Chairperson, Daniel Schneider
Daniel H. Schneider is admitted to the New York and Georgia bars and is a partner in the law firm of Schneider, Pfahl, and Rahme, L.L.P. with offices in Manhattan and Woodstock. He has been practicing commercial, corporate, technology and entertainment law for more than 19 years. A graduate of Vassar College (AB, 1979, Evans Fellow in Law) and Emory Law School (JD, 1982), Dan is a member of the American Bar Association, Section of Dispute Resolution and the New York State Dispute Resolution Association (Ethics and Standards Committee). Dan serves on many non-profit and civic Boards and organizations, including the America the Beautiful Fund (National Secretary), the Creative Music Foundation, Woodstock Mediation and the Woodstock Youth Theatre. Dan loves the Hudson Valley and wants to insure that it remains a beautiful, sustainable region where people can work and play, using the latest technology, in harmony with nature and with each other.

Vice President, Ric Dragon
Ric combines proven best practices with out-of-the-box thinking and analysis and consistently delivers a high standard of excellence within all the projects he's involved. Having been an exhibiting painter for over twenty years, Ric has extended his artistic talents to Web development since 1997, when he founded Oxclove Workshop. applying his entrepreneurial vision to the shop's daily challenges and long-term opportunities.

Vice President, Brad Will, R.A.
is a registered architect in New York and California. He is principal and owner of Ashokan Architecture & Planning, PLLC (AAP), which was founded by Peter Reynolds and merged to form the present company in January 2002. Prior to AAP, Mr. Will was a sole proprietor in the San Francisco Bay Area, doing business under the
name of CADenza Architecture & Planning for a period of six years.
During his time in California, which included time in the San Diego
area, Mr. Will worked on a variety of projects - senior living centers, new and remodeled single family homes, office high rises, public schools and retail tenant improvements. Mr. Will also performed CAD training for small architectural firms. His professional degree in Architecture was earned from Cornell University in 1984.

Mr. Will lives in Bearsville with his wife Pin Xu Will, also an architect, and their two cats Roxie and Elsie. He currently serves on the Woodstock Zoning Board of Appeals and participates in non-profit ventures whenever time allows. Both he and Pin are enthusiastic supporters of live music and the arts.

Treasurer,Charlotte W. Pfahl
Charlotte W. Pfahl received a B.A. cum laude from University of Denver in 1973 and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1978. She also attended Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., the N.Y.U. School of Law, LLM. in Taxation, and the World Trade Institute. Ms. Pfahl specializes in private client matters (wills, trusts, family limited partnerships) and real estate law. She represents foreign and domestic clients - including individuals, trusts, partnerships and corporations in a number of jurisdictions - on a broad range of domestic and transnational business transactions, including organization of domestic and off-shore entities and trusts, acquisitions of business interests and property, buy-outs and financing, as well as real estate matters, commercial and residential acquisitions, and leasing. Her real estate-related clients include cooperative corporations, developers, foreign banking institutions, and private investors. Ms. Pfahl is admitted to practice in the States of New York and Florida and to the Bars of the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Claims, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She is a member of the Financial Women's Association and The International Alliance.

Advisory Board

Cheryl Schneider
Cheryl Schneider has 25 years of computer and graphics technology experience and is the principal of the Mac Works, which is a Macintosh centric network and system services organization founded in 1990 in NYC and relocated to Ulster County in 1996. The Mac Works specializes in networked Macintosh computer systems and Macintosh to-other-platform integration and is a member of Apple Computer's Apple Solution Experts (ASE) program. This business is a NYS-certified Woman Owned Business Entity (WBE), and has completed numerous Macintosh related projects with distinguished corporations, small businesses, academic institutions, and not-for-profit organizations. Ms. Schneider holds a BS, cum laude, in Atmospheric Sciences from the State University of New York at Albany. As an instructor at The New School for Social Research for 5 years, she developed and presented a series of one day technical seminars. From 1992 to 1996 she taught Data-Tech Institute's popular Macintosh Survival Course, Advanced Troubleshooting of the Macintosh, and Networking the Macintosh seminars nationally and internationally for MIS professionals. She is a five time Macworld Expo Faculty alumnus and a three time coordinator of the New York MacUsers' Group (NYMUG) MacFair seminars. Her publishing credits include author, 'Co-Existing with PCs', The Macintosh Bible, 6th Edition, Peachpit Press; Technology Editor, InFocus Magazine; and technical editor, Macworld's Mac OS X Bible, Hungry Minds/IDG.

