Warner Babcock AM Private Enterprises
Warner Babcock AM Private Enterprises Warner King Babcock was a co-founder and CEO of NYC Family Enterprise Center. He is a Family Firm Institute Fellow and National Association of Corporate Directors Governance Fellow, and has been an advisor to family businesses, a family council member, family business CEO, board member, and a trustee of family trusts controlling family businesses, investments and special needs trust. Mr. Babcock has served on many for-profit and nonprofit boards over the past 25 years, including Attorneys for Family-Held Enterprises, Inc., the Lawrence Field Center for Entrepreneurship, and a boarding school. He has served as Chairman of Governance, Nominating, Bylaws, Membership, Enrollment, Financial Aid and Endowment Committees, as well as the Chair and President of several boards. Previously, Mr. Babcock founded a leading corporate strategy and development firm, Advanced Materials Partners, and led many teams of senior professionals from 1987-2011, working with very large and small family businesses, public and private companies. Mr. Babcock was also the Founder, Chairman and CEO of AM Private Investments, a registered investment advisor focused on working exclusively with next generation family members and family office personnel on forming new ventures and making direct investments, beginning in the early 1990s. Mr. Babcock merged these two firms in 2011, forming AM Private Enterprises, Inc. to focus on new forward thinking initiatives to assist family enterprises. Earlier in his career he founded a manufacturing company based on his patented inventions. He has taught MBA and undergraduate courses on boards, family business and governance in NYC, and he has published in Family Business magazine, Trusts & Estates and other leading publications. He has also been featured in the New York Times.
Kaleena Ma Mk vision center
Kaleena Ma Mk vision center Kaleena’s passion is to help patients with all their optical needs and "wow" her patients with a memorable optical experience. She holds an Associate’s in Ophthalmic Dispensing from City Tech as well as a Bachelor’s degree from Franklin and Marshall College. As a board-certified optician with over 20 years of experience, she strives to take her expertise to the next level in fit and styling. Kaleena’s knowledge also extends to insurance billing, contact lenses, and overlooking optometrists in the Mott Optical group. The optical group was founded over 40 years ago by Kaleena’s parents and she hopes to continue in the footsteps of them. In her free time, she enjoys blogging, rereading her favorite The Lord of the Rings, exercising, and spending time with her husband and two little ones.
Radha Ramdeen Business Development Coordinator at Ramdeenselectric
Radha Ramdeen Business Development Coordinator at Ramdeenselectric Radha Ramdeen is a third-generation member of Ramdeen's Electric, a family-owned MBE small business based in Queens, New York, where she serves as the Business Development Coordinator. This year makes it 40 years since it has been established. With expertise in marketing, branding, communication, and finance, she has also successfully organized the company’s participation in significant state events. Aside from the business, she is also the Co-Founder of a non-profit organization: The Hindu Diaspora Foundation, which her father established in 2023, Radha champions cultural representation through Indian community initiatives internationally, as well as Indian classical dance in countries such as Trinidad and Suriname. Dedicated to ongoing self-improvement, she balances her professional endeavors with her artistic passions.
Michael Shoule VP at JW Hampton Jr & Co Inc Michael Shoule is Vice President of his family’s 156-year-old logistics company, JW Hampton https://www.jwhampton.com/ co-chair of our newly formed Family-Owned Business Committee and author of the children’s book My Daddy Loves Boston College Football
Alexis Soterakis Attorney at Coran Ober P.C.
Alexis Soterakis Attorney at Coran Ober P.C. Alexis Soterakis, Esq. of Coran Ober P.C. is a transactional attorney with nearly 20 years of small business experience. Her commercial practice in Flushing focuses on corporate formation and compliance, commercial real estate, leasing, mergers and acquisitions, financing, and secured transactions. She also advises clients with regard to intellectual property, labor and employment, and estate planning. She lives in Queens with her husband and two daughters. In spare time she enjoys watching classic movies and knitting (poorly).