Americares humanitarian mission to kosovo; American Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta; Columbus Citizens Foundation; University Club; New York Friars Club; Westchester Country Club; Economic Club of New York; Commercial Finance Association; Alumni Association of CCNY; Financemen's Club of New York; New York City Board of Education Audit Advisory Committee; Board of Directors, Catholic Youth Organization; humanitarian mission to Honduras with the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta; invited by the Secretary of the Air Force to become a U.S. Navy "tailhooker" during Fleet Week, spent 30 hours on board the USS John F. Kennedy of Norfolk, Virginia; Alumni Association of CCNY; Federal Reserve Bank of New York Nominating Committee; United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York; Development Corporation for Israel Bonds; former member of Mayor Dinkins' New York City Council of Economic Advisors; Saint Joseph's Finance and Administration Committee; Board of Trustees, The American University of Rome: Cardinal's Committee of the Laity; Yonkers Community Relations Board; serving meals and distributing clothing to the homeless and others in need of Meals on Wheels (Westchester, NY); Dutch Reformed Church (Westchester, NY); the Boy Scouts of America; American Management Decision Laboratory; and Director of Long Island University's "The Business Game" graduate program; Fashion Institute of Technology - Consiglio d'Instituto of Polimoda - Florence, Italy; served as "Principal for a Day" at alma mater, William Howard Taft High School (Bronx, NY)

AWARDS - Gates of Jerusalem Medal from State of Israel Bonds; Financial World Magazine Bronze Award "Top Chief Executive Officer"; Anti-Defamation League's "Human Relations Award", Coalition of Italo-American Associations, Inc. "Leadership in Banking Award", 1998 Ellis Island Medal of Honor; Education Alumni Group's "1999 Business Educator of the Year"; Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center "Partnership Award"; United Cerebral Palsy "Man of the Year"; Ohel Children's Home & Family Services "Man of the Year"; Calvary Hospital's "The Calvary Medal" and Boys' Towns of Italy "Man of the Year".