Our Advisory Board

Laurence Tarica is President and Chief Operating Office of Jimlar Corporation, the oldest continuously operating footwear company in America. Founded by Victor and Madeline Tarica in 1956, their sons, Jim (Chairman) and Larry have led the organization for 38 years. Ownership of Jimlar is privately held, two thirds by the family and the balance by an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Jimlar owns the Frye Boot Company, R.J. Colt and Mountrek, and is the footwear licensee of Coach and Calvin Klein. Jimlar’s worldwide staff of 800 is located in 8 countries and headquartered in Great Neck, NY. Jimlar was selected as the footwear industry’s Company of the Year in 1993 and as Brand of the Year for Frye in 2004 and Excellence in Design for Coach in 2005. Larry serves on the boards of A.L.S, The Hebrew Union College, the American Jewish Committee and J. D’Addario and Company. Larry is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, 1971.

Jonathan Ewert

Jonathan Ewert is President and Chief Executive Officer of Codero, a Kansas City based Internet Hosting Infrastructure company. A proven technology executive with global expertise in Internet advertising networks, social networking, e-commerce, and professional services, Mr. Ewert is regarded as an authentic and passionate leader with a strong client focus and is a speaker at industry conferences such as Search Engine Strategies and LocalSocial.

Prior to Codero, Mr. Ewert served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for LookSmart (NASDAQ: LOOK), a leading search advertising network and management company, where he led the turnaround of the media business. From 2003 – 2006, Mr. Ewert served as Chief Executive Officer of ePALS until selling the company. Prior to ePALS, Mr. Ewert served as VP Business Development to restart eCommerce Solutions, and as VP of Marketing and Corporate Communications for Modem Media, where he led the preparation and positioning of the company for Modem’s successful initial public offering. Previously, Mr. Ewert served in a variety of management roles at Infoseek Corp. until the sale of the company to Disney.

Mr. Ewert currently serves on the Boards of Advantage Business Media and Aplus Holdings, and is a past Board member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau. He currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Wowd, Inc. and Cancer101, a non-profit that provides tools and resources to the newly diagnosed. Mr. Ewert also serves on the Steering Committee of Project Inkwell, an organization that has built K-12 education technology standards. He earned his B.A. in Political Science in 1986 from the College of the Holy Cross.

James Orsini is Executive Vice President and Director of Finance and Operations for Saatchi & Saatchi in New York. Mr. Orsini works closely with the CEO to provide strategic and day-to-day direction of all financial and operational functions. Ideas company Saatchi & Saatchi New York is the largest agency in the 153 office Saatchi & Saatchi global network, part of the Publicis Groupe, the world’s fourth largest communications group. The agency has over forty #1 brands in it’s client portfolio. Prior to joining Saatchi, Mr. Orsini was Chief Operating Officer of Interbrand, North America, the world’s leading brand consultancy. Mr. Orsini has held prior jobs at KPMG Peat Marwick and Goldman Sachs & Company. Mr. Orsini graduated Magna Cum Laude from Seton Hall University with a BS in Business Administration. He is a licensed NY State Certified Public Accountant and a Board Member of Renovation House of NJ/NY, residential substance abuse rehabilitation programs, as well as President Elect to the Alumni Board of Seton Hall University.

Kelly Bloss is a Senior Consultant with Stuart Levine & Associates with over 20 years of experience in telecommunications, technology and financial services. She is Lead Director for WVT Communications, a NASDAQ traded firm, where she chairs the Governance and Nominating Committee and serves on the Budget Committee, Audit Committee, Strategic Options Committee and recently chaired the board’s selection of its new CEO. As Vice President at Verizon, Bell Atlantic and NYNEX, Kelly led the history-making start-up of Long Distance business for the first post-divestiture Regional Bell Operating Company into New York. She led the past merger integration of the NYNEX and Bell Atlantic Long Distance businesses and the subsequent post merger integration of Bell Atlantic and GTE (Verizon). Kelly received both the NYNEX Chairman’s Award and the New England Telephone Quality Award. She received a Masters of Science degree in Telecommunications and Computing Management from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn in 1990 and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Union College.

Stuart R. Levine is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Stuart Levine & Associates LLC. He is author of the Wall Street Journal Business Best Seller, The Six Fundamentals of Success: The Rules for Getting It Right for Yourself and Your Organization (Doubleday, 2004), Cut to the Chase: and 99 Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift of Time (Doubleday, 2007) and co-author of Simon & Schuster’s international bestseller, The Leader in You, published in 22 languages with over 1 million copies sold. He served as the first non-family CEO of Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc. operating in 72 countries worldwide, and was awarded the 1995 Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the category of Leadership by Ernst & Young and Inc. Magazine for turning the company around.

He serves on the board of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (BR), Chairman of Governance and Nominating Committee and Lead Director for J. D’Addario & Company, Inc. and is former Lead Director for Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (GTIV). Additionally, Stuart serves on the Advisory Council of the New York Stock Exchange and NACD Directorship and is a widely sought out content expert on current governance topics.

Stuart is also a board member for North Shore-LIJ Health System formerly serving as Vice Chairman, Chairman of the Quality and Ambulatory Committees and the Strategic Planning Committee. He has also served as a board member for European American Bank, Audit Committee and as Chairman of Dowling College. At age 25, he was the youngest elected member of the New York State Assembly.

Harriet Levine is Founder and President of Stuart Levine & Associates LLC. She is responsible for managing all financial, marketing, publishing, new business and deployment of capital and resources for the organization. Her expertise played a major role in the development and marketing of the best-selling leadership books created by the organization, including appearances on the Today show, and hundreds of prestigious television and print venues worldwide. Her professional advertising career was spent at Benton & Bowles working on Proctor & Gamble packaged goods accounts as well as J. Walter Thompson, on the $40Million Kodak film account.

Ms. Levine has served actively on the Board of Family Service Association, The Long Island Philharmonic and currently serves as an Associate Trustee of North Shore-LIJ Health System. She has played an active role in fundraising for The American Cancer Society and the United Jewish Appeal and has appeared as a guest on Telecare’s talk show, Critical Issues.

Ms. Levine holds an MBA in Marketing from the NYU Stern School of Business and graduated magna cum laude from Union College with a BA in Economics and Studio Art. She lives in Brookville and Bellport, New York with her husband, Stuart. Her two children, Jesse and Elizabeth are both graduates of the University of Michigan.

Liz Levine is the Director of Global Business Strategy for Stuart Levine & Associates LLC. She is responsible for managing online content, locating strategic business partnerships and identifying new global opportunities. Liz previously worked at Bloomberg LP for over four years as a Sales Associate for New York Hedge Funds. Her knowledge of the global financial markets and evolving technology have helped her to re-launch the Stuart Levine brand through our new website in 2011.

Ms. Levine has actively served as a member of the Stuart Levine and Associates Advisory Board since 2008. She is a committed member of the community and has volunteered multiple hours for the board of JBFCS, Everybody Wins mentorship program and UJA Federation.

Liz holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and is currently living with her fiancé in Hong Kong.

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