Alisha Collins

The Possible Project’s mission and work are so aligned with my core belief that all young people, regardless of geography and background, deserve an equal opportunity to thrive personally and professionally.

BOSTON (PRWEB)
September 15, 2020

The Possible Project recently announced the appointment of Alisha Collins as their Vice President of Development and Corporate Giving.

The Possible Project is a youth entrepreneurship program serving more than 250 high school students from Boston and Cambridge per year. As they design and launch ventures, students develop an entrepreneurial mindset – key social-emotional learning and professional skills – that prepare them for future education and career success. “The Possible Project’s mission and work are so aligned with my core belief that all young people, regardless of geography and background, deserve an equal opportunity to thrive personally and professionally,” Collins shared.

Collins will lead The Possible Project in strengthening the organization’s corporate relationships and funding. This work is critical for the organization’s bold expansion over the next five years to serve 1,000 students per year and launch a new innovation center in Boston.

Executive Director, Becky Levin, offered high praise for Collins: “We are fortunate and thrilled that Alisha is joining our leadership team. Her broad experience, strong connections, and impressive track record are exactly what we need to bring our corporate relationships to the next level.”

Prior to joining The Possible Project, Collins held corporate social responsibility and development positions with The Greater Boston Food Bank, Reebok International, and Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Collins has also served on the boards of Boston Harbor Now, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, West End House Boys & Girls Club, and Stonehill College.

“The Possible Project allows me to bring together all my past work experiences and skills from business and youth programs,” Collins said. “I can’t wait to share The Possible Project story, and its transformational work with young people, with the Boston community and beyond.”

Collins holds a Bachelors in Arts in Communications from Stonehill College and remains an active alumna. She received a Masters in Science in Management from Lasell University.

About The Possible Project

The Possible Project collaborates with young people to develop entrepreneurial mindsets, professional skills, and real-world pathways to great careers and long-term economic prosperity.

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Goldvarg joins the National Law Review at a pivotal time due our exponential growth in traffic.

CHICAGO (PRWEB)
September 15, 2020

The National Law Review (NLR), one of the highest volume business law news services in the United States, announced that Tracey Goldvarg joined the company as Business Development Director. Goldvarg brings extensive legal business development and B to B publishing experience from her previous leadership roles at American Lawyer Media (ALM), Today’s General Counsel, and Inside Counsel. Goldvarg’s wealth of knowledge and legal industry know-how will enhance the National Law Review’s initiatives involving various advertising, promotional and other new product offerings.

The National Law Review is a leading source of information for companies and individuals looking for guidance on compliance and regulatory matters. The NLR’s COVID-19 pandemic coverage garnered over 4.3 million readers in both March and April of this year, and the NLR’s pandemic coverage continues following Congressional and Executive directives and local Coronavirus mandates.

Goldvarg joins the National Law Review at an exciting time, when the company is poised for exponential growth as traffic levels to the National Law Review have tripled in the last year.

Jennifer Schaller, Managing Director of the National Law Review:

“We are excited to welcome Tracey to our team. Her depth of experience in the publishing and in the legal and financial services fields is invaluable as we continue to grow and develop new markets, expand coverage in new areas and amplify our product offerings to our clients and in new verticals. Tracey’s upbeat attitude and exceptional commitment to client service is just what we need to keep our momentum going.”

Goldvarg: “I am thrilled to be joining such a dynamic and nimble organization at such a pivotal time in its growth. I look forward to continuing our on-going collaboration and welcome the opportunity to join a women-owned organization, that values the insights and talents of its team-members and has such high standards of customer service to its clients. Their client retention numbers are unparalleled.”

The NLR is a certified women-owned business enterprise that reports breaking legal news on emerging and on-going business issues ranging from business immigration to the regulatory and operational challenges of the Coronavirus pandemic.

The National Law Review’s U.S based editorial team publishes around the clock and optimizes legal thought leadership for search engine visibility, and for distribution via news syndication partners. The NLR also promotes our published content through their extensive social media network, and to their over 135,000 daily newsletter subscribers.

About the National Law Review: The National Law Review is a daily legal news website with a mission to provide objective, reliable and practical litigation, legislative and administrative legal news and analysis through partnership with law firms, other legal and business organizations and our own staff journalists. The NLR’s online platform was developed by corporate attorneys and is the online descendant of a legal publication tracing its roots back to 1888. With the talents of our own writers and contributing authors, the National Law Review has grown into one of the highest volume business law publications in the U.S., with an average of 2 million visitors each month. Visit us at http://www.NatLawReview.com.

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“I am humbled to be recognized by my traffic attorney peers. I am fortunate to have a great and productive Board to ensure fairness to the adjudication of New York moving violations.”

NEW YORK (PRWEB)
September 14, 2020

Matthew J. Weiss, co-founder and head of Weiss & Associates, PC, was recently elected to serve as President of a non-profit group of traffic attorneys known as the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys, Inc., or AMVTA. Matthew is a lawyer who is devoted to helping motorists throughout New York State with their vehicle and traffic law matters.

