Membership of New Regional Economic Development Council

Members of the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council:

Co-chairs — Bjong Wolf Yeigh, president of SUNYIT, and Lawrence T. Gilroy III, president of Gilroy, Kernan & Gilroy, Inc.

General members — Charles Green, president & CEO, Assured Information Security, Inc.; Marianne W. Gaige, president & CEO, Cathedral Corporation; Nicholas O. Matt, president, Matt Brewing Company; V. Daniel Robinson II, president & CEO, New York Central Mutual Insurance Company; Richard C. Smith, president and CEO of Robison & Smith; William L. Keller III, president & CEO, Keymark Corp.; Nancy Pattarini, president & CEO, The Paige Group; Juanita Bass, owner, Juanita’s Soul Classics Inc.; Sheila Murphy, owner, Nunn’s Home Medical Equipment.

Frank DeRiso, president, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union; Randall VanWagoner, president, Mohawk Valley Community College; Margaret O’Shea, president & CEO, The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties; Mary Morse, owner, Kwik-Kut Mfg.; Richard Ball, owner, Schoharie Valley Farms/Carrot Barn; Steven DiMeo, president, Mohawk Valley EDGE (Economic Development Growth Enterprises Corporation); Michael J. Reese, president & CEO, Fulton County Economic Development Corporation; Deborah Auspelmyer, president, Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce; Carolyn A. Lewis, economic developer, Otsego County Economic Development; Scott White, president, Bank of Cooperstown.

Elected officials (ex-officio) — Oneida County executive; chairmen of Montgomery Board of Supervisors, Fulton Board of Supervisors, Otsego Board of Supervisors, Herkimer County Legislature, and Schoharie County Legislature, respectively; mayors of Utica, Amsterdam and Gloversville. (Mayors are from the three largest municipalities in the region, with a limit of one municipal representative per county.)