organization and make your events more successful.

Keith Emmer

Company: Startegix
Profession: Public Relations
Power Team: Marketing
Phone: 212-920-9205
Email: keith@startegix.com

Keith is looking to meet:
Clients:
- HIGH-GROWTH BUSINESSES
CEOs, Start-Up Founders, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Marketing Directors, General Counsels
- LAW FIRMS
Partners and Chief Marketing Officers
- MARKETING / CREATIVE AGENCIES
Brand Consultants, Advertising Directors and Buyers, Digital Marketing Managers
- NON-PROFIT
Executive Directors, Board Members, Sponsorship Directors, Development Officers

 Industries:
- TECHNOLOGY
Startups, Software, Mobile Apps
- FINANCIAL SERVICES
Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Financial Planners, Accounting Firms - MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
Medical Devices, Pharmaceutical Companies, Inventors
- ENTERTAINMENT & SPORTS
Producers, Sports Management Agencies
- REAL ESTATE
Developers, Commercial Leasing Agencies

About Keith:
Keith Emmer creates and implements public relations, media and marketing communications strategies for a wide range of companies, with specialties in law, public affairs and new venture development.

Keith uses targeted communications to help his clients attain critical business outcomes such as investments, customer acquisition, and strategic partnerships. An entrepreneur himself, Keith was a founding team member of a leading niche social network featured in The New York Times, social media blog Mashable and Entrepreneur magazine.  

A licensed attorney, Keith frequently serves as a media liaison for other attorneys and their clients, and helps non-profit organizations and high-profile individuals successfully advocate for their causes. He regularly speaks to lawyers groups about engaging media in their matters.

His awards include “Outstanding Media Exposure: Business Development” from PR News (for work with a large law firm client); an American Bar Association “Award of Excellence” (for writing); and “Official Honoree” of the Webby Awards (for content creation on a website).  He has been quoted on venture development by media outlets such as Inc. magazine and Yahoo! Small Business, and was a speaker at Ideas City.

Keith holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and a B.A. in Psychology from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Randi L. Karmel

Company: Randi L. Karmel, PLLC
Profession: Matrimonial Attorney
Power Team: Legal
Phone: 212-755-0224
Business Address: 780 Third Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10017
Email: rkarmel@randikarmel.com
Website: www.RandiKarmel.com

Products and/or services offered:

Litigation, mediation and settlement of matrimonial and family law matters, including, but not limited to Divorce, Parenting Time,  Custody, Maintenance, Child Support, Equitable Distribution, Orders of Protection, Restraining Orders, Abuse and Neglect matters

Ideal Referrals:

Attorneys, therapists, owners of businesses

Professional Bio:

Matrimonial and Family Law Attorney from 1999-present.  Assistant District Attorney, District Attorney's Office, Kings County, litigated cases assigned to the Domestic Violence Bureau, Investigations Bureau, Felony Trial Bureau and Major Narcotics Investigations Bureau, 1991-1996. Examining Attorney, 1996, Special Counsel and Deputy Inspector General, City of New York Department of Investigation, 1996-1997. Private Practice defense litigation, 1997-1999. Law Offices of Randi L. Karmel, Esq. Matrimonial and Family Law litigation, 1999-2005. Partner, Karmel Miller, P.C., 2005 - 2006; Randi L. Karmel, PLLC, 2006-. Certified to represent children in the First and Second Judicial Departments. Certified to represent clients in Domestic Violence matters in the Integrated Domestic Violence Court.

Joshua J. Spiegel

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Company: Horzepa, Spiegel & Associates, PC
Profession: Business Law (Corporate, Employment, IP)
Power Team: Legal
Phone: 212-710-9510 
Email: Jspiegel@horzepalaw.com
Business Address: 30 Wall Street 8th Floor, New York, New York 10005
Website: www.horzepalaw.com/index.php

About Joshua J. Spiegel:
Mr. Spiegel is a co-founder of the firm and serves as counsel to a diverse corporate and private clientele on matters related to general corporate, commercial business, employment and real estate law, including the structuring, negotiation, and execution of deals, and the drafting of agreements. Mr. Spiegel has extensive transactional experience in the areas of entity formation and governance, shareholder rights, employment matters, technology and content licensing, business development, partnerships and joint ventures, resolving business disputes, and commercial and residential real estate transactions. Mr. Spiegel represents businesses in industries including media (television, film, music, and publishing), technology and software, real estate development and investment, construction, retail/e-commerce, fashion/textile and business consulting.

Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Spiegel held director-level positions at The Princeton Review, Inc., a leading international education publishing company, and Cybersettle, Inc., a premier online dispute resolution company, where he focused primarily on complex business transactions, government contracting, and operational initiatives. Additionally, Mr. Spiegel engaged in the practice of law as both a sole practitioner and an associate of The Law Offices of Fredrick Harrison Kaplan, LLP. Mr. Spiegel received his JD from Brooklyn Law School and his B.S. degree (magna cum laude) from New York University where he graduated as a Founders Day Scholar. Mr. Spiegel is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.

In addition to practicing law, Mr. Spiegel is involved in the New York City music scene. Mr. Spiegel serves as a mentor to emerging artists and writers in addition to being a published songwriter.

