Oct 6, 2008 - Harnessing Volunteer Relationships to Create Powerful Teamwork Outcomes
A Review of the HBA Metro Chapter’s Annual Business Meeting and Volunteer Recognition Event
This year marks the beginning of a new tradition: the inauguration of the incoming chapter board prior to the Leadership Institute and Conference. This new arrangement gives our 2009 incoming board members the opportunity to acclimate better, to become involved earlier in the planning for the new Chapter year, to have ample time to learn from their outgoing predecessors and . . . to attend the Leadership Institute and Conference together as the incoming HBA Metro Chapter Board of Directors.
And so, over 130 voting HBA members gathered for the Annual Business Meeting and the Volunteer Appreciation Event in the rooftop loft of Penthouse 15 in New York City, on the night of October 2, 2008.
The 2009 board will be presided over by Julie Kampf. Julie’s roles within the HBA include Co-Director of programs, Managing Director of Development, Vice President and President-Elect. Last year she was named chair of the global Rising Star program for WOTY for the third consecutive year.
Julie is founder and president of JBK Associates, an award-winning executive search firm that – in just a few short years – was named one of Working Mother magazine’s top 25 Woman Owned Businesses, certified as a woman-owned business by the prestigious Women's Business Enterprise National Council and became a member of the AESC, Association of Executive Search Consultants. Most recently she has launched Career Central, a coaching and leadership development consulting firm that works with client companies and individuals to help develop, train and coach future leaders in industry. She is a frequent speaker at corporate and industry events as well as an expert source for the media. In her spare time, Julie sits on the Howard University Board of Visitors for the John Johnson School of Communications and raises monies for such charities as The Guiding Eyes for the Blind and The Women's Health and Counseling Center. She is also a founding member of the United Women in Philanthropy of Bergen County.
Julie will be assisted by an Executive Committee, consisting of:
- President-Elect (for 2010), Julia Kelly Gramlich, Vice President, Account Management & Marketing, inVentiv Commercial Services
- Vice-President, Stephanie Bova, Sr. Manager, Worldwide Lipitor/Caduet Marketing Team, Pfizer Inc
- Secretary, Kim Rowe, Managing Partner, Agentive Sales & Marketing Solutions and
- Treasurer, Beth Everett, AVP Business Consulting & Technology Services, SAIC
The incoming Directors-at-Large 2009 are:
- Vicki Coffin, PhD, President, VC Pharma Consulting, LLC
- Charelle Cusberth, Principal, CRC Communications, LLC
- Barbara Haimowitz, PhD, Sr. Manager, Market Research & Planning, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Lisa Murrell, Founding Partner, MetaSystems Consulting Group
- Liz Stueck, Executive Vice President, Medical Education, Medical Education Trust
- Terry Beebe Thomas, Vice President, Business Development, J. Knipper & Co., Inc.
Ex-officio and other HBA Metro Chapter Board Members for 2009 are:
- Immediate Past President 2009, Kathleen Milligan, Senior Director, Global Marketing/Life Cycle Management-Plavix, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- Shellie Caplan, President, Caplan Associates, Inc.
- Mary Cobb, President, StrategicVue, LLC
- Carleen Kelly, President, Surge Worldwide Healthcare Communications
- Laurie Myers, PhD, Senior Vice President & Account Director, Regan Campbell Ward-McCann
- Leslie Cirillo Plante, Director, Information Systems Compliance, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
After the official part of the evening concluded, everyone had an opportunity to socialize and build relationships at the Penthouse 15 loft. Vicki Coffin, Director of Volunteers of the HBA Metro Chapter and her team organized a very elegant evening, honoring the many volunteers that collectively have made and continue to make the HBA Metro Chapter into what it is: “THE Organization for the Advancement of Women in Healthcare.”
A few pictures of this “star-studded magical” event:
Julie Kampf, Incoming 2009 President addresses the audience
Julia Amadio - Past President, Mary Cobb - Director, Corporate Outreach Programs and Laurie Myers - Director, Programming and Mentoring
From left to right: Terry Beebe Thomas – Incoming Director of Membership, Amy Urban Thornton – Volunteer Committee and Event Organizer, Beth Everett – Treasurer, Angela Brzyski - Volunteer Committee
From left to right: Adrienne Robinson, Candace Krulan, De Scacchetti and Leslie Cirillo Plante
Many volunteers were honored and recognized with a personalized HBA Metro Chapter clock cast in Lucite (“Time to Make a Difference”).
Personalized Lucite HBA Metro Chapter Recognition Clocks
Click Here for the complete list of volunteers who have supported the Metro Chapter to its success in 2008.
We welcome the new Board of Directors of the HBA Metro Chapter and thank all the volunteers who so generously shared their discretionary time. We wish everyone all the best for a productive and successful 2009 Chapter year!
Thank you to everyone who assisted in the creation of the Volunteer Recognition Event, especially the staff of Penthouse 15 and Howard Rich, Managing Partner of “The Concierge” for the personalized HBA Metro Chapter Volunteer Recognition clocks.