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Jim Henry for Southampton Town Supervisor
James S. Henry (Harvard B.A., M.S., J.D.) is the proud father of two college-age
children, Alex and Claire -- and a successful business person, attorney, and author with an outstanding record
of professional accomplishment.
Born and raised in Minnesota, for twenty years he has also been a resident and home-owner in Sag Harbor and the
Town of Southampton, New York.
Jim prides himself on bringing a fresh, independent, "Bloomberg"-style problem-solving approach to Southampton
Town.
In recognition of his experience and solid track record of civic and business leadership, Mr. Henry has been nominated
to run for Town Supervisor by the Democratic Party and the Working Families Party for the upcoming November 2007
election.
In the 1980s and 1990s Mr. Henry served as a lawyer, Shearman & Sterling (NY); Chief Economist, McKinsey &
Company (NY); VP Strategy, IBM/Lotus Development; Manager - Business Development, on Jack Welch's staff at GE;
and senior consultant at Monitor Co., Dr. Michael Porter's strategy consulting company.
In 1992 Mr. Henry also founded Sag Harbor Group (www.sagharbor.com), a strategy consulting firm that is focused
on developing competitive strategies and business alliances for technology-based businesses. SHG has led strategy
studies for many prominent global enterprises, including AT&T, ABB, Allen & Co., Cordys, IBM/Lotus, Intel,
Interwise, AT Kearney, Cemex, ChinaTrust, GM, Merrill Lynch, the Government of Spain, South Africa Telecom, the
Rockefeller Foundation, the Swedish Power Board, TransAlta, UBS/Warburg, and Volvo.
As an entrepreneur, Mr. Henry has served as a founding partner of IVP, a Sao Paulo private equity firm that teamed
with Warburg Pincus to create the first nationwide Brazilian wireless network. He has also been a founder and board
member of Celtic Vision, a Boston-based cable TV network; Flooz.com, an e:payments company; Applied DNA, an identity
security company.
Among non-profits, Mr. Henry is a board member of Peoplink.org, which develops and hosts web catalogues for artisans
in developing countries. He has served as an advisor to Ashoka, a “reverse Peace Corps” that sponsors 1500 fellows
in 30 countries; board member of Friends World/ Global College (LI University); Co-Chair, Tax Justice Network(US),
an NGO focused on global tax policies; and a cooperating attorney and Suffolk County Board member, NY Civil Liberties
Union, specializing in First Amendment and civil rights cases.
Mr. Henry is a proud defender of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In 2006-7 Mr. Henry successfully sued
the Village of Southampton, New York, in Federal Court, to guarantee that anti-war protesters would be allowed
exercise their First Amendment rights in the Village's annual July 4th parades.
As an investigative writer, Mr. Henry has written extensively about economic issues, and pioneered investigations
of economic mismanagement, "lousy lending," corruption, and money laundering in countries all over the
globe.
Mr. Henry is the author of more than 50 articles that have appeared in such leading publications as The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The New Republic, The Washington Post, US News, Manhattan Inc., Harpers,
The Washington Monthly, Fortune, Business Week, Newsweek, Time, The Tax Lawyer, International Development Report,
Jornal do Brasil, The Manila Chronicle, La Nacion, El Financiero, and Slate.
He has been a co-author or contributor to several published anthologies, including, with Paul Starr and Ray Bonner,
Discarded Army – A Study of the Veterans Administration and Vietnam Veterans. (NY: Charterhouse, 1976); The Economics
of Strategic Planning. (Lexington, Ma.: Lexington Books, 1986); Of Bonds and Bondage – A Reader on Philippine Debt,
Emmanuel S. De Dios and Joel Rocamora (TNI, 1992); Transforming Retail Financial Services: The Impact of the Internet
on Financial Services. (NY: AT Kearney/ SHG, 1999); and "The Mythology of Debt Relief," in Steve Hiatt
and ed., A Game as Old as Empire (SF: Barrett Koehler, 2007).
