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Board Members:
Derek R. Reisfield, Chairman of the Board
Robert Abrams
Walter T. Burke
Timothy E. Casserly
Wade C. Davis
Steven M. Klosk
Joseph Siegelbaum
Harold Hess, M.D.

Robert Abrams, Co-Content Coordinator

Robert Abrams is one of the authors of the new McGraw-Hill reference book, BoomerBasics: Our Parents, Our Children, Ourselves expected in book stores by mid- January 2000. Bob is the managing partner of Law Offices of Robert Abrams, P.C., a nine attorney firm located in Lake Success, New York. The firm provides services in several areas, including guardianships, elder law, health law, estate planning and administration and related litigation matters.

Bob created and served as Editor-in-Chief of "Guardianship Practice in New York State", a 1712 page book consisting of 27 chapters, over 100 forms and sample pleadings, a comprehensive list of guardianship cases and helpful practice tips.

Mr. Abrams is an active member of several professional organizations, including the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA). He is the former Chair of the NYSBA's Elder Law Section and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Health Law Section. He is the founder of Decision-Making Day, an annual volunteer program sponsored by NYSBA and recognized by New York State Governor George Pataki. This program is designed to advise New Yorkers of the importance of advance directives, such as Health Care Proxies and Powers of Attorney.

He also served in NYSBA's House of Delegates from 1994 to 1997. He is a sustaining member of the NYSBA and a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation. Bob was selected by former New York State Governor Mario Cuomo to serve as a New York State delegate to the White House Conference on Aging in 1995.

Bob earned a Master's Degree in Public Administration from New York University, a JD from the New York Law School and is a New York State licensed nursing home administrator.

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Walter T. Burke

Walter Burke is one of the author's of the exciting new McGraw-Hill reference text, BoomerBasics: Our Parents, Our Children, Ourselves. In 1988, Walter Burke and his partner, Timothy E. Casserly, founded Burke and Casserly, P.C., a two-lawyer, two-staff firm, specializing in planning for all phases of life. Based in Albany, New York, their firm has grown to a mid-size regional firm, now known as Burke, Casserly & Gable, P.C. One of Walter's primary areas of expertise is the burgeoning area of Elder Law. He is very active with the New York State Bar Association and is a former Chair of the Elder Law Section, which has over 2,500 attorneys in New York State. He also serves on the Elder Law Executive Committee. Walter had the honor of participating as Coordinator of the White House Mini-Conference on Aging and served as an Official Observer at the White House Conference on Aging in Washington, D.C. in 1995. Walter earned his BA in English from Manhattan College, a Master's Degree in Education from Iona College in New Rochelle and his Juris Doctorate from Fordham University School of Law.

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Timothy E. Casserly, Co-Content Coordinator

Tim Casserly is one of the author's of the exciting new McGraw-Hill reference text, BoomerBasics: Our Parents, Our Children, Ourselves. Tim along with his partner, Walter T. Burke, founded the law firm of Burke & Casserly, P.C. in 1988 (and has since become Burke, Casserly & Gable, P.C.) which focuses on planning for all phases of life including estate planning, elder law, taxation and estate administration. Tim also concentrates in financial planning having received his Certified Financial Planner designation from the College for Financial Planning in Denver, Colorado. Tim has written, lectured and appeared on television broadcasts on the topics of elder law, estate and financial planning, insurance and investments. Tim received a BA in Economics and Communications from Boston College in 1981 and his Juris Doctorate from Albany Law School of Union University in Albany, New York in 1984.

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Wade C. Davis

Wade Davis, a senior member of the Global Technology Group of Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, specializes in IT services, the Internet and application software sectors. Recent assignments include advisor to Geocities in its acquisition by Yahoo, advisor to VentureOne Corporation in its sale to Reuters; Alcatel SA in its acquisition of Packet Engines; advisor to the Carlyle Group and BDM International in its acquisition by TRW; advisor to the General Motors Pension Plan and U.S. Trust with respect to the Plan's holding of the common stock of EDS; advisor to Geocities in its recent recapitalization by Yahoo! and Softbank; advisor to Ikonic Interactive in its sale to USWeb Corporation.

Previously, Mr. Davis was a founding member of Wasserstein Perella's Technology Group, most recently having served as the Chief Operating Officer of that group.

Wade holds degrees with distinction in both Philosophy and Economics from Williams College.

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Steven M. Klosk

For the past eight years, Steve Klosk has been the Executive Vice President of Cambrex Corporation, a Life Sciences company traded on the NYSE with $500 million in sales. Cambrex operates 15 subsidiaries in the USA, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, England and Denmark and employs 1900 employees worldwide. Steve holds a BS from Cornell and JD from the New York Law School and is a member of the New York and New Jersey State Bar Associations.

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Barbara S. Nodiff, RN, MS

Barbara S. Nodiff is President of Associated Geriatric Information Network, Inc., (AGIN) a health care consulting firm providing services to nursing facilities, adult homes, physician group practices and managed care organizations in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio and Florida. AGIN's services focus on regulatory compliance, development of new services and programs and cost effective operational management.

Ms. Nodiff is co-author of the Quality Assessment and Assurance Manual for Long-Term Facilities (National Health Publishing, 1991) and a contributing author to Guardianship Practice in New York State (New York State Bar Association, 1997). She is well known to audiences of health care professionals and other interested parties regarding issues pertinent to long term care.

Barbara volunteers in the community, providing assistance with special projects to those in need. She was recently married to her husband, Ed, and they reside in New Rochelle, New York.

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Derek R. Reisfield, Chairman of the Board

Derek Reisfield has spent his entire career in the media, telecommunications and new media industries. In addition to spending 10 years at McKinsey and Mitchell Madison advising Fortune 500 companies on their media strategies, Derek has conceived, built and taken public three Internet new media companies, each with a market capitalization approaching or exceeding one billion dollars in value. Most recently, Derek served as Vice Chairman and Co-founder of Luminant Worldwide Corporation the industry's fourth largest web services company. Prior to Luminant, Derek was the President of the CBS New Media Group, where he created and took public Marketwatch.com and Sportsline.com. He was also the General Partner of R4 Ventures, a private venture fund. Derek has a degree in History from Wesleyan University and a Masters in Communications Management from The Annenberg School of Communications at USC.

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Joseph Siegelbaum

Mr. Siegelbaum is the managing partner of Friedman Siegelbaum LLP, a 60 lawyers firm with its main offices located in Roseland, New Jersey and an office located in New York, New York. Friedman Siegelbaum LLP, a general practice firm with a specialized practice in the technology areas, represents some of our nation's major corporations in a wide rage of technology transactions. Mr. Siegelbaum heads the firm's corporate department and is regularly involved in both corporate and technology matters.

Mr. Siegelbaum received his bachelor's degree from Franklin and Marshall College and his law degree from Rutgers Law School, where he served as the Articles Editor of the Law Review. He has had article published in Computer Lawyer and the Rutgers Law Review.

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Dr. Harold Hess is a recognized spinal expert who has been in private practice for 12 years. He holds a BS from New York Institute of Technology, an MS from New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science, and an MD from State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn. His training includes a Neurological Surgery Residency at State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse and a Spinal Fellowship at University of Florida. Harold is Board Certified in Neurological Surgery and devotes his practice in Paramus, New Jersey to all aspects of spinal surgery.