Melissa Rapoport


Company: Melissa Rapoport Health Counseling
Profession: Holistic Health Coach
Power Team: Health & Wellness
Phone: 718-496-6623
Email: melissa@melissarapoport.com

Melissa is looking to meet: 
DOCTORS: 
Internists, Cardiologists, Endocrinologists, Plastic Surgeons, Psychiatrists
SMALL-TO-MID COMPANIES:
CEOs, Principals, Founders, Partners, Human Resource Directors

About Melissa: 
Melissa Rapoport is a Health Counselor and Food Relationship Expert. She works with people around the world who want to fit into their jeans, break the chains of emotional eating, say “No” to yo-yo dieting, and say “Yes” to food freedom, more energy, and increased happiness. She is an international bestselling author of Cultivating Joy and Wisdom of MidLife Women. What makes Melissa different? She combines her graduate work in Developmental Psychology with her education in health and coaching to create programs the result in lifetime change.

Melissa creates tailored Corporate Wellness programs and conducts Workshops across the United States. Her signature talk “The Seven Pillars To Optimizing Your Health When You’re Working Full Throttle” has been presented at financial firms, law firms and advertising agencies.

Melissa is also the international bestselling co-author of Cultivating Joy and Wisdom of Midlife Women. Her third title will be released in August 2016. See her work here: Author Page

To find out more about Melissa and to take the quiz, Are You Sabotaging Your Health, go to www.melissarapoport.com

Danielle Diaz

Company: Update Legal
Profession: Legal Staffing, Placement & Recruiter
Power Team: Legal
Phone: 212-993-2225
Email: ddiaz@updatelegal.com
Website: updatelegal.com

Products and/or services offered:

Legal staffing- attorneys and paralegals.  Contract assignments, temp to perm and permanent placements. We specialize in eDiscovery- providing the attorneys, the space, the technology and Project Managers if needed.  We provide legal staffing of foreign language attorneys as well.

Ideal Referrals:

Decision makers at law firms ( any size ), litigation attorneys especially, but any practice area, whether it's litigation or corporate, is a great referral.  Also, General Counsel and in house counsel within companies of all sizes.

Professional Bio:

For over 20 years, law firms and corporate legal departments have depended on Update Legal to provide them with superior candidates for temporary and permanent assignments. Update Legal is your contact for attorneys, paralegals and litigation support staff. And if you are a legal professional, we're your contact for new opportunities. 

With offices in ten locations across the US, Update Legal is one of the preeminent legal recruiting and placement firms in the country. But we never forget what made us that way. 

At Update Legal, we pride ourselves on responsiveness. Our clients have ever-changing staffing needs, so we're available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We provide clients with temporary, temporary-to-permanent and permanent placements as their needs dictate. And we've established long-term relationships that, in some cases, have existed as long as we've been in business. Specialties: Contract attorney and paralegal placement, Discovery Management, Legal placement.

Jacqueline Frank

Company: Guaranteed Rate
Profession: Residential Mortgage Lender
Power Team: Residential Realestate
Phone: 917-405-6661
Email: Jacqueline.frank@guaranteedrate.com
Website: people.rate.com/jacqueline-frank-45864

Products and/or services offered:

Financing for High Net worth Individuals

Ideal Referrals:

Realtors, Financial Advisors, Attorneys

Professional Bio:

VP of Mortgage Lending at GUARANTEED RATE

National Mortgage Lender

Licensed in 50 States

Deborah Blumenfield

Company: Graubard & Blumenfield, P.C.
Profession: Attorney
Power Team: Residential Real Estate
Phone: 212-447-0500
Business Address: 370 Lexington Avenue, 27th Floor, New York, NY 10017
Email: deborah@graubard-law.com
Website: www.graubard-law.com

Ideal Referrals:

real estate brokers, mortgage brokers and other attorneys that do not practice real estate law

Deborah Donenfeld

Name: Deborah Donenfeld
Company: Photosynthesis Coaching
Profession: Life Coach
Power Team: Health & Wellness
Phone: 917-848-4081 
Email: ddphotosynthesis@gmail.com
Website: www.photosynthesiscoaching.com

Ideal Referrals:

People going through difficult life transitions including divorce or breakup, loss of a spouse, retirement, empty nest, getting back into the workforce after a pause, etc.

Professional Bio: 

I have been working as a coach since 2011, helping people through challenging life changes and around communication issues. I help them to navigate life when it feels like the rug has been pulled out from under them, and to learn how to choose trust over fear. And I work with professionals who want to communicate more authentically and effectively with clients, co-workers, bosses and those they manage.

Melanie Fox

Company: Speech Fox
Profession: Presentation Training & Accent Reduction
Power Team: Business Services
Phone: 631-220-4478
Business Address: 135 Madison Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10016
Email: melanie@speechfox.com
Website: www.speechfox.com

Products and/or services offered:

Accent Reduction, Dialect Coaching, Presentation/Communication Skills Coaching, Spanish Pronunciation, World Language Learning

Ideal Referrals:

Global HR Leaders (CHRO), Director of Talent Development, Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leader

Professional Bio:

Melanie Fox is an acclaimed dialect coach and accent reduction specialist who helps non-native English speakers articulate clear business English and empowers performers to master dialects from around the world.

Through her brand, Speech Fox LLC, Melanie offers custom-tailored language lessons for English language learning. She customizes her classes to fit the unique needs of each client, based on his/her native language, English proficiency, personal goals, and business objectives. She designs her classes based on applications of principles in phonetics and phonology in a way that is accessible, practical, and enjoyable for clients. Melanie's expertise includes media interviews, business presentation skills, public speaking, and white-glove customer service for elite clientele. She focuses on pronunciation but can also incorporate grammar, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, TOEIC/TOEFL preparation, business writing, speech writing, sales pitches, customer service scripts, and other presentation skills upon request. She also coaches Spanish pronunciation for non-native speakers. Speech Fox lessons are available face-to-face in her Midtown Manhattan office or via live, recordable video-based web conference.