Mr. Henry is the author of two seminal books on the history of Third World debt, capital flight, corruption, and
private banking -- Banqueros y Lavadolares. (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo Editores, 1996, 564 pp.); and Blood Bankers
(forward by Senator Bill Bradley) (New York: Avalon/ Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003; 2005 ppb, 452 pp.). His latest
book is Pirate Bankers (NY: forthcoming, 2008). Mr. Henry also founded www.submergingmarkets.com, an online investigative
magazine that focuses on economic and political problems. Mr. Henry has also served as an investigative producer
on several documentaries, including (1)"Land Reform in Honduras" (1984); (2)"Noriega's Panama"
(ABC News, 1991 - 1 hour); and "UnBoliviable!" (BuenaOndaFilms/ Donald Ranvaud, 2007.)
Henry’s investigations have taken him to more than 50 developing countries, including Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil,
Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Malawi, Mexico, Namibia, Panama, Paraguay,
Peru, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, the Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and many
"offshore" and "onshore" havens
The fruits of his investigations were instrumental in the 1992 trial and conviction of Panama's Manual Noriega
and his partners in the drug trade; the location and recovery of offshore assets stolen by Paraguay's General Alfredo
Stroessner; the identification of Philippines Central Bank's role in enriching Ferdinand Marcos; the disruption
of a major US cocaine smuggling ring in Brazil (Brazil's Senate established a Parliamentary Commission (CPI) in
1992-93 as a result); the detection of the role played by US currency in facilitating illegal activity; and the
identification of the role played by leading international banks in facilitating capital flight and tax evasion
in developing countries.
Mr. Henry has testified several times before the US Senate, and is a frequent speaker at public forums on development,
havens, money laundering, and tax evasion.
Mr. Henry is an honors graduate of Harvard College (BA, Social Studies; Detur Prize; Phi Beta Kappa, 1972), Harvard
Law School (J.D., honors, 1976), Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (MS, Economics, 1978; a.b.d.), a
National Merit Scholar, a Danforth Fellow, a former “Nader Raider,” and a member of the New York Bar since 1978.He
is an "Adirondack 46R." |
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Sandra L. Dunn for Southampton Town Council
Sandra Dunn, a resident of Hampton Bays since 1998, is the owner of Spanish-English Services, a business that provides
translating and writing services and language instruction to local institutions, groups, and individuals. Since
2004 she has also worked with Herstory Writers Workshops, facilitating memoir-writing groups. She is the editor
and translator of the bilingual literary magazine Latinas Write/Escriben, a mini-anthology of writing that grew out of Herstory workshops in Farmingville
and East Hampton and that was featured in Newsday in July 2006.
In 2005 she was contracted by the Department of Human Services of Southampton Town to write and translate into
Spanish Living in Southampton Town: A Guidebook for Residents of Our Community, which was published in 2006. By
conveying key provisions of town code in user-friendly language, this 40-page booklet helps residents of Southampton
navigate town government, access the services the town offers, and be responsible, law-abiding residents of the
town.
Prior to establishing her own business, for eight years Ms. Dunn had a successful career as a Spanish professor,
teaching at Bennington College, Middlebury College, and Cornell University. She also has administrative experience
in the non-profit sector. She was on the board of the community advocacy organization OLA of Eastern Long Island,
serving five months as Interim President, and was its Executive Director from December 2006 through May 2007.
She currently serves on the governing council of the Hayground School in Bridgehampton. Her other community service
work includes volunteering with Literacy Volunteers of America (now Literacy Volunteers of Suffolk) and being the
spokesperson for the Coalition for a Worklink Center.
Ms. Dunn grew up in an Air Force family in Myrtle Beach, SC and graduated cum laude from the Honors College of
the University of South Carolina before beginning graduate studies at Cornell, where she earned her Ph.D. in Spanish
literature. Her husband, Jonathan Haynes, teaches at Long Island University, and her twins, Chloë and Jesse,
are seven years old.
In May 2007, she was nominated by the Southampton Democratic Committee to run for a seat on the Southampton Town
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Anna Throne-Holst for Southampton Town Council
Anna is a Sag Harbor resident and the mother of three children. She currently
works as a consultant with her most recent assignment establishing an educational and support fund for single mothers
for The Children's Aid Society of New York
Serving as the Executive Director of the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational center from 1999 - 2004, Anna
was responsible for all areas of administration, budget planning/oversight, program development, staff development
and fundraising.
