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Robert has been a life-long Bergen County resident and been in the Real Estate industry since 1983. His experience includes developments, investments and both residential and commercial transactions. Robert is the Broker/Owner of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Abbott Realtors, which is celebrating 30 years of being open in New Jersey.

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. Kimone studied with Penn Foster and Passaic County Community College.

Pat Saporito is a SCORE mentor and chair of the outreach committee for the Northeast Chapter of SCORE, which services Bergen & 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. 

Waikiki has 25 years of experience as a Senior Level Leader in commercial real estate construction and development management. Waikiki has provided project underwriting support information prior to asset acquisitions; provided lender financing support information; interfaced with community and zoning boards; coordinated inspections and approvals with building department officials to secure timely certificates of occupancy; assisted with joint developer agreement negotiations; provided full scale project budgets; bid, negotiated and awarded all project vendor contracts; established and managed construction and development cost and schedule controls on both the Owner and Contractor’s side of the project.

John has spent over 35 years compounding customized medication for patients. His peers across the country and the physicians he works with consider him a top expert in the compounding industry.

Winston M. Meikle, MSN MBA HCA CCRN-CSC/CMC is an accomplished healthcare executive with a wealth of experience in critical care nursing, administration, and education. His professional aspirations are to achieve the highest levels of practice in professional nursing, continued education to complete a Doctor of Nursing Practice, and use this to help worthy organizations achieve their goals.

Gada Elkenani has more than 30 years of experience in commercial banking for middle market and institutional clients. Ms. Elkenani was most recently served in executives’ roles for a few very reputable institutions as Senior Managing Director/Team Leader of the Middle Market Group with a focus on growing commercial & industrial portfolio. She has been successful in creating new vertical areas of opportunity for the lenders for whom she has worked including the creation of a specialty commercial lending portfolio of over $1.0 billion in assets for Commerce Bank (now TD Bank).

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.

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. Kimone studied with Penn Foster and Passaic County Community College.