About
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
1982 – Present • Founder and Chairman
- VIDICOM – Media services company producing and distributing broadcast and web programming for media outlets, not for profits and corporations.
- CITYBUZZ -The first citywide, hotel closed-circuit television network for visitor programming
- Contributing Correspondent, CBS “Early Show”, NBC “TODAY”, ABC Radio
1976 • News Reporter and News Anchor, WPIX-TV, New York
1973 • News Reporter and News Anchor, KSD-TV (NBC Affiliate), St. Louis, MO
PUBLIC SERVICE
1997 – Present • Board Member, Jacob Javits Center
2002 – Present • Special Assistant – Liaison to the families of September 11, Office of the Mayor
2002 – 2004 • Advisory Council Board Member, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
2003 – 2008 • Commissioner, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
BOARD EXPERIENCE
The 92nd Street Y
Association for a Better New York, Steering Committee
Special Projects Committee, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Global Green USA
Museum of the City of New York 1996 – 2001
New York Restoration Project, Secretary 1997 – 2001
PUBLICATIONS
The New York Daily News, “ War and Love: Lift Your Hearts, “ September 2002
The New York Times, “ Lives Lost and the Renewal of Downtown,” May 2002
The New York Times, “Unforgotten Soldiers,” October 2001
Simon and Schuster, “Breaking the Rules,” May 2001
Warner Books, “Decorating on a Dime,” February 1997
ACTIVITIES
Transition Committee-Mayor-Elect, Michael R. Bloomberg
New York Rising Committee, NYC & Company
The Inner Circle, 1979
EDUCATION
1973 • Master of Urban Affairs, Boston University,
1973 • Grunsfeld Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1972 • B. A. (French) and B.S. (Journalism), University of Colorado
1971 • Premiere Degree de La Langue Francaise, University of Bordeaux
