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Current PortSide Team
Carolina Salguero, Director, 917-414-0565, portsidenewyork (at) gmail.com
Dan Goncharoff, Program Development, Fundraising, 732-610-9023, thegonch (at) gmail.com
John Weaver, Stage Manager, Video production, (917) 685-1166, wudchpr (at) gmail.com
Amy Bucciferro, Communications, Design, Shipwork, 202-365-6538,
Diane Cho, Intern, (917) 379-4101, research (dot) portsidenewyork (at) gmail.com
Dave Sheahan, IT Coordinator, 917-826-8455
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Legal Counsel


Additional Board Members & Advisors
Elaine Carmichael, Urban Planner
Capt. Seth Goodwin, NYC Parks Department Dockmaster
Capt. Pam Hepburn, Tug Pegasus Preservation Project
Clare Miflin, Architect
Brian McCormick, Co-Founder, Brooklyn Greenway
David Sharps, Waterfront Museum Barge
Jeanne-Marie Van Hemmen, Betancourt, Van Hemmen, Greco & Kenyon
Carlos Tejada, Architect
Tim Ventimiglia, Museum Advisor
Domenic Venuto, ReBranding, Razorfish (now Vivaki)
Michael Wellington, Goldman Sachs

Bios

Carolina Salguero, Founder and Director. She began life in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn and spent her teen years in New England, often on the coast.  She graduated magna cum laude from Yale with two majors (Art and American Studies). The social policy studies from the latter informed her journalism and ultimately PortSide.  she worked around the world as a freelance documentary photographer and writer from the opening of the Berlin Wall through 9/11 where she arrived at ground zero by boat.  She has been researching, documenting, boating and advocating on behalf of New York City's waterfront since 1998.  In 2002, she completed a two and a half year project on NYC tugboats for National Geographic which introduced her to the port.  In 2003, she launched waterfrontmatters.org, the first interactive community board website in NYC for Brooklyn Community Board 6. The site covered the "Piers 6-12 Study" and issues pertaining city plans for the Red Hook Containerport from 2003 until 2005.  Salguero has a "six pack" (six passenger) captain's license from the Coast Guard and offers harbor tours on her 26' powerboat.  She supervised the haul-out of the Mary A. Whalen winter 2007 during which the hull was blasted and painted, repairs were made to the bottom plate, and two spudwells were installed.  Her uncle Ross Gannon, a builder of wooden boats, co-founded the renowned shipyard Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway. Her brother Antonio Salguero has worked as a commercial fisherman in Alaska and is a boat designer and builder near Seattle. (Photo: Stefan Falke)

Elaine Carmichael, the principal of Economic Stewardship, Inc., is PortSide NewYork’s urban planner.  She is a national leader in land-use planning and regional economic analysis with a focus on tourism development and community revitalization.  She has planned waterfronts nationwide, created many museums, attractions, and tourism programs.  She has also planned for governmental agencies in New York City.  Her work is heralded for being site-specific and responsive to community needs and character.  She brings interdisciplinary gifts to the table and creates innovative, evocative projects.  She doesn’t apply formulas or just rely on throwing lots of money at a situation.  She does revitalization with soul.  She has extensive experience in areas that are blighted, challenged or dubbed outright problems--as was our Red Hook not so long ago..

Tim Ventimiglia, , a graduate of Cornell University, a museum planner and exhibition designer is advising on Portside's museum planning and programming efforts.  He is a project director and associate with Ralph Appelbaum Associates Inc, the largest interpretive museum design firm in the world. He is working independently of RAA with PortSide.  He has led a wide variety of projects involving interpretive master planning, research and educational program development, cultural planning, architectural and exhibit design. He is a long time Brooklyn resident and for the last five years has been a faculty member at the Parsons School of Design where he recently held a graduate seminar to explore ways of transforming the interior of the Mary A. Whalen into exhibit spaces and floating platform for Portside's educational programs. 

Dan Goncharoff is a consultant on financial exchanges and risk. He grew up in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and attended Stuyvesant High School and Yale. He worked for Goldman Sachs for 13 years, where he developed their first risk monitoring process, and became the youngest VP in the firm‘s history.  He ended up in Europe, where he stayed for most of the next two decades, living in London, England and Frankfurt, Germany, two cities with identities closely tied to their river locations. His consulting work for Deutsche Boerse, the largest exchange company in the world, has taken him to locations such as Paris, Madrid and Dubai.  Dan is working on PortSide event planning and funding research and serves as Pursar.

 John Weaver began his career on stage, first as performer then in production, in theatre and television. From staff Director at WABC-TV he turned to producing and directing commercials for twenty five years, becoming a Senior Vice President at Young and Rubicam. John's father in law was captain of the Mary Whalen for twenty years.  Turning from the commercial world, John has made the ship the focus of his creative energies. He uses his background to develop performance events, edit video, and carve tanker Jack-O-lanterns; and he works with PortSide's volunteer program and leads tours of the ship. He brings a unique personal history to the story of the Mary Whalen.

Amy Bucciferro defines the PortSide house style of "omnicompetent." Amy has split her career in the publishing and not-for profit industries. She has managed production for print publications and now coordinating email marketing products BizBash Media. She has worked and currently works with several non-profit organizations, notably development consulting on the pilot New York Museum of Water project and supervising the 2009 Maritime Adventure Program run by the Tug Pegasus Preservation Project on the Lilac Preservation Project. At PortSide, Amy currently does program and event coordination, writing, editing, design, and supervises shipwork volunteers.

Diane Cho is a rising sophmore from Princeton and our summer intern. She will likely major in architecture. She approached PortSide with an email expressing interest and concern about how historic ports were being replaced and rising seawater issues. 

Dave Sheahan, IT coordinator, has tackled head-on the technological communication challenges of having an office on a seventy-two year old former oil tanker. Dave has delivered wired and WiFi Internet to all the cabins and galley and has beamed high speed Internet from a house outside the Red Hook Marine Terminal (thank you Liz and Rafi Magnes). In addition, Dave has helped to secure donations from local and national companies to improve PortSide's technology infrastructure. He is working with PortSide's sponsors and technology companies to bring the Mary A. Whalen into the twenty-first century.

Dana Kochnower is a freelance video journalist who lives in Brooklyn.  She started her career in local news at WPIX-TV, spending time at CNN before launching the online video departments at SmartMoney.com and FOXBusiness.com.  A student of Conservation and Environmental Sustainability at Columbia University's Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Dana came to Portside New York with an interest in environmental education and re-purposing urban space.  Dana documents Portside's events, watch the videos here: BlueBQ, TankerTunes.

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, a national law firm with over 700 attorneys and other professionals in nine U.S. offices and a global reach throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Canada, serves as outside general counsel to PortSide.  Charles D. Brown, formerly of Thacher Profitt, provides counsel to PortSide on maritime matters.

Branding
PortSide is currently engaged in a rebranding project led by Domenic Venuto, Managing Director, Client Solutions, Razorfish. Domenic is working independently of Razorfish on this project.

PortSide NewYork seeks board members, advisors and members of the fundraising committee.
If you are interested, contact us at portsidenewyork (at) gmail.com.

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