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Proctors Welcomes Two Capital Region Residents to Board of Directors
Posted by Gail M. Burns - March 2010
Schenectady, NY – Proctors recently announced the election of two prominent Capital Region business professionals to its Board of Directors. Jeffrey A. Lawrence (West Sand Lake), and Paul D. Moore (Niskayuna) will join the 33-member Board of the Capital Region’s premier arts and entertainment complex, effective immediately.
Proctors Board of Directors provides wide-ranging governance over the Region’s outstanding arts and entertainment complex. The Board also supports on-going efforts to restore and preserve the beautiful Proctor’s Theatre and contributes — to the extent that resources and the Certificate of Incorporation permit – its expertise toward activities that support and enrich the quality of life in the region.
In welcoming its newest members to the Board, current Board president Richard Carlstrom said: “We are pleased to add these outstanding members of the Capital Region’s business community to the rank of our membership. Each brings innovative new skills and important contacts to Proctors. We look forward to their continued contributions to our Region and especially to Proctors as we focus on its future growth and upward trajectory.”
About Jeffrey Lawrence
Jeffrey A. Lawrence is currently Executive Vice President of Center for Economic Growth (CEG), a Capital Region economic development organization. Mr. Lawrence has been in this post for the past 16 years. During his tenure, he has provided leadership and vision in the development of business acceleration programs and outreach to startup businesses, while serving the regional manufacturing
community with technical development consulting services. He has developed a continuum model for delivery of a suite of services for technology businesses that has facilitated the success of companies, such as BullEx, Valogix, and AMRI. He has extensive experience in securing state and federal funding for economic development projects and products created at the Center for Economic Growth, most notably the Technology Roadmap, the first virtual business
community of its kind in the early 2000s, and crafted a model program and feasibility study that resulted in the creation of the Watervliet Innovation Center (WIC), a multimillion dollar accelerator for technology businesses.
Mr. Lawrence is the Director of the regional Technology Development Organization (TDO) and has secured the renewal of a five (5) year contract with New York State Technology and Research (NYSTAR) to provide services to companies to ensure their health and vitality. Under his leadership, between 2000 and 2006 the business services revenue grew over 300%. Mr. Lawrence continues to
serve as ex officio board member for the organizations CEG facilitates,
including the Chief Executives Network for Manufacturing (CEN), BioConnex, TechConnex, and also serves ex officio on the CEG Board of Directors.
In addition, Lawrence provides leadership to the many joint programs run by the Center for Economic Growth such as the Tech Valley Angels Network (TVAN) and Smart Start Venture Forum, a statewide venture event that brings investors together with qualified technology businesses. He has served on numerous community boards as well, including RPI Center for Automation and Technology Systems (CATS) Advisory Board, Empire State Venture Group Board and
Treasurer, Science and Technology Law Center Advisory Board. He also served in many capacities in Sand Lake with the Kiwanis and as a former board of education member.
Mr. Lawrence has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He lives in Sand Lake with his wife Sharon. They have two grown daughters.
About Paul D. Moore
Paul D. Moore is currently the Clarence D. Rappleyea Scholar in Residence at the Albany Law School. Prior to this appointment, he served as the Director of the Shared Municipal Services Incentive grant program’s technical assistance project at the Government Law Center of Albany Law School. He is retired from the New York State government, where he held various senior level staff positions in
both the Executive and Legislative branches of government. He has also served as an advisor and consultant to various states and federal government agencies, and authored dozens of publications and articles on issues in public finance and intergovernmental relations.
Most of his career has been spent doing strategic and tactical planning within the framework of developing new programs, evaluating existing programs, analyzing budgets and financial controls, condensing information and presenting it to decision-makers, and providing executive level leadership within organizational units he headed. Specific agencies of State government Mr. Moore worked in include the State Comptroller’s Office, Division of the Budget, State Legislature, Higher Education Services Corporation, and Office of Mental Health.
Moore is a past President of the Capital District Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and was a recipient of the Chapter’s Governor Alfred E. Smith award for “singular achievement and contribution to the public service in New York State by his major research studies in the field of local government leading to legislation on a continuing basis.”
Mr. Moore is a Fellow of the State Academy for Public Administration and served as Vice Chairman of their Board. He also served on the boards of numerous other not-for-profit corporations, and currently is a director on the board of the Retired Public Employees Association and the Government Law Center of the Albany Law School. He earned a B.S. in Business from the University of
Colorado, and an M.B.A. (Finance) from the State University of New York at Albany.
In Praise of Accomplishment
Proctors CEO Philip Morris praises the organization’s Board of Directors for its foresight and follow-through on several major initiatives that have catapulted Proctors to the forefront of arts, entertainment and education in the extended Capital Region. These include:
• Successful strategies that attracted more than 78,000 individuals who came to the month-long run of Wicked, with the goal of whetting appetites throughout the region for future blockbusters — while supporting on-going programming of excellent and varied performing arts on all three Proctors stages concurrently.
• Incorporating the local public access television station with the goal of launching public access, government and education channels with improved and expanded programming that expanded input of area youth participating in after-school video training. Next year, this same initiative will encompass state-of-the-art, in-school video support of English literacy (as a drop-out prevention program for 9th graders in the Schenectady schools).
• Hosting innumerable community events on astronomy, opera films, a successful and expanding farmers market, statewide conferences, free art nights with music and visual arts, and more.
• Recruiting new business customers to the District Heating and Cooling plant to make it run more efficiently.
“Our Board is truly awesome,” says Morris. “Its members understand what Proctors can be – and is becoming — as an arts and entertainment complex. The Board’s ability to envision collectively — and then act decisively to implement and support that vision – is invigorating and worthy of respect from everyone associated with Proctors and the extended Capital Region communities it serves.”