Sanford (Sandy) Hinden is an international consultant in wellness, creativity, marketing, public relations, program development and fundraising. He is executive director of the Dix Hills Center for the Performing Arts and co-director of the John Lennon Center for Music & Technology at Five Towns College on Long Island. He is a development consultant for The Peace Alliance Foundation and The Fair Media Council. He serves on the Board of Directors of the new PeaceMakers Institute which grew out of The Pentagon Meditation Club. He also serves on the Board of Directors of The Studio of the Healing Hearts, NYC. Sandy is developing The African Business & Community Development (ABCD) Corporation/Foundation, The University of Love, and Positive Power Games. He was project director for Community Partners for Coordinated Services for Suffolk Community Council, creating health and human service collaborations for at-risk children and families. He was founder of the Metropolitan Peace Museum project for the New York City area and helped affiliate the International Network of Museums for Peace, more than 50 peace museums worldwide, with the UN. He founded and directed Universal Children’s Gardens fostering 135 community gardens in 17 countries and was nongovernmental organizational representative to the United Nations where he initiated The Concert for the Earth, with the Paul Winter Consort for the UN Environment Program, recorded at the UN. He practices and promotes Cocounseling for better understanding of feelings through validation, discharge and action to support new and emerging areas of one’s life, and Nonviolent-Compassionate Communication to achieve greater interpersonal satisfaction. Sandy lives in Huntington, New York. He has one son, Joseph, 22.
Steven Wade, Sr. obtained an AAS in Business Management at Five Town’s College of Dix Hills, NY. He was born in Bronx, NY and raised on Long Island as the youngest of eight siblings to a mother from Guatemala and a father from Belize, Central America. He is a Desert Storm Era, US Army Veteran who served from 1988-1995 and received a Generals Letters of Commendation, The Army Achievement Medal, The Good Conduct Medal. Mr. Wade has presided over Randolph Enterprises, a subchapter S-corporation since 1997. Randolph Enterprise coordinates business development, viability studies, retail location selection, site build-out, sales management consultation and buying services both foreign and domestic. Steven has attended numerous fashion, gift and textile trade shows throughout the NYC metropolitan area including MAA, NAMSB, Men’s Apparel Club, International Fashion Boutique, Fashion Coterie and others. He has managed, owned and operated several shops and boutiques and is the current Purchasing and Bookstore Director at Five Towns College.
Brendan Giordano is a partner in Positive Power Games and a consultant to organizations adopting videogame and virtual world technology. He is developing a global strategic skill set aimed at providing detail oriented solutions, organization, motivation and support to multi-cultural teams creating virtual existences. He works effectively coordinating people with multiple artistic and programming talents. Recent experience includes "Our Common Humanity in the Information Age," United Nations, NY where globally conscious professionals worked on ways for technology and new media to benefit the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. He has an MBA with a focus on Complex Adaptive Systems and Digital Media Research and has worked on many team driven projects providing market analysis, project assessment and new-media application strategies.
Robert Hansen is the founder, president and chairman of Long Island Film and TV Foundation which supports members of the film and television community on Long Island, New York. He served as president of the Suffolk County Film and TV Commission. Over the course of his business carrier he has worked in the areas of international marketing, public relations and product development for major corporations such as Anaconda, Revere Copper & Brass, Acorn Paper and Thermal Form Plastics Corp. He has served as a financial consultant and import/export specialist, making numerous trips to the former Soviet Union. A WW II Navy Air Corps Veteran, he received a degree in engineering from Pratt Institute.
