ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR THE COMMUNITY ADVOCACY NETWORK
BROWARD COUNTY: Wendy Murray has served on the Board of Directors for the Villages of Renaissance Master Association, Inc. since its transition in 2001. Ms. Murray was elected President of the Board of Directors for the VOR in 2004 and continues to serve in that capacity.
Ms. Murray is a State Supreme Court Certified County Mediator. She is also officially certified as a Florida Emergency Management Volunteer (FEMV) by the Florida Emergency Preparedness Association Commission (FEPA). Under the Dept. of Homeland Security/FEMA, she was a CERT graduate (Community Emergency Response Team) in 2004. This training assisted her community during the busy hurricane season in 2005. Her community, the Villages of Renaissance, was the first established CERT team in the city of Miramar in 2004. Three of the five board members, at that time, were CERT members and developed the first VOR disaster plan.
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Ms. Murray has achieved the CMCA designation (Certified Manager of Community Associations), is a member of CAI, The Broward Coalition and CAMP. She also serves on the Community Services Advisory Board in Miramar, and is President of the Miramar Communities Council Organizational Board.
Ms. Murray attended UNC-Wilmington and North Carolina Central University. She led a protestant missionary team in 1982-1983 in Europe and is very active in community affairs.
Her hobbies include biking, fishing, golf, tennis and anything outdoors!
Wendy Murray can be reached via email at
wmurray@canfl.com.
BROWARD COUNTY: Pio Ieraci is the current President of Galt Mile Community Association, Inc., a neighborhood of 27 associations in Fort Lauderdale, as well as being President of the Galt Ocean Club Condominium Association since 1990. He is also Chairman of the Galt Mile Community Association Presidents Council since 1996, Chairman of South Florida Business Advisors, Inc. since 1991, and is a member of Tower Club/Tower 100; National Association of Realtors and International Section; Florida Association of Realtors; Society of Commercial Realtors of Greater Fort Lauderdale; and Fort Lauderdale Area Association of Realtors. Mr. Ieraci is also a former member of the Knight of Columbus and the City of Fort Lauderdale Education Advisory Board.
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Mr. Ieraci is a licensed Florida State Real Estate Broker and a licensed Community Association Manager. He has served as a licensed real estate broker and President of International Property Investments Corporation since 1993.
Mr. Ieraci received a degree in business administration and marketing from the St. Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He continues to attend real estate brokerage and finance courses in the United States and Canada.
Mr. Ieraci was born, raised and lived exclusively in Windsor, Ontario, Canada until relocating to Fort Lauderdale in 1989. He is an American citizen, speaks and writes English, Italian, French and Spanish, and has been a professional musician for over 28 years.
Mr. Ieraci can be reached via email at PIeraci@canfl.com.
COLLIER COUNTY: James F. Hoppensteadt serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Pelican Bay Foundation.
Pelican Bay is a private community located just north of Naples, FL. The community is comprised of 93 residential condominium and homeowner associations
The Foundation, which is the master homeowners’ association representing all of the above, also operates two beach restaurant complexes; two tennis complexes; a community center housing a fitness center, education/enrichment rooms, and function rooms; a tram transportation system; an extensive beach furniture amenity; and canoeing, sailing, and beach fitness facilities. The Foundation owns over 80 acres of land providing for the above, 2 leisure parks, and over 2.5 miles of berm paths and boardwalks.
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Pelican Bay has about 6,478 residential units, accounting for more than 13,000 residents seasonally. Pelican Bay has a tax base of $5.86 billion. Mr. Hoppensteadt is a licensed community association manager (CAM) and a certified hotel administrator (CHA) with the American Hotel and Motel Association. Mr. Hoppensteadt is also a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member whose community involvement includes: Plymouth Visitor Services - Board of Directors; Junior Achievement – Corporate Volunteer; South Shore Women’s Center – Charity Golf Sponsorship Chairman; Plymouth Area Visiting Nurse / Cranberry Hospice - Board of Directors; Outstanding Community Service Award – Plymouth Chamber of Commerce; Plymouth Economic Development Foundation – Trustee; South Coastal Workforce Investment Board - Board of Directors; Plymouth County Visitor and Convention Bureau – Board of Directors; Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce – Board of Directors; United Way Campaign – Section Chair; Pima County Business Partnership with Education – Trustee; FL Committee for Employment of the Handicapped – Governor’s Committee; and Rotary Club International. Mr. Hoppensteadt attended DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. He is married with three children.
