OUR BOARD

           As always: with much gratitude. shs

JOHN BLOSSER
Recipient of: (1) the National Child Support Enforcement Association Program Awareness Award; (2) Recipient of Western Interstate Child Support Enforcement Council Award for "Deadbeat Dads" series, l995; (3) Association of Children for the Enforcement of Support Golden Heart Annual Awards, l992-95;
---Pulitzer nominee for "Deadbeat Dads" program, 1995;
---featured in "Make The Jerk Pay," by Louis Rose and Roy Malone, copyright 1999, Albion Press, St. Louis, Mo.
---Creator and operator of the Enquirer’s award-winning “Deadbeat Dads” program.


CYNTHIA CHILLEMI, MCSE
Director of IT for a 40 year old manufacturers' representative company across three states and Puerto Rico, IT consultant, network engineer and website designer, Cynthia is also a proud parent and a proud foster parent. Cynthia's children are two of the many to experience hunger and struggle from unpaid child support.

Currently, she is assisting in an event fund-raiser for "Operation Smile". Other affiliations include: Women in Distress, Kids in Distress, Cystic Fibrosis, The Susan G. Komen Foundation and Kars for Kids.


BOB SINGER
After his position as a Vice President for Snelling International, Bob served as a consultant to staffing firms on how to improve profits through technology. Bob has managed and motivated large workforces for several companies, including Vice President of Marketing for Sharp Electronics and Panasonic, effecting sales across the entire country. He also started two very successful folk/acoustic music house concert series: The Singer House Concert Series has been used as a nation-wide example on promotion of successful concert series, and Singer Music Productions caters to the nostalgia, excitement and diversity of 60's and 70's music, featuring such acts as The Chad Mitchell Trio, Michael Johnson (Bluer Than Blue), and the Limeliters.


PAUL VIGNEAUX, CPA
A Certified Public Accountant with 25 years experience in corporate finance, internal audit, and public accounting, Paul is highly proficient in operations accounting in for- and not-for-profit organizations, serving most recently as Chief Financial Officer for a Pharmaceutical Marketing Company and for a Florida state-wide Engineering Services Firm. Paul is also recipient of the Presidential Service Medal for honorary service in the White House. He brings personal experience of the injustices of the system of child support post-divorce from 16 years of non-custodial parenting.


SHAUNA SWEENEY, YOUTH REPRESENTATIVE:
The daughter of SupportKidsNOW President Susan Sweeney, Shauna is now aged 24, and a marketing professional. From her eight years experience as a "victim" and as the oldest child of a single parent of three struggling without, then underpayment of, child support, Shauna is firmly committed to the belief that modern society needs to encourage the unity of the working family. Shauna offers the Board the invaluable viewpoint of the "child" struggling in an unpaid/underpaid family.



ADVISORS

FORREST BLEDSOE, MBA
Principal of several successful businesses over 35 years of specialization in the health care industry, and proud parent, Forrest's proudest accomplishment is his formation of the Alumni Association for "Up With People".
JPL Financial Enterprises, Inc. Plantation, FL

JOHN BROWN
Adjunct Professor at Florida International University and semi-retired as a partner in a 30-year old Broward County engineering firm whose Projects List includes the New Home and Training Facility of the Miami Dolphins and Blockbuster's Entertainment's 11-story highrise, John also formerly served as Director of Technology for Broward Community College.
John Brown, Professional Engineer, Fort Lauderdale, FL

With thanks to Susan's brother, mother and two sisters, to Don and Marcella, John and Barbara, and Pat, the lady in the gas station who gave travelling strangers coffee and hot dogs.  And my friend Ellen Bukstel and her wonderful song - Change the World.