Harv Hilowitz
Harv Hilowitz has been active in the mid-Hudson region in a number of business attraction and I.T. business sector initiatives. He is currently the Acting President of Hudson Valley Technology & Commerce, Inc. Harv is a licensed real estate agent working with the Upstate Commercial Group in Kingston. Prior to this, he was Vice President of TechCity in Kingston, involved in the development of the former IBM facility there. Before working at TechCity, Harv had a successful career as a special education school administrator and teacher, having earned a Masters Degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, and advanced supervisory credentials (SAS, SDA) from the CUNY Brooklyn College Graduate School. A published author of a pocket book on the American Revolution, he is an amateur historian with a B.A. in archaeology from Hunter College and is a docent at the Mount Gulian Historic site in Fishkill. Harv is active as a coach of youth ice hockey teams, as well as girls' youth soccer in his home town of Stone Ridge, where he resides with his wife and children.

Carol B. Armitage
Carol has a BS degree from University of Delaware and an MS degree from Princeton University, both in electrical engineering, and approximately 20 years of industry experience in the telecommunications industry. She worked for about 17 years at Bell Labs/Lucent where her last position was as a Director in the wideband access division followed by 3 years at General Instrument (broadband communications), where her last position was as Senior VP of Technology and Strategy. Her strengths are in executive management of product and technology design and development, including VLSI, optics, circuit design, software, and system integration.
Carol is currently on the Board of Directors of several small high tech companies, including Telaxis, a wireless broadband access product design and development company, SCALA , a multi-media software development co, and LaSonRisa Productions, a non-profit, documentary video production co. She is also on the Advisory Board of several high tech companies. She is a counselor at SCORE (Service Corp of Retired Execs) counseling start-up companies, and does occasional consulting for several start-up companies involved in broadband communications (telecom market) nation-wide.

Carol has lived in the Woodstock area full time for the last
6 years, and enjoys coaching several small business owners in the area.
She is also co-owner of a local S-corp with her husband Steve.

Pamela Hastings
Pamela has a BS from Tufts University and expertise in product design and illustration, business, and health care. She has a web based business at www.pamelahastings.com, and designs, teaches, and publishes her own books on varied topics from paper dolls to hot flashes. She is becoming known around the world as an artist and inspirational writer.

Carol T. Savage
Carol Savage has over 25 years of management experience in corporations and advertising agencies. She has structured and implemented marketing programs, evaluated procedures and streamlined operations. She worked for American Express Company as Director of Corporate Communications. At Citigroup, she held positions as Director of Marketing and Communications for Citicorp Investment Services and Citigroup Business Services, and she was Director of Marketing for Citibank Worldwide Securities Services. She recently took early retirement from Citigroup, and has been a marketing consultant to American Express Company, Chase Bank and JP MorganChase , and Roundabout Theatre.

Carol Savage is on the Board of Governors of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York, on the Advisory Council of Hudson Valley Technology and Commerce, on several committees at The Olana Partnership, and on the Advisory Board of Hudson River Classics Showcase Theatre in Hudson, New York. She is a member of the Corporate Circle at Manhattan School of Music, and has been Vice President on the Board of Directors at 165 West 66th Street Corporation for the past six years.

Carol attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, has a BA inEducation from University of South Florida and an MA in Marketing Communications from Hunter College in NYC.
Carol enjoys skiing, golf and tennis. She also loves boating on the Hudson River.

Mark Tourtellott
As a senior Web Designer for Mindseye Technology from 1999-2001, Mark Tourtellot helped companies like Hasbro and Reebok translate their brands to the Web. Previously he worked as an artist and conceptual illustrator for Draper Lab, assisting with civilian and military engineering R&D. Offline Mark has worked extensively in traditional fine art and graphic design, even designing a two-story mural for the new Jordan’s Furniture IMAX Theater. Mark has a special interest in using art to help children and adults with developmental disabilities, and has served as a multimedia consultant for the Children’s Hospital of Boston. He holds a BFA from the University of Hartford.

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