Mr. Hoppensteadt can be reached via email at
JHoppensteadt@canfl.com.
COLLIER COUNTY: Ewing Sutherland has been the president of Gulfside Condominium Association in Naples for several years. Ewing is a UK graduate in Business Administration, was a senior executive of a major international group and served on its operational Boards in the USA, Ireland, UK, Australia, China and India. He brings his wealth of business and community experience to his role on the Advisory Council.
Ewing is extremely active in promoting positive legislation and resisting legislation detrimental to all condominium and home owners associations in Florida. He is in constant contact with his local state legislators, who often consult him on condominium matters. Ewing has written and spoken on condominium matters on many occasions, earning him the nickname "Mr. Condo" by the Naples Daily News Editorial Page Editor. Ewing is single minded in preserving and improving all aspects of association life and property values.
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Ewing and his wife Christine came to the USA in 1988 when his company relocated them to Connecticut and have been proud US citizens since 1996. They had their first encounter with condominium living when they were transferred again by his company and took up residence in a large "Empty-Nester" Highrise in Melbourne, Australia.
They have lived in SW Florida since 1998 and full time in Naples for the past 9 years.
Mr. Sutherland can be reached via email at
ESutherland@canfl.com.
COLLIER COUNTY: Edward K. Duch, Jr. has over 40 years of diverse managerial and financial experience. He is currently Chairman and CEO of Partners for Business, an investment advisory firm he started in 1990. The firm provides Advisory Partnership services focusing on Strategy Formulations, Business Development, Operational Efficiencies and Marketing/Sales Planning.
Prior to starting his company, Mr. Duch was a bank executive with a multi-state financial institution, where he held positions of increasing responsibility from 1972 to 1990. He was responsible for a variety of areas including Marketing, managing the Bank's national retail bank, overseeing the Technology and Consumer Lending Areas, as well as various other departments. His last position was as Executive Vice President.
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Currently, Mr. Duch serves as Managing Partner for the Good Neighbors Institute, LLC, a company founded in Naples, Florida. Good Neighbors' mission is to foster a harmonious living and working environment for Owners, Board Members and General Managers of member Associations. Good Neighbors provides a web-based information system that provides Associations and its Managers the latest in professional management tools.
Mr. Duch has also published various articles on marketing and a case study on Electronic Funds Transfer at Harvard. He received his BS from Canisius College in 1970, his MBA from the State University of New York in 1972, and completed Harvard's PMD program in 1982.
Mr. Duch currently serves as the Legislative Vice President for the Gulf Shore Association of Condominiums (GSAC) and past President and Board Member for his condominium. He is a member of Condominium Owners-Managers-Associations (COMA) and maintains strong relationships with City/State Government Officials and many other art and community organizations such as the Eden Foundation
Mr. Duch can be reached via email at
educh@canfl.com.
ORANGE COUNTY:
Cynthia (Cindy) Montsinger, CMCA® is an Orlando, Florida native. She attended UCF where she obtained a B.A. degree in Psychology in 1983, Rollins College where she received her Paralegal Certification in 1993, and has begun her post-graduate studies at Kaplan University for her Master’s Degree in International Business. She has traveled the world extensively through her work in the airlines and has been practicing real estate since 2002. Her career in community association management began in 2005 when she joined and self-managed Lake View Condominiums Association 12. From 2007 to 2009 she worked tirelessly to create community awareness and organized the Concerned Members of the Community Committee to gather members of the 17 sub-associations in the community she resides together in an effort to transition the Lake View POA master from developer control which was long overdue. Cindy served as President of the Lake View POA and trained the new board of directors in their duties as board members prior to resigning. She created a web log for the membership at http://lakeviewonlakefredrica.blogspot.com.
