Dr. Katherine S. Conway-Turner
President, SUNY Buffalo State
Eric Reich
Co-founder, Campus Labs
Regional Council Members
AJ Baynes
CEO/President, Amherst Chamber of Commerce
Deanna Alterio Brennen
Business Administrator, NCCC Small Business Development center
Paul Brown
President, Buffalo Building & Construction Trades
Dottie Gallagher
President & CEO,Buffalo Niagara Partnership
Dr. Rosa Gonzalez
Owner/Assistant Professor & Chair, Emergency Management Program, R Gonzalez Consulting, Inc./Erie Community College
Thomas A. Kucharski
President & CEO, Invest Buffalo Niagara
Brenda W. McDuffie
President & CEO, Buffalo Urban League, Inc.
Michael Metzger
Vice President for Finance and Administration, SUNY Fredonia
Mary Beth Popp
Vice President of Corporate Relations, FIFCO USA
Stephen Tucker
President & CEO, Northland Workforce Training Center
Michael Ulbrich
President, Buffalo Manufacturing Works
Dr. Mark Zupan
President, Alfred University
Ex-Officio
Crystal Abers
Cattaraugus County Director of Economic Development, Planning & Tourism designee of Cattaraugus County Legislature Chair
Paul “PJ” Wendel
Chautauqua County Executive
Byron W. Brown
Mayor of Buffalo
Curtis Crandall
Chair of Allegany County Legislature
Robert Restaino
Mayor of Niagara Falls
Rebecca Wydysh
Chair of Niagara County Legislature
Mark Poloncarz
Erie County Executive
Eddie Sundquist
Mayor of Jamestown