Ward E. Leber: Over the past 28 years of child advocacy work, Mr. Leber has developed a wide variety of programs and services for charitable purposes; many of which have been recognized and recorded in the Library of Congress. Some of those projects include work with The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, The U.S. Department of Transportation, The National Highway Traffic Safety Association, The U.S. Department of Justice, The U.S. Postal Service, The United Nations, The House and Senate, along with various other local and national charitable organizations. Mr. Leber has been given special congressional recognition on 6 separate occasions for his innovation and expertise on pediatric injury prevention and child advocacy work. Mr. Leber has testified before Congress as an expert witness on the use of Federal funds for missing and abused children. Mr. Leber was formerly appointed by (then) Senator Pete Wilson to the U.S. Attorney General’s Advisory Board on missing and exploited children. He has also developed a number of award-winning public service announcements for radio, television and print using nationally recognized celebrities and leaders in government. Mr. Leber has launched statewide and national cooperative child safety educational campaigns and written a number of publications on safety distributed to millions of parents via CSN and PTA.
Advisory Board
Otha Thornton
Otha Thornton, immediate past president of National PTA, has recently presided over 22,000 PTA chapters (about 20 million parents) and over 4 million dues paying PTA parents. His work as President over the past two years was as a volunteer on leave as a senior operations analyst with General Dynamics in Fort Stewart, Georgia. He is a retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel and his last two assignments were with the White House Communications Agency and United States Forces-Iraq in Baghdad. Thornton earned the Bronze Star Medal for exceptional performance in combat operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom 2009-2010. He is a life member of the National Eagle Scout Association and has more than 25 years of active service in the scouting program across the United States and around the world. Thornton received his bachelor’s degree in urban studies from Morehouse College and a master’s degree in communications from Michigan Technological University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Michigan Technological University in 2009.
Dr. Michele Borba
An internationally renowned educator, award-winning author, parenting expert and child and adolescent expert. She is recognized for her practical, solution-based strategies to strengthen children’s behavior, character, and social development, and to build strong families. A sought-after motivational speaker, she has presented workshops and keynote addresses throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the South Pacific and has served as an educational consultant to hundreds of schools. Her proposal: “Ending School Violence and Student Bullying” (SB1667) was signed into California law in 2002. She offers realistic, research-based advice culled from a career of working with over one million parents and educators worldwide. Dr. Borba is an NBC contributor who has appeared over 97 times on the NBC TODAY show as well as being featured on countless talk shows including Dr. Phil.
Dr. Linda F. Bluth
Dr. Bluth has 48 years of experience as a Special Educator including 33 years in special needs transportation. Her past experience includes work at the United States Department of Education (USDE) and as a University Professor; School System Administrator; and Policy Specialist in the Maryland Governor’s Office for Children Youth and Families. She is currently employed part-time at the Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Special Education/Early Intervention Services. Dr. Bluth is the Past-President, National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT), as well as the recipient of the NAPT Distinguished Service Award (2000). She previously served as NAPT Director at Large (1995–1998) and Special Needs Committee Chairperson. She authored four editions of Transporting Students with Disabilities. In addition, she has over 100 publications in the field of transportation and numerous education publications. She administers the Special Needs Endorsement Program.
Dr. Lisa Smith
When Lisa’s son was diagnosed with autism at age 3 ½, she began a passionate quest comprised of research, education and hands-on experience, creating a program that ultimately led to the remediation of her son’s autism. Now, at age 22, he is considered indistinguishable from his peers! She has taken this life-learning, coupled with a Master’s Degree in Child and Adolescent Developmental Psychology, a Master’s and Doctorate in Metaphysics and Transpersonal Counseling, certification in Family Effectiveness Training, and as a Neurodevelopmentalist to assist other families. Her life mission is to share this eclectic experience and knowledge to help parents to parent consciously and holistically. She works with families of all kinds to create a business model for parenting with a program known as ESP (Effective Strategies for Parenting) and teaches CPS (Conscious Parenting Strategies) for effective parenting. Lisa believes that all behavior is a language and teaches parents to interpret this language. She also believes that effective strategies must incorporate the child’s mind, body and spirit to create strong efficacy and self-esteem. These integrated practices create a whole child who is “monster-proof” for life! Lisa Smith, Ph.D has authored 8 books, speaks around the country about Parenting On Purpose and is available for individual consultation.
Joel Lisker
Mr. Lisker is a former FBI agent, Federal Prosecutor, and is one of the most experienced professionals in matters of world-wide investigations; having dealt with physical security, cyber security and/or kidnappings in over 130 countries. Mr. Joel S. Lisker is the StarGuard Director of Search and Recovery as well as a senior advisor on Cyber Security. Keeping our members safe and their personal information secure is paramount to us. One of Child Safety Network’s most unique talents is the advice of experts in the area of search and recovery.
