Bio:
Catherine Milone - President - Junior Achievement of
New Jersey, Inc.
Catherine has 29 years of business experience
in the corporate and nonprofit sectors. Prior to JA New
Jersey, Catherine worked at ADP and had also served as VP
Marketing for JA New York, where she began her post college
career. In 2004, Catherine was named President of JA New
Jersey, where she is charged to manage statewide operations
that impact 75,000 students throughout NJ annually.
In her tenure, Catherine and her team have turned JANJ into
a thriving, fiscally-responsible NGO, and were awarded their
fifth JA USA Peak Performance Team Award in 2019 for
superior performance. Catherine and Team received the
Charles R. Hook Award in 2014, JA USA’s most prestigious
honor recognizing an area president and staff whose
outstanding performance contributed to the growth and
development of the organization.
Catherine serves as an Independent Director for the
KearnyBank Foundation, and is one of ten nationally selected
presidents entrusted to the JA USA HR Committee. Catherine
was appointed to the NJ State Employment and Training
Commission (SETC) in 2016, and is Chair of their Youth
Vision Council. Most recently, Catherine was elected to the
Board of Trustees for the NJ Business and Industry
Association (NJBIA) and Treasurer for Focus NJ Foundation –
The Center for Economic Research and Workforce Solutions.
Acknowledgements include YWCA Princeton Tribute to Women
Award; NJBIZ Best 50 Women in Business; South Jersey Biz
Magazine’s 25 Women to Watch; NJBIA Leonard C. Johnson
Award; Muriel Siebert Financial Literacy Partnership Award
(NJCFE); Cristo Rey Newark High School President’s Award;
and is a graduate of Lead New Jersey, Class of 2011.
Catherine earned her B.S. in Business and Marketing at Utica
College of Syracuse University. Formerly of Rockville Centre
(Long Island, NY), Catherine resides in historic Mill Hill,
a community of Trenton, NJ.
Bio:
Tom Brown is an agile project leader helping
non-profit organizations with data analytics, CRM, and
business process improvement. He is a certified Scrum
Master and Scrum Product Owner.
Tom has used agile project techniques since the late 1990s
when at Bristol Myers Squibb he and his team independently
invented some of today’s scrum practices. These include
daily standups, the roll of scrum masters and product
owners, continuous integration, web based project management
tools, and repeated use of customer surveys to inform
project status.
During his career, Tom has made several career transitions,
facilitated by taking time out to do Pro Bono and volunteer
projects for non-profit and community organizations.
As a result of these short term assignments, he has had
opportunities to work with organizations like Liberty
Science Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), McCarter
Theater, and many others. Tom would like you to
consider what good you can do for yourself and the world by
taking time out to volunteer.
His bachelor’s degree is from Ithaca College with studies at
the intersection of art and technology, and his Masters is
from Syracuse University in Information Resources
Management.
Please feel free to reach out to Tom at tom@41xRT.com