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Cindy has a Florida real estate license and obtained the Accredited Buyer Representative designation and New Home Sales certification. She started her own business, CMH Management, LLC (http://www.cmhmanagement.com) after her last airline, ATA Airlines, went bankrupt in 2008. She graduated from City of Orlando Mayor's Academy in 2008 and is an Ambassador to the City of Orlando and serves on the City of Orlando Public Art Advisory Board (http://www.cityoforlando.net/arts/public_art/staff.htm).
Her current role is Branch Leader for the Orlando branch of RealManage, LLC, (http://www.realmanage.com). She has grown her branch from three to ten associations in less than nine months. Her experience includes sales & marketing, human resource management, portfolio management of HOAs and Condos, resort management, corporate financial reporting, risk management, parliamentarian procedure, budget preparation and she serves as the legal liaison for her boards of directors.
Her interests are music (rhythm & blues), art, dogs and animals of all kinds and her passion is community association management.
She recently joined the CAI Golf Committee.
She is on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/cindymontsinger.
She is on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/cindymontsinger.management.
She is on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/cindymobetterblues.
Contact her at cindymontsinger@aol.com or cynthiamontsinger@realmanage.com.
PALM BEACH COUNTY: Barbara Zee serves as Secretary of the Vizcaya Board of Directors and is the Board Chair for insurance issues. She also serves on the Alliance of Delray Board of Directors as Vice President of Legislative Affairs and Insurance issues. She coordinated and hosted the 2008 Presidents' Council. Barbara presents legislative issues at General Meetings and for e-mail and the website. In 2008, she created the Legislative Review Program for association members' board meetings. In addition, by request, she presented Legislative Reviews for COBWRA association board members, and for some individual Boynton associations' board members. She was also invited by West Boca Community Council to appear at meetings to address insurance legislative issues.
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On an on-going basis, Barbara sends research material and pertinent information from CAN to U.S. Congressman Ron Klein, Senator Bill Nelson, State Senator Ted Deutch, Palm Beach County Representatives Kevin Rader, Maria Sachs and Kelly Skidmore, plus Representative Julio Robaina (Miami Dade) and Representative Sandra Adams (Orlando). In 2004, Barbara represented the Alliance of Delray on then State Senator Ron Klein's Insurance Task Force, and worked with six county representatives developing a White Paper for his insurance bill.
In 2007, newly elected Congressman Ron Klein asked Barbara to work with his Washington office on research for a national catastrophe insurance bill. In 2008, the House of Representatives passed House Bill 335 - Homeowners' Defense Act of 2007. After House passage, Representative Klein publicly thanked Barbara for her contribution at his Palm Beach County press conference and presented her with their office's first printed copy of the official bill.
Barbara was the Alliance of Delray representative for COCA, a statewide association of associations. She organized local and other state members to work on COCA's efforts to propose legislative changes to Condo and HOA laws for the 2007-2008 state legislative sessions. The final result of the efforts of COCA and CAN resulted in House Bill 629/Senate Bill 2504 which unanimously passed both houses, but was vetoed by the Governor due to an added swimming pool amendment.
Before retiring, Barbara owned a commercial property and casualty insurance agency in Florida and had two licenses - General Lines 220 and Surplus Lines. She represented two insurers (national and international) for the entire state, and sold their products and presented educational seminars at association meetings and national conventions. Barbara was elected President of two counties and Executive Vice President of the State Board of Directors by members of a Florida business association. She served six years, until she sold the business.
Before moving to Florida, Barbara was appointed by the Mayor of Omaha, Nebraska to the Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women, was elected as Treasurer, then as Chairwoman.
Barbara has a B.S. degree in education. She taught school and, at the same time, worked for a Clinical Psychologist, while working on her Masters Degree in Psychology.
Barbara Zee can be reached via e-mail at bzee@canfl.com.
For more information, please contact Kristen Pesicek
at (954) 486-7774 or via email at information@canfl.com
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