Diane Ciesla, Actor

Off-Broadway: Great Expectations (Lucille Lortel), Mamillius (La MaMa), No Time for Comedy (The Mint), and Macbeth, Cinderella (Playhouse 91).

Other New York credits include deathvariations (59 E 59), Night Sings Its Songs (Culture Project), Cannibal's Waltz (Abingdon), Clubbed Thumb and New Dramatists.

Regional: The Importance of Being Earnest (New Harmony), The Bird Sanctuary (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Public), String of Pearls (Playmakers Rep), Gigi, Carousel (North Shore Music Theatre), Mount Allegro, A Christmas Carol (GeVa Theatre), Oliver! (Kansas City Starlight/Muny), The Hostage (BoarsHead), Mrs Warren's Profession, The Taming of the Shrew (International Theatre Festival-Staller Centre for the Arts), The Cemetery Club, Broadway Bound (Jupiter Theatre), Cheap Sunglasses (McCarter Theatre), Splitting Infinity (Brand: New Hartford Stage), and the tour of Lost in Yonkers. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ciesla has worked at the Goodman Theatre, Pheasant Run Theatre, Illinois Theatre Center, and Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks. Television & Film: "Law & Order", "All My Children", "Guiding Light", Under New Management.

Ms. Ciesla has been on the theatre faculty of New York University's Steinhardt School/ Department of Music and Performing Arts, the Neighborhood Playhouse Junior School and a Guest Artist/ Teacher at University of Findlay and the University of Rochester. She has taught at the 92nd Street Y (Young People's Musical Theater Workshop) and was Coordinator and Acting Instructor of the Theatre Program Center School, P.S. 199 and Assistant Director and Acting Coach at the First All Children's Theatre Company.

Clay Deutsch, McKinsey & Company

Clayton Deutsch is a Director in McKinsey's Northeast Office (Boston, New York), with a focus on serving financial institutions.

He is one of the founders and leaders of McKinsey's North American Banking and Securities practice. He is currently the leader of McKinsey's Global Merger Management practice. He is also a member of the Firm's Shareholders Council, the Firm's Knowledge Committee, and chairs the Professional Standards Committee.

In his 25 years with McKinsey, Mr. Deutsch has worked with a variety of leading financial services clients on issues of strategy, organization, and operations, with a particular focus on corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and top management organization. He has led our work with a number of banks, insurers, securities firms, asset managers, private equity firms, and specialty finance companies. He has been a frequent speaker at Securities Industry Association and Financial Services Roundtable conferences, and has led a number of McKinsey's knowledge development efforts on various financial services topics

Active in community service, Mr. Deutsch is a member of the Executive Committee of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago; the Executive Committee of the Financial Research Advisory Council; the Courageous Foundation; and the Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. In addition, he has directed a number of pro bono assignments for public sector organizations.

Mr. Deutsch holds a master's degree in Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University, and a degree in Economics from Brown University.

 Renee Rodriguez, Curious Frog Theatre Company

Executive Director of Curious Frog Theatre Company, yet another step forward in a journey of acting, directing and producing for Reneé that stretches back over a decade. Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, she started in the performing world as a runway model. Moving from there to commercial acting, her interest then expanded into all areas of the theatrical arts.

Reneé's acting experience encompasses plays in Los Angeles, Idaho, Chicago, Indiana, North Carolina, and San Francisco, where she earned nominations for two of her favorite roles, Vera in Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians and Elvira in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit.

She is also an award-winning director, with critical acclaim for her production of Don't Dress for Dinner at the Chanticleers Theatre in Castro Valley, earning several prestigious awards including Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Production. She apprenticed with Robert Hamm and assisted in directing Marvin's Room at Ross Valley Players in Marin and Our Town at the Altarena Playhouse in Alameda, and also directed the critically-acclaimed Turn of the Screw in Alameda. Her most recent productions were our inaugural production of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors last fall and McGurk's Suicide Hall, an original work written by Josh Rozett, staged by the ReddMask Theatre Company here in New York City in the spring of 2007. While in San Francisco, she helped start the Act Now! Theatre Company, and helped rebuild and market CTA Crossroads Theatre. Both theatres are thriving today with full seasons and subscription rates.

Reneé earned her MFA in Acting at Indiana University, where she focused not just on the program and its mandates, but produced and directed plays, and privately coached, and taught both privately and academically at the university level.

Joseph L. Rosenberg, CPA

Joseph L. Rosenberg is the Owner of Joseph L Rosenberg CPA, a certified public accounting firm established in 1983. Mr. Rosenberg is also a Consultant for the NJ Small Business Development Centers where he mentors owners of small and start-up businesses, lectures on best accounting practices, business planning, tax, and record-keeping.

Mr. Rosenberg is a certified public accountant in both New Jersey and New York and a member of the American Institute of CPAS, certified QuickBooks advisor, and 1996 Accountant Advocate of the Year for U.S. Small Business Administration.

Active in community affairs, Mr. Rosenberg is the President of the Livingston Library Endowment Fund, Treasurer of the Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce and Treasurer of the Jewish Historical Society of Metrowest.

Mr. Rosenberg received his B.S at New York University’s Stern School.