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Board / Staff Members

Eployee Lising

Board of Directors

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Tara FitzGibbons
Tara FitzGibbons

Chair

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Tara FitzGibbons

Tara FitzGibbons

Chair

Business and Operations Manager - FitzGibbons Agency

Tara FitzGibbons is the Business Manager at FitzGibbons Agency LLC, a local and independent full-service insurance agency. Originally from Saratoga Springs, Tara attended SUNY Oswego and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1994. She then continued her education, earning a Master of Arts in Organizational Communication from SUNY Albany in 1996.

Tara is a licensed insurance professional overseeing the FitzGibbons Agency's daily operations. Tara currently serves as a Board Member & Chair of the Richard S Shineman Foundation and serves as a Board Member of the Oswego Health Foundation. 

Tara resides in Oswego with her husband John. She is an avid cyclist, runner and enjoys spending time boating on Lake Ontario.

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Ed Alberts
Ed Alberts

Vice Chair

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Ed Alberts

Ed Alberts

Vice Chair

As a local entrepreneur with 20+ years of health and wellness business expertise, Ed Alberts is passionate about extraordinary customer service and attention to detail.  Alberts believes in mentoring and cultivating the right people to drive success in business. His Navy background and training in engineering offers expertise in creating systems for operational success.

As a “serial” entrepreneur, Ed Alberts excels in management consulting and business strategy.  He currently owns several businesses with locations spread throughout Central New York and the greater New York City area including Riverwalk Oswego, F45 Training, Rehab Resources, Little Lukes Childcare Centers, WIRED Telcom, Strategic Domains, Oswego Hospitality Group, and RELAX The Spa.

Ed is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and has a Master of Science in Management and a Master of Business Administration from the State University of New York at Oswego.

Ed Alberts currently serves as Chair of the Oswego Health Board of Directors, and member of the Oswego Health Foundation Board of Directors.

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Pamela Caraccioli
Pamela Caraccioli

Treasurer

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Pamela Caraccioli

Pamela Caraccioli

Treasurer

President and CEO - Fulton Savings Bank

In January of 2022, Pamela Caraccioli was appointed President and CEO of Fulton Savings Bank, a 150-year-old mutual savings bank with six branches throughout Oswego and Northern Onondaga Counties.  Prior to this appointment she served as Deputy to the President at SUNY Oswego, overseeing external partnerships and economic development on behalf of the University. 

Pamela serves as a board member for the NYS Economic Development Council, the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board, and the Garrett Dunsmoor Memorial Foundation.  She also serves as Chair of SUNY Upstate Medical University’s Biotech Accelerator.

Pam holds a Master of Public Administration from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and a Bachelor of Arts in Law and Society from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  In 2017, she was named a Woman of Distinction by the New York State Senate.

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Neelesh Shah
Neelesh Shah

Secretary

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Neelesh Shah

Neelesh Shah

Secretary

President and CEO - Performance Logic, Inc.

Neel currently serves as the President and CEO of Performance Logic, Inc. a leading provider of safety and compliance solutions to the healthcare industry. Neel is a founder of the company and helped design and develop the software platform. Neel also has an extensive background in both project management and the healthcare sector having worked with over 500 hospitals during his career.  Prior to Performance Logic, Neel was a partner at Mercer Consulting Group where he managed large-scale business transformation projects within the healthcare sector.

Neel grew up in Minetto, NY where he currently resides with his family.  He attended Oswego High School and also holds an undergraduate degree in Materials Science from Brown University.

Neel also serves as a Director of the Tarandi Foundation, which supports and promotes education and community service through the provision of scholarships, educational grants, and community service grants with a prime geographical focus within Oswego County, NY. Over the past 20 years, the Tarandi Foundation has made impactful gifts to the Oswego Bookmobile, Sheldon Institute, and the Oswego City Library.

