East Greenwich High School is pleased to welcome the following speakers who have graciously volunteered their time to speak to our students during the EGHS Guidance Department's Career Forum.
Career "clusters" were selected by surveying the student body regarding their areas of potential career interest. The Guidance Department then solicited and secured speakers for the top four clusters. This year's clusters are:
- Arts, A/V Technology and Communication
- Business Management and Administration
- Health Science
- STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)
Our thanks go to all of the speakers for lending their expertise to our students.
Arts, A/V Technology, and Communications Auditorium
Joe Madden
Mr. Madden is Vice President of Public Relations for Fidelity Investments’ Personal Investing Division, Fidelity's retail personal finance unit which provides financial planning, wealth management, retirement, insurance, college savings and brokerage products and services to more than 20 million customers. In his current role, he is responsible for broadening awareness of Fidelity’s products, solutions and expertise among its key stakeholders. Mr. Madden joined Fidelity in May 2012 after 22 years with MetLife. He has over 25 years of experience managing internal and external communications and community affairs and providing strategic communications counsel to senior leaders to convey the value proposition of products and businesses. Mr. Madden received his BA in Communications from Marist College in 1988 and an MBA in Marketing from Fordham University in 1995.
John Loughlin
John Loughlin currently works as an executive with the American Motion Picture Investment Fund in Warwick, a company that seeks out and invests in motion pictures and television projects. In addition, John is an on-air talent at News/Talk 630 WPRO in Providence. John has had a varied career as a broadcasting specialist. He started at WSBE channel 36 as a camera operator and researcher, worked at Channel 64, and NBC 10 before being hired by NASA in Washington, DC as Senior Producer for the television coverage of the Space Program. While at NASA John was ‘the voice of mission control” on several Space Shuttle missions.
After NASA John was one of the founding executives of The Military Channel, which is now owned by the Discovery Channel.
John returned to Rhode Island in 2000 to work for Context Media where he was the executive in charge of production for two Discovery Channel documentaries, an NBC documentary and a Lifetime Networks series. In 2005, John founded his production company Media-Rite where he produced a wide range of TV and radio commercials for companies like Fatima Hospital, Ocean State Job Lot, Centreville Bank, Bank Newport and Party City.
In 2012, after a brief stint in Iraq (John spent 27 years as a helicopter pilot in the US Army reserve) John, with several partners founded The American Motion Picture Investment Fund, with offices in Warwick and Los Angeles. he lives in Tiverton, Rhode Island and enjoys sailing during his off time.
Josh Nathanson of Morris Nathanson Designs
Business Management and Administration Cafeteria
David Piacitelli
Mr. Piacitelli is self-employed his business, Top Line Systems, LLC. He started TLS in 2002 after having worked for 13 years in his family's manufacturing business. He used the knowledge that he gained there to build a business model that addressed a need in the marketplace - skilled sales process for hire. They are a contract sales company for manufacturing and industrial companies. Essentially, they contract out sales capabilities to companies that need a sales department, but can't put it together, or larger companies that need early stage sales support for their existing sales organization.
Jeff Pembroke
Mr. Pembroke is currently a Group Vice President for Nordson Corporation which is a Cleveland, Ohio-based company with multiple businesses operating around the world. He has executive oversight for three global businesses that design, manufacture and sell fluid dispensing and flow control products into industrial, electronics and medical device markets. Mr. Pembroke’s responsibilities include setting and executing strategies for growth including mergers and acquisitions, allocating resources, hiring and developing talent and achievement of all financial goals such as profitability. He attended the University of New Hampshire and earned a B.S. from the Wittemore School of Business and Economics, and joined General Electrics Financial Management Training Program upon graduation, where he spent 16 years at GE in finance, sales, marketing and general management positions. Mr. Pembroke has been with Nordson Corporation for the past 9 years in senior management positions building and leading global businesses.
Mike Gemma
Mike Gemma is a local East Greenwich businessman who started GEM Barcoding Inc in
the basement of his Danbury CT condo in1993.
GEM Barcoding sells labels, ribbons, printers and scanners to Manufacturers, Hospitals
and retailers across the United States.Most days he goes to work in sweat pants and a sweat shirt. His company operates mainly online and through email nationwide.
Success makes everything seem easy – However Mike Gemma has had far more failures
than successes in his business career. His lifelong dream was to own his own business. He has been called a serial entrepreneur. He started so many companies that he cannot even remember all of them.
It was failure after failure after failure. And yet he never ever looked at any of these businesses as failures – but rather as learning opportunities.
Health Science New Gym
Wendy Schwartz
Dr. Schwartz is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Cumberland. She received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan university and my Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She works with adolescents, adults and couples, and has taught at URI, consulted to nursing facilities as well as worked in emergency rooms and inpatient units.
Adam Pallant
Dr. Pallant is a pediatrician and a medical school teacher at the Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. He works as the pediatric residency director and primary care pediatrician for kids between birth and 21 years of age at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, RI. Dr. Pallant’s main focus at Brown is to help to teach young doctors how to be pediatricians and his main focus as a pediatrician is to try to help kids who have pain (like headaches or stomach aches) feel better when the cause of their pain comes from stress, loneliness, or sadness. Dr. Pallant also has experience in biology research.
Angela Ciresi
Dr. Ciresi opened Ciresi Chiropractic in 2009 following her dream of a family based hometown practice and wellness center. Dr Ciresi obtained a bachelor’s degree in Human Anatomy and a Doctorate of Chiropractic from National College of Chiropractic in Lombard, Illinois in 1997. Dr. Ciresi has been specializing in chiropractic wellness care for 15 years now. Always having had a passion for prevention and health working as a group fitness instructor and personal trainer throughout college, she didn't find chiropractic so much as she feels it found her.
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Old Gym
Angela Loomis
Ms. Loomis is a Regional Technical Manager for Solutionary, a Managed Security Services company based in Omaha, Nebraska. Her current role is as a pre-sales engineer for the full breadth of information security services. She supports a US sales team and primarily support the Eastern Team. Before joining Solutionary a year ago, she worked for an Israeli-based security company, and prior to that for Dell SecureWorks for over 8 years. Her career path has taken me from working as a Technical Director for the news at WJAR to a career change just when the tech bubble "burst" in 2000, to my current role in a company focused on information technology security for businesses. Ms. Loomis started out in college as a theater major, and ended up getting a liberal arts degree in Mass Communications.
Laurie Broman
Dr. Broman is a Medical Scientist with a major biotechnology company, GIlead Sciences. She has a Doctor of Pharmacy degree. Her job focuses on the research and development of novel medical therapies for Cardiovascular disease. Dr. Broman was the recipient of the 2012 Alvan Fischer Award, Gilead’s highest award in Medical Affairs. The award is granted to individuals who exemplify Gilead's core values of Integrity, Accountability, Excellence and Teamwork.
Jonathan Alberts
Mr. Alberts graduated in 1979 with a Bachelors of Science in Marine Navigation and a US Coast Guard Unlimited Third Mates License. He worked on oceanographic ships for many years and obtained a Coast Guard Master’s license which allowed him to sail as captain of ships in all the world’s oceans, including the Arctic and Antarctic. In 1995, Mr. Alberts completed his Master of Science degree in Environmental Science from Antioch University in Keene, New Hampshire. After twenty-five years of working at sea, Mr. Alberts became a project manager for world-wide oceanographic expeditions and this work continues now in his position at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography.
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