Michael Goolden, CEO L7 Performance Management
Prior to founding L7 Performance Management, Goolden spent over 20 years in successively responsible positions with the General Electric Company. After graduating the Financial Services Management Development Program and several successful years in both sales and sales management, he served in diverse executive management roles and business segments. Goolden's positions included Senior Vice President and Region Manager, Vice President of Global Six Sigma Quality, and General Manager and President. Goolden's teams and businesses consistently produced record growth results. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Ithaca College and a Masters in Management from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Business.
Frank Ford, e-Marketing and SEO Specialist
Frank Ford is an internationally acclaimed Creative Director who's won every award in the book. He has been involved with girlawhirl.com since it's inception, directing the overall design of the site, layout of the pages and demand generation strategies. He continues to assist with the execution of short and long term SEO, SEM, PPC and Social Media strategies along with online marketing and branding. Ford has recently authored the book, 'Rank.'
John Hart, Emigrant Capital
Hart is Vice Chairman and Treasurer of both Emigrant Bancorp and Emigrant Savings Bank, has been an officer of the Bank since 1987 and an officer of Bancorp since it was formed in 1994. He is the head of the Capital Markets Division of the Bank and oversees Emigrant Business Credit and Emigrant Capital Corporation. In addition, Hart is responsible for the Bank's mergers and acquisitions analyses. He also serves as a director and/or officer of a number of Bancorp's and the Bank's subsidiaries and affiliates. Prior to joining the Bank, Hart was a Senior Director of Capital Markets of the former Meritor Savings Bank from 1978 to 1987. Hart is also Chairman of the Board of The Christian Heritage School in Trumbull, Connecticut and serves on the Advisory Board of the Bowery Mission in New York.
Joseph I. LaSala
LaSala is a graduate of Syracuse University with a degree in Industrial Management and graduate studies in Accounting at Pace College. He is a retired executive of one of the several Fortune 100/500 companies where he honed his skills in product design, manufacturing engineering, quality control, computerized cost and analysis systems, sales engineering, plant management and more. He has held positions as Director of Manufacturing over multi-facilities, Turn Around Specialist and General Manager of a multi-company group. After retiring from the corporate world, he and his wife began their own and recently sold business to locate Distributors in North and South America for previously self qualified European companies. He has brought over 50 years of experience to the volunteer ranks of the Small Business Bureau's SCORE by advising individuals and companies in all aspects of business planning and operations and to the VITA division of AARP while serving as president of his condominium board for many years.
Mike Diamond, Computer Programmer, Site Developer
Executed the development of the girlawhirl.com website.