Since 1991, Weiss & Associates, PC has helped tens of thousands of motorists with speeding tickets, suspension, move over law violations, electronic device tickets and other New York traffic tickets.

The AMVTA was started over 25 years ago and consists of New York lawyers and law firms who handle traffic tickets for their clients and its focus, vehicle and traffic law matters affecting the public.

“I am humbled to be recognized by my traffic attorney peers,” said Matthew. “I am fortunate to have a great and productive Board to ensure fairness to the adjudication of New York moving violations.”

As his first major act as President, Matthew spearheaded a lawsuit against the DMV, seeking to end police officers testifying by telephone at the NYC Traffic Violations Bureau. He coined the term for this as ‘speakerphone justice.’

About NY Traffic Ticket / Weiss & Associates, PC:

NY Traffic Ticket is one of the premier New York traffic law firms handling vehicle and traffic law matters throughout New York State. Their dedicated team of traffic attorneys and staff has worked in New York a long time, being 100% focused on vigorously defending motorists who receive summonses for any type of moving or truck violation. Whether it be a speeding ticket in the Catskills, running a red light in Manhattan, or disobeying a stop sign in Southampton, Weiss & Associates, PC can help and make legal problems as simple as possible.

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AFERM

WASHINGTON (PRWEB)
September 14, 2020

The Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM) announced its Board of Directors for 2021. Board duties take effect October 31, 2020. AFERM recently held its 13th annual Federal Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Summit on September 10, 2020, during which AFERM virtually gathered over 375 Federal ERM professionals from both the public and private sectors—the largest ERM forum of its kind anywhere in the U.S.

“It is both an exciting and uncertain time to start my tenure,” noted incoming AFERM President Nicole Puri. “With change comes opportunity, and AFERM is ready to move forward both on key initiatives to offer more value to its members and sponsors, as well as to expand the value that ERM provides to the mission success of government agencies. I look forward to an innovative and challenging year as AFERM President, and thank our members and volunteers for the opportunity to lead this great organization.”

The 2021 AFERM Board of Directors includes:

• President: Nicole Puri, Bureau of the Fiscal Service
• President-Elect: Daniella Datskovska, Guidehouse
• Past-President: Ken Fletcher, Kestrel Hawk Consulting
• Secretary: Thomas Holland, Guidehouse
• Treasurer: Doug Webster, AFERM Co-Founder and Independent ERM Advisor
• VP-at-Large: Harold Barnshaw, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
• VP-at-Large: Alice Miller, Development Finance Corporation
• VP-at-Large: Sean Vineyard, 11th Hour Service

AFERM is the only organization that exclusively promotes and supports ERM in the federal sector. The AFERM Board of Directors will continue the professional organization’s mission to advance the practice of ERM in the federal government through thought leadership, education, and collaboration.

About AFERM

AFERM serves its members by providing a forum for discussion of issues relevant to the U.S. federal risk management profession, sponsoring related educational programs, encouraging professional development, influencing governmental risk management policies and practices, and advocating for the profession. Learn more at http://www.aferm.org. Follow the “Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management” on LinkedIn and Twitter (@US_AFERM). Contact: info@aferm.org.

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Dual Part Production Capacity Built at the NAI Interconnect Assembly Plant in Suzhou, China.”

TROY, Mich. (PRWEB)
September 14, 2020

This project at NAI doubled the existing part-specific capacity of the company’s Hermosillo, Mexico facilities by establishing the same part production operations in Suzhou, China.

The immediate benefit of this project was to provide a customer with the extra insurance needed to meet critical production and delivery schedules during the uncertainties brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. NAI’s investment to create this dual production capacity solved a critical issue this customer had in meeting important delivery dates when they transferred business from a struggling supplier to NAI, demonstrating their trust and confidence in NAI to build the dual capacity and meet still their stringent deadlines.

This recent project exemplifies NAI’s ability to allocate, split or duplicate customer production requirements among its various facilities utilizing its global manufacturing footprint. This footprint, coupled with NAI’s global supply management team, allows the company to optimize production, add flexibility and employ alternatives for their customers’ projects, while ensuring the uninterrupted delivery of finished goods.

Jon Jensen, CEO at NAI, reported “Our dedicated teams in Mexico and China worked quickly and diligently on this latest transition project, so that NAI was able to complete it in as little as 10 weeks, which can normally take a company up to a year to accomplish. NAI’s global footprint provides a definite advantage for our customers looking to mitigate risk and remain focused on continuity of supply.”

Mr. Jensen continued “There were many elements to plan and coordinate in order to accomplish this duplication of manufacturing capability in another part of the globe. We had language and time zone obstacles, although we turned these into an advantage as the plants in Mexico and China now each work alternate shifts to produce these parts around the clock for our customer. We needed to transfer all our well-documented production and test data from Mexico to China, as well as much of the material inventory. We also established a local supply chain and procured additional materials, supplies and equipment for Suzhou, and we calibrated and conducted the appropriate maintenance checks on all their production equipment. Our teams at both facilities worked tirelessly to meet, and exceed, the target deadline.”

NAI invites any company interested in offsetting the production risks associated with custom interconnect projects that are inherent with unforeseen events, such as the current pandemic, to contact them. They will be happy to discuss how duplicate and alternative manufacturing facilities can ensure continued and smooth deliveries.

