Tribal Council

Gotham Founder, Blogger, Fred C. Klein is counsel in the Firm’s Labor & Employment Practice. Fred has counseled clients on workplace issues throughout his fifty-year career. Fred is well-connected in the NYC business community having co-founded...
Bandit : Group Chair
GOtham GREEN® : Group Chair
NY Legal : Group Chair
Lefty Group : Group Chair
LI Legal : Group Chair
Long Island : Group Chair
Gotham Film Festival : Group Chair
battle of the Bands : Group Chair
Gotham Events : Group Chair
Gotham Special Events : Group Chair
Gotham Co-Founder, Nancy Schess helps businesses understand and implement ever changing employment laws.   She provides advice and counsel to help employers successfully manage their personnel assets.  Nancy works closely with her clients t...
Women Long Island : Group Chair
Gotham Special Events : Group Chair
I am counsel to the law firm of Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP with offices in  Garden City and New York. I specialize in health care law, representing health care providers in transactional and regulatory matters. I also provide legal counsel to...
Long Island Dinner : Group Chair
NY Health and Longevity : Group Chair
Gotham Webmaster, Owner, CGT Marketing, a digital marketing and advertising firm that works with Fortune 500 companies to small regional businesses providing marketing services that help companies increase their sales.  Mitch's belief that ...
Students : Group Chair
I am a Third Party Administrator (TPA) for Klerer Financial Services Inc. We fully service approximately 500 different retirement plans per year. I specialize in the design, implementation, and administration of 401(K), defined benefit and profit sha...
Gotham Virtual : Group Chair
With over 21 years of experience in relationship management in the financial services sector, I focus on building and nurturing strong banking connections. I specialize in a consultative approach to commercial banking products, including Deposits, Tr...
Manhattan Dinner : Group Chair

Gotham Group Leaders

Lisa B. Waterman is responsible for directing the marketing, advertising, and public relations activities of the Garibaldi Group, a boutique accounting firm that focuses on the closely held businesses and professional practices that are the backbone ...
Women Long Island : Group Co-ordinator
Women Long Island : Group Chair
Long Island : Group Co-ordinator
LI Legal : Group Co-ordinator
NY Legal : Group Co-ordinator
Gotham Business POWER Breakfast : Group Co-ordinator
Dr. Odey Raviv is a learning specialist and academic coach who has worked for over 30 years with students facing academic challenges.  He has always been fascinated with helping students of all ages learn and thrive.  Since his first experi...
Encores : Group Chair
With over 21 years of experience in relationship management in the financial services sector, I focus on building and nurturing strong banking connections. I specialize in a consultative approach to commercial banking products, including Deposits, Tr...
Manhattan Dinner : Group Chair
I am a partner at Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP, where I specialize in corporate, M&A and healthcare transactions.  In particular, I advise start-up and middle-market companies on corporate matters spanning the life cycle of a business, from...
NextLevel : Group Co-ordinator
NextLevel : Group Chair
Alison Orlando began her career in title insurance in 2015 as Director of Business Development.  She works to ensure her clients real estate transactions are handled efficiently and smoothly. Born and bred in Greenwich Village, Alison graduated ...
Real Estate & Construction : Group Co-ordinator
Manhattan Dinner : Group Co-ordinator
Chicken Chow Mein : Group Chair
Zoomers : Group Chair
Areas of focus:- Intergenerational Planning- Retirement Planning Strategies- Investment Management- Tax Planning Strategies- Wealth Preservation Strategies- Estate Planning Strategies- Business Retirement Plans- Executive Compensation and Benefit Str...
NextLevel : Group Chair
WARREN M. BERGSTEIN, CPA, AEP©More than forty years of practice in tax planning, estate and trust administration and planning, personal financial planning and accounting have given Warren an extraordinarily deep understanding of personal finance. At...
Eastern PA/NJ : Group Chair
With over 20 years of experience in construction management and a robust educational background in architecture and engineering, Stephen leads Gotham Building LLC, a premierconstruction management firm in New York. His unique combination of practical...
Eastern PA/NJ : Group Co-ordinator
My law practice focuses on individuals and small and midsize companies with intellectual property, entertainment, business/corporate and litigation needs.  The firm has extensive experience with film, television, music and web video projects, as...
Westchester : Group Chair
I know what it's like to hire an attorney and not hear back within a reasonable time frame. When I started my practice over nine years ago, I made it my number one aim to provide unmatched legal services for my clients. To do this, I regularly commun...
Manhattan Dinner : Group Chair
Graduated Baruch College, started my professional career in retail management with The Gap, then Macy's and finally Coca-Cola. In 2000, I started a new career with Carr Xerox as an Account Executive working with the latest technologies in office equi...
Queens : Group Co-ordinator
I am the founder and chief photographer at Deutsch Photography. No matter who or what I photograph, I want the images to be truthful and powerful.  I’m a documentarian at heart, so I like to capture a sliver of story in every photograph. I for...
Bandit : Group Chair
Bandit : Group Co-ordinator
As a Government & Public Affairs Counsel, I bring experience forged during 23 years in public service to provide strategic political counsel to make a difference for clients who face difficult public policy matters or special needs in dealing wit...
GOtham GREEN® : Group Chair
Gotham Business POWER Breakfast : Group Chair
Helping others maximize their potential through better health and nutrition is my mission. Trained as an attorney licensed in Michigan and Florida, and having worked in health policy in DC I have the coaching and teaching skills necessary to help oth...
GOtham GREEN® : Group Co-ordinator
Gotham Business POWER Breakfast : Group Co-ordinator
Gotham Virtual : Group Chair
Passionate about architecture and design from every angle, JZA+D founder and principal Joshua Zinder contributes a unique style to every project. With a career that spans nearly 20 years, his professional experience encompasses residential, commercia...
GOtham GREEN® : Group Chair
Michael Garibaldi is President of this boutique firm that takes accounting, financial and management consulting services to a new level of responsiveness.  Focusing on small to mid sized closely held businesses and professional practices, Michae...
Long Island : Group Chair
LI Legal : Group Chair
NY Legal : Group Chair
Kelly has over 20 years of experience helping high networth clients, business owners and diverse professionals make sound decisions. Prior to founding WFS, she was for six years a financial representative with Northwestern Mutual Life where she enjoy...
NY Health and Longevity : Group Chair
NY Health and Longevity : Group Co-ordinator
 After 16 years at Newmark, GVA Williams, and Quest, my team convinced me to establish our own firm. I have been the leasing agent for 32 office buildings, and use that expertise to the benefit of tenants.Reachable 20 hours a day (G-D bless...
Real Estate & Construction : Group Chair
I graduated in 1982 from Georgetown University where I majored in French and minored in Spanish and Business.  I graduated in 1988 with a JD from Hofstra University Law School and with an MBA from Hofstra University School of Business.  ...
Long Island Dinner : Group Co-ordinator
Long Island Dinner : Group Chair
Chair of the Construction group. John Gallin & Son is a General Contractor/Construction Manager in the Tri-State area for over 135 years specializing in corporate interior construction....
Real Estate & Construction : Group Chair
Queens : Group Chair
Women Long Island : Group Co-ordinator

Gotham Event Leaders

In 1954 Spizz formed his first band, the Nordanels, with his high school classmate Neil Sedaka. During the late 1950's and early 1960's, he was the Musical Director and Orchestra Leader for many of the major hotels in the Catskill Mountains.  Du...
Gotham Film Festival : Group Chair
battle of the Bands : Group Co-ordinator