The Bridgeport Regional Business Council Board of Directors is comprised of the region’s business leaders. The Board of Directors provides the strategic direction of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council (BRBC) and meets every other month starting in February.
Board members serve a three year term and are elected at the Annual Dinner.
BRBC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chair, Patrick F. McDonnell, UIL Holdings Corporation
Immediate Past Chair, Kate Hampford Donahue, Hampford Research Inc.
First Vice Chair, Lawrence J. Ganim, CExP, Ganim Financial
President and CEO, Dan Onofrio, BRBC
Secretary/Treasurer, Eric N. Hendlin, PKF O'Connor Davies
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Bob Abbate, Bob Abbate Marketing
Paul Antinozzi, Antinozzi Associates Architecture & Interior Design
Dianne J. Auger, St. Vincent’s Medical Center
James Benson, Merit Insurance
Frank Borres, American View Productions LLC
Paul Broadie, II, Housatonic Community College
Robert W. Christoph, Jr., Bridgeport Landing Development LLC
Tom Dillon, TBD Consulting
Charles V. Firlotte, C.V. Firlotte Associates
David M. Galla, People’s United Bank
Lorraine Gibbons, Cardinal Shehan Center/McGivney Center
Angela Pellegrino-Grant, Ex-Officio, LGB; Career Resources, Inc.
Andrew H. Harris, Bank of America
Mickey Herbert, Michael E. Herbert Consulting
Timothy Hodges, People’s United Bank
Christopher Hodgson, Berchem Moses P.C.
Michael Ivy, MD, Bridgeport Hospital
Jason B. Julian, Julian Enterprises
Jeffrey Klaus, Webster Bank
Philip Kuchma, Kuchma Corporation
Nancy Kuhn, Ex-Officio, TCC; Newtown Savings Bank
Michael LaBella, TD Bank
David Levine, Ex-Officio, BEDCO; Cohen and Wolf, P.C.
Zhan Li, Ph.D, Fairfield University
Joseph LoPresti, EBP Supply Solutions
Willie C. McBride, WC McBride Electrical Contractors, LLC
Matthew D. McSpedon, JP Morgan Chase Bank
Amanda Meeson, Ex-Officio, Women’s Leadership Network; Sterling House Community Center
Kelli Meyer, Ex-Officio, THRIVE; University of Bridgeport
Stephen Meyer, KeyBank N.A.
Mary Beth Nelsen, The Right Resource
Shelia Nevins, Ashcroft, Inc.
Christopher J. Pia, Pinnacle Strategies Inc.
Mike Powers, Ex-Officio, BCC; All American Waste LLC
Ed Rodriguez, Penmar Industries, Inc.
Thomas S. Santa, Santa Energy
Jorge Santiago, The Milford Bank
Margaret Sheahan, Mitchell & Sheahan PC
Valarie Shultz-Wilson, Urban League of Southern CT
Laura Skandera Trombley, University of Bridgeport
John F. Stafstrom, Jr., Pullman & Comley, LLC
John Temple Swing, The Barnum Museum
Samuel Tingley, M&T Bank
Christian C. Trefz, Trefz Corporation/McDonald’s/Trefz Properties
Douglas Wade, Wade’s Dairy, Inc.
Kelly Wade Bettuchi, AT&T
Kim Bianca Williams, Urban Synergy in Action
Karl Wintermeyer, PSEG Power Connecticut LLC
BRBC FINANCE COMMITTEE
Committee Chair, Eric Hendlin, Dworken, Hillman, LaMorte & Sterczala, P.C.
Vincenzo Fini, TCC Representative, Whittlesey & Hadley, P.C.
Patty Gallagher, SCC Representative, The Milford Bank
Lawrence Ganim, BCC Representative, Ganim Financial
Patrick McDonnell, UIL Holdings Corporation
Matthew McSpedon, JP Morgan Chase Bank
Dan Onofrio, Bridgeport Regional Business Council
Kim Rodney, Connecticut Community Bank
The Finance Committee of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council meets quarterly.
BRBC NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Committee Chair, Merle Berke-Schlessel, Chair, United Way of Coastal Fairfield County
Andrew Harris, Bank of America
Dan Onofrio, Bridgeport Regional Business Council
Margaret Sheahan, Mitchell & Sheehan PC
James Tomchik, Merit Insurance, Inc., Merit-PLC
The Nominating and Governance Committee of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council meets in September.
