Episode 17: Renee Flagler – Where The Girls Are
Renee Flagler is knee-deep in networking. As executive director of Girls Inc. of Long Island, her primary mission is to help the next generation of young professional women positively influence…
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Episode 16: Brian Fried – Invention Comprehension
Brian Fried is an inventor in the truest sense. More than just a home-based (and commercially successful) tinkerer with a garage full of exciting contraptions, he has a real dedication…
Episode 15: Susan Poser – Enter, The Lioness!
The Hofstra Pride has a new leader, and change is in the air. Hofstra University President Susan Poser, the first woman to fill the post, has completed her first 100…
Episode 14: David Hamilton – Most Energetic Innovator
David Hamilton is one of the hardest workers in all of Long Island innovation. As executive director of Stony Brook University’s Clean Energy Business Incubator Program and chief operating officer…
Episode 13: Michael Cardinuto – Ghost of a Chance
Michael Cardinuto knows what scares you. The co-founder of Long Island Paranormal Investigations – by day, a lead director at Westbury-based special-needs social-services agency Tiegerman Community Services – spends his…
Episode 12: Terri Alessi-Miceli – Industrial Strength
There are networking organizations, lobbying groups and tradeshows … and then there’s the HIA-LI. With its forward-looking committees, 1,300-plus member companies, trendsetting tradeshows and 11-square-mile industrial park – packed daily…
Episode 11: Christine Riordan – Adelphi’s Secret is Out
Adelphi University is pulling back the curtain. Deep in the Galactically Underrated File sits Adelphi, a 125-year-old private institution that’s routinely overlooked on an Island heavy with world-class universities and…
Episode 10: Matt Cohen – Energy, Expansion at the LIA
Same as the old boss? No – but Matt Cohen has been a part of the Long Island Association for a decade already, and the LIA has been part of…
Episode 9: Kenneth Bowes – Long Island is a Gale Force
Kenneth Bowes is no farmer – but he’s trying to grow Long Island’s all-time most-bountiful harvest. Exciting socioeconomic winds are blowing across the nation, and nowhere do those forward-looking gales…
Episode 8: Arthur Germain – Tell Us Another One
In a world where everything is different, this much is unchanged: Arthur Germain has some great stories to tell. The Angels had Charlie, that time-traveling dude in Quantum Leap had…
Episode 7: Mitch Pally – Something to Build On
Mitch Pally has been there and done that – and after decades of Long Island service, he’s still doing it. Celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2021, the Long Island Builders…
Episode 6: Ann-Marie Scheidt – A Developing Story
If Long Island technology commercialization has a name, it must be Ann-Marie Scheidt. A one-woman economic engine and one of the most vital cogs in Long Island’s entire socioeconomic apparatus,…
Episode 5: Debra Markowitz – Ready For Her Closeups
After directing Nassau County’s film-production destiny for decades, Debra Markowitz is literally taking the director’s chair. Debra Markowitz is a study in innovation – personally, technologically, even economically. As…
Episode 4: James Hayward – Innovation In His DNA
In auto thefts, supply chains and COVID, there is DNA – and there’s a good chance Jim Hayward’s Applied DNA Sciences created it. As COVID-19 circumnavigated the globe, scientists representing…
Episode 3: Adrienne Esposito – Considering Alternatives
Environmental remediation and new climate-friendly laws are easy, says Adrienne Esposito – try changing made-up minds. If you’ve ever seen a protest or press conference advocating for Long Island environmental…