Steven Sprague
Steven is proud to contribute his international know how in the cyber security Space to CSN’s child safety efforts. Steven Sprague is the CEO of Rivetz Corp. and one of the principle industry evangelists for the application of trusted computing technology. Steven has a strong technical foundation in the principles, capabilities and business models of incorporating trusted hardware into everyday computing, and is skilled at translating these concepts into layman’s terms. Steven is the co-founder of Rivetz Corp. a new company focused on the use of trusted computing and TEE for the consumer market. Rivetz provides app developers tools enabling easy access to the embedded cyber security capabilities of modern mobile devices. Rivetz is also playing an important role in providing the key technologies for the protection of private keys, encryption and secure instructions for blockchain and crypto currencies. Steven graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.
Michael Lloyd
Referred to as a boy genius at the start of his career, Michael Lloyd has certainly proven that right. In the past 40 years the prolific and talented record producer has accumulated in excess of 100 gold and platinum records – well over 72 albums and 34 singles. Lloyd’s records, ranging from Pop & Rock to Country & Jazz, R&B & Gospel, have been recognized by such organizations as the Grammys, the American Music Awards, the Academy Awards, the Dove Awards (the Christian Music equivalent of the Grammy), NARM (the National Association of Record Merchants) and The Golden Globe Awards. He is featured in Who’s Who in America, in California & in Entertainment. His chart records span five decades, from the 60’s to the present. Additionally, Lloyd has provided scoring/music supervision/song writing, song placement and/or music producing for over 85 motion pictures, 11 TV movies, 12 television specials & 29 television series.
Michele Fumerton
Michele’s vast experience in media and marketing, partnered with her ongoing involvement in Direct Response, new Business Development, Entertainment, Campaign set-up, Product development, Production, Promotion, and Multi-media Campaigns makes for a strong partner in the StarGuard’s National Sales Director. Michele’s uniquely combined professional experience perfectly positions her to effectively lead StarGuard’s marketing campaign from inception through completion. Working in New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, Michelle has developed and managed campaigns in the categories of Entertainment; Non-profit Organizations (including multiple national and worldwide children’s charities including Child Safety Network), Home Goods, Sports and Fitness, Retail, Fashion, Beauty and Health, Travel, Medical, and Automotive and over 40 consumer products.
Stephanie Duckworth
As a veteran nonprofit executive and business development director, Stephanie currently provides both fundraising and business strategic planning services through her own company; Wampum Books. Prior to this she held the position as Director of the Educational Leadership Foundation of New Jersey, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Urban League of Bergen County and previously, she served as the Director of Development for the Princeton Center for Leadership and Asst. Director at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Stephanie also was the Asst. Director of the National Commission on the High School Senior Year, under the Clinton Administration. As an educator she has worked with some of the most prestigious institutions of learning including Princeton University, Rutgers University, St. John’s University, The College of New Jersey, Colorado Technical University and various NJ Community Colleges, teaching over 100 college classes. Her dynamic personality and positive attitude is an inspiration to all who come in contact with her.
Mr. Jeff Cassell
The experts at the School Bus Safety Company have been designing award-winning driver safety training programs for school bus drivers for more than 20 years. Until now, their work has been private-labeled and not available to district fleets. But now, they’re making them available for the very first time. The School Bus Safety Company has a team of performance improvement experts with specialties that include fleet operations and safety, industrial psychology, instructional design and media production. They have worked together to bring you this breakthrough series of programs. Jeff is a safety expert with more than 20 years of experience in making kids safer. He was responsible for both the installation of crossing gates on more than 38,000 buses and the first major installation of the Child Checkmate System to ensure that drivers checked for sleeping children. Jeff Cassell is President of the School Bus Safety Company where he is responsible for helping create driver training programs for school districts.
Rick Perry
Mr. Perry has held numerous senior executive management positions including COO/VP of Operations for REIS/The Coaching Company, CEO/Facility Director of EG&G, COO of Whitney Education, and Global Program Manager of Sun Microsystems. As COO/VP of Operations, Mr. Perry has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology and a Master’s of Science degree in Business Organizational Management. He has implemented a worldwide e-commerce portal that centralized e-learning offerings. Mr. Perry has been responsible for implementing and managing several infomercial, continuity and e-commerce offerings, resulting in several million dollars of weekly revenue streams, all accomplished while implementing and managing a world-class CRM to accommodate growth and customer service. Mr. Perry has over 24 years of experience in operational management with startups, including ongoing operational and turnaround situations where he has managed over 150 employees.
Reuven Rubinson, CPA, MBA – Financial Advisor
Mr. Rubinson is a hands-on financial executive, with a wealth of skills in many areas. He has a successful track record of implementing and maintaining accounting and control systems through Sarbanes-Oxley and other SEC/Governmental compliance reporting, working with startups, joint ventures, acquisitions, reorganizations, reverse-mergers and restructurings. Mr. Rubinson received his MBA from New York University and brings 30+ years of experience as a practicing CPA. He worked at several CPA firms in New York and at 31 years old was admitted as Partner in an East Coast CPA firm, specializing in Wall Street clientele. When he left in 1988, the firm was billing in excess of $3.5 million annually. In California, he assisted with a pink-sheet listed corporation in 1988 and became their VP of Finance. He then spent four years as the Controller of a software technology company. He later assisted a local company complete a reverse merger to become publically traded and acted as CFO for two years, providing accounting services for another two years thereafter. He is also an Adjunct Professor teaching graduate and undergraduate Accounting, Tax and Finance courses.
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