ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR THE COMMUNITY ADVOCACY NETWORK

Wendy MurrayBROWARD 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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Charlotte GreenbargBROWARD COUNTY: Charlotte Greenbarg is the current President of The Broward Coalition, Inc., and has been on the Board since 1997. She has been involved in reviewing, consulting and advocating for legislation, helping to organize seminars on association issues, coordinating community organizations to take action on issues that affect their taxes and insurance and presenting the Broward Coalition's positions to local, stat e and national officials. She has brought together the best experts on subjects that affect the members and the citizens in general and made their expertise available in town hall meetings, through the Coalition's website, and at the regular monthly membership meetings.
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Pio IeraciBROWARD 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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James F. HoppensteadtCOLLIER 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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Ewing SutherlandCOLLIER 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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Ed DuchCOLLIER 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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Bonita D. VandallLEE COUNTY: Bonita D. Vandall is President of Associa Benson's, Inc., a Florida corporation since 1975 and one of a few Florida recipients of the Community Associations Institute's highest professional designation, Accredited Association Management Company, since 1992.

Ms. Vandall is a professional community association administrator and manager since 1982. Her background includes recreational resort experience, homeowner and condominium association and commercial property management. She is a licensed Florida manager and also holds the National designations of Certified Manager of Community Associations (CMCA), Association Management Specialist (AMS) and Professional Community Association Manager (PCAM) from the Community Associations Institute and the local designation of Certified Florida Professional Manager (CFPM) from the Condominium Owners, Managers & Associates of Florida.
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Lawrence G. PercivalMIAMI-DADE COUNTY: Lawrence G. Percival is the Executive Vice-President of the Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations Inc. (KFHA) serving on their Board since 2001. A graduate of the University of Miami, with both Bachelor and Master degrees in Education, he has been extensively involved in community organizations since the 1980's. He is the Chairperson of the Salvation Army Advisory Board for the Sunset Corps, a Past President and 28 year member of the Miami Kiwanis Club and a member of the Founders Society of Baptist Health South Florida among many other local community Boards/organizations.
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Barbara Zee 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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Joel JeffreyST. LUCIE COUNTY: Joel Jeffrey is a retired engineer who served on Homeowners’ Boards in California for 9 years before moving to Florida in 1999. Mr. Jeffrey has served on the Board of Directors of Savanna Club for almost 4 years and has been active in local, State and Federal legislation that impacts deed restricted communities and developments. Savanna Club is a community of almost 1,900 manufactured homes in Port St. Lucie; there will be about 1,936 homes at time of build out. After his service on the Board, Mr. Jeffrey continues to serve on several committees and other community organizations.
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For more information, please contact Donna Berger at (954) 315-0372 or via email at dberger@canfl.com