If interested in NAI’s invitation to discuss how to offset the production risks from unforeseen events, Contact Us or Ask an Expert at NAI.

To learn more about NAI, please visit the NAI website.

About NAI

NAI is the most resourceful interconnect solutions provider customers count on to solve design, manufacturing, and logistics problems. Offering copper and fiber optic cable assemblies and harnesses, coupled with block assemblies, panel and box builds, NAI provides an unparalleled breadth of capability. Being remarkably scalable, flexible, and agile, NAI customer projects are brought to life very quickly, while meeting or exceeding expectations and delivering high reliability.

NAI strives for high integrity with customer relationships by providing notable transparency and delivering on promises. Product and market diversity, an extraordinary talent base and an ability to supply globally are distinct characteristics of NAI.

Only NAI provides this unique combination of company attributes, distinguishing them as the most reliable supplier of interconnect product solutions and expert service.

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Dave Poms, president of Poms & Associates

LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)
September 14, 2020

Poms & Associates, an independent, full-service insurance brokerage and risk management firm, announced today that its founder and president Dave Poms has been awarded a Gold 2020 International Stevie Award in the “Entrepreneur of the Year: Insurance” category at The 17th Annual International Business Awards® (IBA). Poms’ win of the global awards program’s top prize recognizes his entrepreneurship and industry leadership in risk management and loss control and his community advocacy of child welfare and school safety.

“It’s a great honor to receive this recognition from the International Business Awards,” said Dave Poms, president of Poms & Associates. “This award is a testament to the fact that inspiration can strike in the most unlikely places – where frustration with the status quo or dealing with complex problems when conventional solutions have failed – and it is these kinds of challenges that make you think outside-the-box. With enough persistence, ingenuity, resourcefulness and compassion, we can all find solutions and make real progress on the issues that matter most.”

Poms founded Poms & Associates in 1991 based on the premise that knowledge is the best insurance – that the best way to help businesses and organizations is to serve not only as an insurance broker but also as an educator about best practices in how to reduce risk and prevent loss before an incident occurs. With a company-wide emphasis on education, Poms & Associates today is among the top 50 privately held brokerage firms in the U.S. with six branch offices in three states. The company has been repeatedly recognized as one of the “Top Insurance Workplaces” by Insurance Business America magazine.

Over his career, Poms has been a driving force behind the creation of many public entity pools in the western U.S., including the New Mexico Public Schools Insurance Authority (NMPSIA), which helps New Mexico’s school system provide unique coverages that are not commercially available in the insurance market.

Within the past year – and under Poms’ leadership – Poms & Associates achieved a number of major accomplishments, including implementing an innovative risk management program in New Mexico schools that provided active shooter training and the tools for school administrators to make safe decisions and quickly report incidents to authorities. This training led directly to lives saved in shooting incidents in both Roswell and Aztec, N.M. Poms also helped write two school safety legislative bills that define and limit who can be armed in New Mexico’s public schools by requiring certain qualifications before an individual can become an armed security employee.

As the issue of sexual abuse continues to present a serious challenge for the insurance industry, Poms is a vocal advocate for the need for a major cultural change within companies and institutions – one where processes and tools are put in place to improve the safety of young people, and training and education are made central to enabling quick action that protects them when potential issues arise. In 2019, Poms successfully built bipartisan political support in New Mexico for legislation that created a task force to address the issue of child predators in the state’s public schools. The task force serves as a national model for schools in other states.

Poms is an advocate of the international Olympic Movement and has served on the board of directors for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation for the past eight years. He also supports the U.S. Center for SafeSport, a federally authorized nonprofit organization that is working to end all forms of abuse in sports.

The International Business Awards are the world’s premier business awards program. The 2020 IBAs received more than 3,800 entries from organizations in 63 nations and territories.

“Despite the unprecedented impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on organizations and working people worldwide, the number and quality of nominations we received in this year’s International Business Awards attests to the continued outstanding performance of many organizations. The commitment we’ve seen through these nominations to maintaining the success, health, and safety of employees, customers, and communities is truly impressive,” said Stevie Awards president Maggie Gallagher.

For more information about Poms & Associates, visit https://pomsassoc.com/.

About Poms & Associates

Poms & Associates is a leading independent, full-service insurance brokerage and risk management firm with a proven track record of providing innovative and customized solutions to businesses in high-risk industries. Founded in 1991, the company was built on the premise that knowledge is the best insurance – that is, the best way to help businesses and organizations is to serve not only as an insurance broker but also as an educator about best practices in how to reduce risk and prevent loss before an incident occurs. Poms & Associates today offers a wide range of products and services, including property and casualty insurance for commercial organizations and public entities, risk control, human resources and employee benefits and private services for high net-worth individuals. Among the top 50 independent brokerage firms in the U.S., Poms & Associates is headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calf. It maintains branch offices in Los Angeles, Sacramento, Calif., the San Francisco Bay Area, Albuquerque, N.M. and Dayton, Ohio. For more information, visit https://pomsassoc.com/.

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