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ABOUT THE REAL ESTATE PRACTITIONER'S INSTITUTE |
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Charles A. Rich is Founder and President of CA Rich Consultants, Inc., a full-service Long Island groundwater and environmental consulting firm. CA Rich specializes in minimizing environmental liabilities through due diligence assessments, remediation and on-going environmental inspections, audits & maintenance. Mr. Rich's 29-year career includes water resource management, remedial investigations & risk-based cleanups, aquifer protection and redevelopment of brownfields.

Mr. Rich authors peer-reviewed papers and publishes a variety of technical articles and editorials. He co-authored the Ground Water Section of the Long Island 208 Waste Management Program for the Nassau/Suffolk Regional Planning Board which, among other achievements, classified Long Island into several important hydrogeologic zones. He delivered the Invited Keynote Address to one of the first USEPA Symposia on Aquifer Restoration and helped develop the National "Phase I" Standard Practice for Environmental Due Diligence. He was a Principal Investigator at Love Canal for the NY State Attorney General, and he recently provided Expert Testimony for the United States of America in a civil contamination case that resulted in one of the largest hazardous waste settlements in history.

Mr. Rich received his B.Sc. from Syracuse University and his M.A. from Queens College. Charles is listed in current editions of Marquis' Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. |
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BOARD MEMBERS |
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| OFFICERS |
| Chairperson |
John J. Gutleber * |
Castagna Realty |
| Vice Chair |
Charles A. Rich * |
CA Rich Consultants, Inc. |
| Secretary |
William T. Yorio * |
Corporate National Realty, Inc. |
| Treasurer |
Peter C. Puccio, CPA * |
Madison National Bank |
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| COMMITTEES |
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| DIRECTORS |
| Ira J. Adler, Esq. * |
Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP |
| Jeffrey Barber |
State Bank of Long Island |
| Peter M. Boger * |
Ridgewood Savings Bank |
| Mark Bosswick |
Berdon, LLP |
| John R. Bransfield, Jr. |
Roslyn Bancorp. Inc. |
| Frank Brocco |
Chicago Title Insurance Company |
| Mary L. Brower |
Nassau County Assessment Dept. |
| Kenneth Buck |
The Treiber Group |
| Thomas Calabrese |
Daniel Gale Agency, Inc. |
| James Carpenter |
New York Community Bank |
| John Coffey |
Madison National Bank |
| Robert T. Coughlan * |
Tritec Real Estate Company |
| Richard J. DiGeronimo |
R.D. Geronimo, Ltd. |
| Peter Elkowitz |
Long Island Housing Partnership |
| Theresa Elkowitz |
Freudenthal & Elkowitz Consulting Group |
| Donald Eversoll |
Eversoll Associates, LLC |
| Vincent J. Ferro, Esq. |
First American Title Insurance Company of NY |
| Kathleen Giamo * |
The Giamo Group |
| Vincent Giovinco |
New York Community Bank |
| Jane Greenstein |
The Inner Circle |
| Stanley Greenstein |
The Seldin Organization, Inc. |
| William Greiner |
Greiner-Maltz Real Estate |
| Robert V. Guido, Esq. * |
Charles Wang Organization |
| Daniel Gulizio |
Suffolk County Planning Dept. |
| James R. MacCrate |
MacCrate Associates |
| F. J. McCarthy * |
Site Selection Advisory Group |
| Gerard McGuirk, Esq. |
Suffolk County National Bank |
| James M. Murphy, Esq. * |
Murphy & Lynch, P.C. |
| William J.Newham III |
Bank of Smithtown |
| Jack O'Connor |
Newmark Knight Frank |
| Peter Owens |
Owens Brokerage, Ltd. |
| Leonard Primack |
Leonard Primack Assoc., Ltd. |
| John T. Proscia |
Sutton & Edwards Management, LLC |
| Henry C. Schreiber, Jr. |
Henron Development |
| Edward Smith Jr |
Coldwell Banker Commercial NRT |
| Denise M Smyth |
Bank of America |
| Stanley J. Sibell, Esq. |
Gordon, Sibell & Iannone, PC |
| Michael Harris Spector |
Spector Group |
| Barry Stein * |
Rohman Stein Associates |
| Peter Tilles |
The Tilles Investment Commpany |
| Matthew B. Whalen |
AvalonBay Communities |
| Steven M. Zarkin |
Ridgewood Savings Bank |
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| * Executive Board Member |
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