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Margaret Barclay
Margaret Barclay

Director

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Margaret Barclay

Margaret Barclay

Director

Executive Director, Oswego Health Foundation

Margaret Barclay is the Executive Director of the Oswego Health Foundation in Oswego, NY. The mission of the Oswego Health Foundation is to raise and manage philanthropic support for Oswego Health as it provides accessible, quality care and improves the health of the residents in our community.  Margaret is a 1992 graduate of St. Lawrence University where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree. After college, Margaret began her career in New York City working for New York City District Attorney Robert Morgenthau and then for NY State Senator Roy Goodman.

After marrying her husband, Margaret moved to central New York and focused her career in development for not-for-profits.  First working in development for Vera House, Inc., an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and then becoming Director of Alumni Relations for Manlius Pebble Hill School, a private school in DeWitt, New York. 

With the arrival of her first son, Harry, Margaret spent the next several years raising Harry and then George, her second son.  During this time, Margaret remained active in the community, serving on the SUNY Oswego College Council, a position she was appointed to by then New York State Governor George Pataki.  Margaret also served for a number of years as a volunteer and board member of Arts and Culture for Oswego County.  In addition, Margaret has served as a volunteer on a number of committees and organizations in Pulaski, New York.  She currently is on the Council for the Women's Fund of CNY.

Margaret and her husband, Will, a New York State Assemblyman, currently reside with their two boys in Pulaski, New York.

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Kathy Barker
Kathy A. Barker

Director

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Kathy Barker

Kathy A. Barker

Director

Kathy A. Barker, daughter of Barbara P. Shineman, was born in Greensburg, PA. When she was three years old, her family moved to Oswego, New York where she attended the Campus School. After graduating from Oswego High School in 1973, Kathy attended Pennsylvania State University, earning a B.S. in 1977. Further education at Cornell University enabled Kathy to earn a M.A. in Educational Psychology. In 1985, she married Steven Barker, an Englishman whom she had met at Cornell. Kathy pursued graduate studies in the U.K. at the University of Manchester, earning a two-year degree in Counseling in 1996.

Volunteer activities during her 30 years’ residency in England include The Over Sixties, a political action group involved in the construction of a second runway at Manchester Airport; the Ex-Pats; and The Christie, a fund-raising organization for cancer research and development. In November 2013, she returned to the United States as a new resident.  Kathy holds dual citizenship in both the U.S. and the U.K. Richard S. Shineman was Kathy’s stepfather.

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Linda Eagan
Linda Eagan

Director

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Linda Eagan

Linda Eagan

Director

Administrative Director - Fulton Block Builders

Linda Eagan spent her life working in the field of human services until 2016 when she was inspired to start a volunteer program called Fulton Block Builders-a grass roots community revitalization program mirroring the successes of the Oswego Renaissance Association.

She moved to Fulton NY in 1987. Since that time the city experienced a transition from a stable community to a disengaged community. As manufacturing left, so did the familiar people. Over time, the behavioral norms and neighborhood values became as depressed as the property values. Residents stopped interacting with their neighbors, which in time created a disengagement in the community.

Linda was drawn to the Healthy Neighborhood approach because it builds on the strengths of a community. This resonated immediately because whether Linda was raising her family; working in juvenile detention; prevention education; teen pregnancy or public health, she looked for the strengths in each person or group. She believes strongly that all people have many assets-even though- sometimes-they are hard to identify when hope is lost.

Fulton had lost hope, just as so many clients she had worked with over the years. It seemed like a very reasonable idea to transfer her skills to community revitalization.

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Floris Palmer
Floris Palmer-Nino

Director

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Floris Palmer

Floris Palmer-Nino

Director

Floris Palmer-Nino is a speech-language pathologist who attended Pennsylvania State University (BS, Speech-Language Pathology, 1971) and Syracuse University (MS, Speech-Language Pathology, 1972). She worked for 38 years at ARC of Onondaga, North Syracuse Central School District, and Syracuse City School District.

