Member Monday

There are two basic realities regarding the world economy we are now dealing with.  First, the economic world will never return to the specific norms of the “pre-pandemic” universe.   Second, managing as though we will ultimately return to a status closely resembling the way our society worked before is both short-sighted and misguided.

Russ Zukowski owns and operates ATR Cleanouts. ATR Cleanouts caters to all residential and commercial jobs from the smallest to the largest job, ATR CLEANOUT & DISPOSAL, LLC will take it on! We are NJDEP Certified, A-901 License, and fully insured!

Kimone James is the Founder and CEO of The Amazing Help, a non-profit organization, and serves as its Board of Directors. She is also the CEO of Biz Start Up LLC that provides small business/non-profit formation, document preparations, career coaching, and notarization to Title and Mortgage companies. Before starting The Amazing Help and Biz Start-Up, she remotely operated a child care and preschool center in her home country Jamaica as the Founder and Executive Director, she also served on its board of directors and was responsible for the bookkeeping and human resource.

Mr. Coldon has more than 20 years of experience in the environmental consulting industry. His knowledge of fuel related Underground Storage tanks is extensive. He was one of the founders of Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. and is a Registered Environmental Assessor (REA) in the state of California. His company Tank One Environmental has extensive experience in Tank Removals, Site Remediation, including but not limited to sub-surface testing, tank integrity testing, soil, gas, and groundwater assessments in the context of Real Estate transactions, as well as under the supervision of state and federal regulators.

Scott Scarpelli leverages more than two decades of experience in the mortgage industry to excel at finding the best products for each client. A graduate of Montclair State College, he has held positions at GMAC Mortgage, Chase, and Republic Bank prior to joining Symmetry as Area Manager.

Pat Saporito is a SCORE mentor and chair of the outreach committee for the Northeast Chapter of SCORE, which services Berge & Passaic counties. She works with business and community partners including chambers of commerce, libraries and economic development organizations helping small businesses start up or grow their businesses. 

Mary K. Blanusa leads the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation (NNJCF) as Executive Director and brings with her extensive experience in organizational management, collective impact, strategic planning, and program development & implementation in philanthropy and nonprofit fields. NNJCF, based in Hackensack, is a non-profit organization working to improve local communities through philanthropy and programs in arts, environment, education, civic engagement, and public health.

Caryn Starr-Gates is a professional copywriter working in advertising, marketing and public relations. She writes for all media—print, broadcast, and digital—for a broad range of clients across many industries, for consumer and B2B accounts.

Kurt Steinbruch has been working in the digital marketing space for 11+ years. Kurt is president of ISN Websites a full service website design and digital marketing firm. He is also co-founder of NJ Networking Events and a Bergen County Chamber of Commerce board member. Kurt specializes in the development & implementation of creative digital marketing strategies that are designed to optimize ad spend while reaching his client's target audience.