As a co-founder of the Hayground School in Bridgehampton, she worked with a core group of founders to conceptualize,
organize and implement the founding and management of this alternative elementary school.
Anna holds a Masters Degree in International Affairs and Public Administration from Columbia University and has
her BA from American University.
Anna has worked on Congressman Tim Bishop's election campaigns. |
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Andrea Schiavoni for Southampton Town Justice
Ms. Schiavoni lives in Sag Harbor with her husband, Tommy John
Schiavoni and her two children. Raised in Miami, Andrea was a life-long summer resident of Sag Harbor where she
eventually moved permanently, sunk her roots and is now raising her family.
Ms. Schiavoni began as an attorney at Albert E. Harum, Jr., P.A., a Florida worker's compensation litigation firm
established in 1966; she became president of the firm, renamed Harum & Harum, P.A., upon the death of her father
in 1997. In that capacity, she represented hundreds of clients in mediation as part of her practice. In 2001 she
changed the focus of the business to exclusively that of alternative dispute resolution as a mediator and arbitrator
with offices in Miami and Sag Harbor, New York.
Ms. Schiavoni holds licenses to practice law with the Florida Bar, the Bar of the District of Columbia and the
New York State Bar. She is a certified NASD Arbitrator and is a member of the NY State Dispute Resolution Association,
Government Affairs Committee Co-Chair; and, locally President elect, Sag Harbor Parks and Recreation Association
Board of Trustees.
Ms Schiavoni was educated at the University of Miami where she received her Bachelor of Arts Degree and Whittier
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Bruce King for Southampton Town Tax Receiver
Bruce King is a native of Hampton Bays who traces his family back to the founding of Good Ground. Bruce’s wife,
Nancy, is a Family and Consumer Science teacher at Riverhead Middle School, son, Bruce Jr., just started his freshman
year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and daughter, Julia, is a sophomore at Hampton Bays High School. Bruce
earned his
Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Arts Technology Education at SUNY Oswego, Master of Arts in Secondary
Education at Hofstra University, Professional Diploma in Educational Administration, and his Doctor of Education
in Leadership and Technology at Dowling College.
Bruce’s professional career centered on education; Bruce was a middle and high school teacher of Technology, Mathematics,
and Business subjects before becoming an administrator. After retiring from public school Bruce became an Assistant
Professor at New York Institute of Technology where taught in The School of Education and coordinated the Adolescent,
Technology, and Career & Technical Education certification
areas.
Bruce believes in returning service to his community. Bruce has been an active leader in the Boy Scouts of America
at both the local level in Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Venturing programs and at the district and council level
as a commissioner, merit badge councilor, and volunteer at winter, spring, and summer camp. Bruce also volunteered
his time and expertise to help the Hampton Bays Schools through membership and leadership of the PTA, along with
membership and chairing of district committees. Bruce has also demonstrated his commitment to helping others through
out Long Island with his commitment to Long Island Unitedway where he helps to evaluate charitable programs. Bruce
also demonstrated his commitment to continuing education and helping others through his contribution of workshops
and seminars at conferences and membership on a state advisory council. |
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Janet Beck for Southampton Town Trustee
Janet Beck is a graduate of Adelphi University (BA) and Bank Street College
Principals Institute (MS). She was a teacher and became a District Administrator for the New York City Board of
Education. She was also an adjunct instructor at Adelphi University for 15 years.
Janet continues to expand her knowledge and appreciation of our maritime environment. In over 320 years, since
the founding of the Southampton Trustees in 1686, there has never been a woman elected Trustee. She will be the
first.
Since 1958 she summered at her family home on the beach in Westhampton. Janet and her husband, Hank, have lived
here full time since 1999. She is active in the community as is a member of the CAC West, and Westhampton Chamber
of Commerce. For five years, she organized and ran three annual Art shows with more than 120 artists that helped
to fund many Chamber activities. She worked with GRIP, to help preserve the 106 Air National Guard from BRAC closure.
She supports the work of the Peconic Baykeeper, Group for the East End, is a member of the East End Women’s Network,
the Speonk-Remsenburg Association and volunteers at many Rotary events. She is on the board of the Long Island
East Ski Club and is a trip organizer. |
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Meet 2007 Candidates
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