Her primary field of interest has been working with children and adults with severe communication problems. She helped establish Syracuse City School District’s Assistive Technology Team in 1989 and was a member of that interdisciplinary team for 21 years, coordinating it for three years prior to retirement in 2010. In 2003, she was able to procure a $1.2 million dollar grant for assistive technology for special education students in Syracuse City School District.

After retirement, she worked for three years as an adjunct professor at Syracuse University, and continues to work as a consultant for a group home in Liverpool, NY. Floris is currently a board member of the CNYSLHA (Central New York Speech, Language, Hearing Association), managing its website and Facebook pages. She also is president of Fit to Be Tied, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness of and research funds for amyloidosis, a rare bone marrow disease that took the life of her husband, Bob Palmer, in October, 2015. Fit to Be Tied offers a yearly 5K race and 3K walk in honor of Bob, and all funds go to research at the Boston Medical Center’s Amyloidosis Research Center.

She resides in the village of Liverpool and enjoys volunteering as a part of PAWS (Pet Assisted Wellness Services) with her golden retriever, Brody, visiting nursing homes, the library, Upstate Cancer Center, ARC of Onondaga, Jowonio Preschool, and the Syracuse Hancock International Airport. She enjoys frequent family activities with her daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren who have an organic farm in Nedrow, and visiting her son, daughter in-law, and two grandchildren in Wakefield, MA.

She is so pleased to be a part of the foundation that was envisioned by her father-in-law, Richard S. Shineman.

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Micheal Stephens MD
Micheal Stephens, MD

Director

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Micheal Stephens MD

Micheal Stephens, MD

Director

Associate Chief Medical Officer - Oswego Health

Micheal Stephens, BSc, MD, AAFP brings over 20 years of experience to the position of Associate Chief Medical Officer for Oswego Health.

Dr. Stephens began his medical career in 1997 in British Columbia and has clinical experience in emergency medicine, family medicine, hospice care, assisted living, and skilled nursing.

Along with his administrative duties, Dr. Stephens also provides care to patients at Oswego Family Physicians. In addition, he is Medical Director for Morningstar as well as at The Gardens and is one of the owner-operators of the soon-to-be- open assisted living facilities in Fulton, The Maples.

Dr. Stephens earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Guelph and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Western Ontario. He later completed his Degree in Family Medicine from the University of British Columbia in 1997.

Dr. Stephens currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for ConnextCare.

Staff

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Photo of Chena Tucker
Chena Tucker

Foundation Director

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Photo of Chena Tucker

Chena Tucker

Foundation Director

Meet Chena Tucker, a leader and dedicated advocate currently serving as the Foundation Director for the Richard S. Shineman Foundation. With a passion for community development and a commitment to making a positive impact, Chena brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her role.

As Foundation Director, Chena oversees the strategic vision and operations of the Richard S. Shineman Foundation, a charitable organization known for its contributions to various community initiatives. Her leadership is marked by a profound understanding of the local landscape, a keen sense of social responsibility, and a dedication to fostering positive change.

Beyond her professional accomplishments, Chena is recognized for her collaborative approach. She works closely with community leaders, nonprofits, and other stakeholders to amplify the foundation's impact. Her commitment to transparency and accountability reflects the foundation's values, ensuring that resources are directed where they can make the most significant difference.

Chena received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Design Studies from Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon, and her Master of Business Administration from SUNY Oswego. Tucker is a graduate of the SBDC Micro-Enterprise Course (2008), Syracuse University’s Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (2012), and Leadership Oswego County (2013) and was selected as the Forty under 40 of Oswego County (2013). In 2021, Chena received the inaugural Nancy L. Premo Woman of Distinction Award from the Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce. As an active member in her hometown of Oswego, New York, she serves on numerous boards and committees: Oswego County’s Early Childhood Alliance, Operation Oswego County, Workforce Development Board of Oswego County, Oswego County Community Foundation, LIFT Anti-Poverty Task Force, and the Leadership Oswego County Advisory Council.