"The Year in Review-2011, What's Ahead for 2012"
Four of my guests on this year’s edition of the “Year-end Round-Up” are back from last year. Again this afternoon we have Dr. Lewis Perelman from Virginia, John Puma from Mount Vernon, John Berenyi from New York and all over the world, Dr. Bob Flower from Bronxville and special guest from Boston and Harvard University, Dana Garfunkel The topic today will be a review of the year 2011, reflections on the first three years of the Obama Administration, and predictions for 2012.
John Puma John Berenyi Bob Flower Richard J. Garfunkel
Our first guest this morning is Dr. Lewis J. Perelman is a Washington-DC policy and management consultant. A native of Mount Vernon, New York, and one of my oldest friends, he received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from the City College of New York, and went on to study space and planetary physics at Columbia University and Harvard University. He later earned his doctoral degree in administration, planning, and policy from Harvard, where his studies focused on sustainable economic development. Dr. Perelman has over thirty years of professional experience focused on the processes of innovation, sustainability, and resilience—as a consultant, analyst, author, publisher, and teacher. Recently, he has been working on energy, climate, and other issues related to infrastructure development and risk management as a consultant to several associations, research institutes, and public agencies.
In 1992 he gained renown for his best-selling book “School’s Out”, which anticipated much of the revolution that the Internet and information technology would end up causing in learning, work, and the keys to business success. Since 2001, Dr. Perelman also has been actively engaged in work on homeland security, for the federal Homeland Security Institute and other organizations.
Lew Perelman Richard and Dana Garfunkel
John Berenyi currently he advises governments, corporations and non profit organizations from Mt. Vernon, NY to South Carolina and cities in South Florida on sustainability, risk management and strategic planning related to alternative energy. Internationally, he is an advisor on these matters to companies and public entities in Israel, New Zealand, Hungary and other areas. He has over 25 years of experience as financial advisor, technology and economic consultant and investment banker. His work has been at the intersection of engineering, business law, urban planning, management, economics and finance.
The focus of his activities: alternative energy projects, power systems, solid waste facilities, mass transit authorities, highways and bridges, affordable housing and mortgage finance, water and sewer systems, long term care facilities, non-profit institutions such as universities, museums, stadiums, hospitals and nursing homes.
John has undergraduate and graduate degrees in industrial engineering, management sciences and applied economics and public finance from Columbia University and was named a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University. He worked as the Co-Chairman of the NY State Task Force of business and economic leaders and citizens established to support the amendment to the NY State Constitution which now allows “Tax Increment Financing” by communities throughout NY.
John Puma is a career entrepreneur, who loves the challenge of business. John, who was born in Brooklyn, brought up on Long Island, and gravitated to Mount Vernon, was educated at the State University of NY in Buffalo earned a degree in Management & Finance and earned another degree in TV Production at NYU. John through his company – American Worldwide Energy - is deeply involved is 2 aspects of the NEW energy business - Energy Efficiency – reducing electric and gas consumption in multi-family housing and buildings and developing large utility scale Solar projects. He has developed a turnkey system to design, engineer, earn lucrative rebates and complete financing for these projects making them virtually no money down for real estate owners through the NJ Clean Energy Program and NY’s program through NYSERDA. This past year he upgraded over 3,000 apartments cutting their consumption in half and built 7MW of solar power making some facilities virtually self sufficient.
He is also a stakeholder with the NJ Board of Public Utilities and the NJ Office of Clean Energy and as such has made major inroads in shaping energy- public policy in the state of NJ.
Dr. Robert Flower, who is a resident of Bronxville, NY, is a graduate of both Fordham University and Walden University with a BA degree in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Philosophy along with Organizational and Systems Sciences. Bob is a successful entrepreneur, scholar and adventurer who has spent 29 years analyzing human potential and developing a methodology for achievement. Through his discovery of the Laws of Potential and development of Natural Intelligence and Thinking, Dr. Flower has achieved tremendous personal success, and helped others to set and reach their goals as well.
As Director of The Gilchrist Institute for the Achievement Sciences, a sociopolitical/economic think tank since 1982, he discovered the Laws of Potential and Natural Intelligence. He has written 3 books on Potential and Intelligence and lectured on the subject twice at the United Nations (1991, 1992). His books are published in 3 countries. As a General Systems Specialist (expert in learning, potential and intelligence) he has been frequently featured in newspapers and magazines, and has appeared on national radio and television programs.* He is now a member of the Economic Development Transition team of Michael Spano, the newly elected Mayor of Yonkers. He also hosts 2 shows: The Public Advocate in several cable markets, and The Master Pattern Report -- an international internet show where Dr. Flower predicts economic, political and stock market activity with incredible accuracy. WEBSITES: www.drbobflower.com.
Dana Garfunkel, a native New Yorker, who was raised in White Plains and has lived in Boston for the past seventeen years, is a graduate of Rutgers University and earned her MS at Boston University. She has been affiliated with Harvard University for many years and currently is the Assistant Director of Recruitment of the Office Enrollment Services of the Harvard Kennedy School.
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