Board of Directors

Daniel is a Vice President at Pouschine Cook Capital Management, a middle-market private equity firm.  He has served as a board director of three of Pouschine Cook’s portfolio companies – International Graphics, Great Lakes Caring and World of Tile.  Daniel was previously in the M&A Group at Jefferies and Company where he provided financial advisory to technology companies.  Prior to this position, he worked in the Supply Chain Operations Division at General Mills.  Daniel also serves on the Technical Advisory Board of Leopard Capital Haiti, a private equity firm focused on making socially impactful investments in Haiti.  Daniel graduated with a degree in Economics from Yale University.

Angus is a senior finance executive with 20 years professional experience working in international securities operations. He has worked across Asia, the US and Latin America and has extensive academic training in both Finance and Political Science (He holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics, Masters Degree in Business and a Masters Degree in International Relations).

Since 2010, Angus has worked in the Recruitment field, specializing in Financial Services personnel. Prior to this Angus’s background was in Equity Sales and management, with his most recent position in finance as a Senior Managing Director of The Macquarie Group (heading the Equity Derivatives group within the US operations). Angus was on the Board of the bank’s US subsidiary, and served on the Finance, Compliance and 401k Advisory Board committees. Angus was also part of the Macquarie Foundation’s launch in the US and an active participant in its strategic direction and volunteer activities.

Angus’s work with Career Gear started in 2009, and in addition to his role as Treasurer, he has participated in our Professional Development Series as both a presenter and a mentor.

Kristine Stallone is currently the Vice President for Finance and Administration at American Jewish World Service.  She brings her commitment to social justice and years of international experience in finance to her role. She was the former CFO of Arcus Foundation and the former controller of Americas and of Global Functional teams for Bloomberg LP, the global information service, news and media giant, where she led a team that worked on financial reporting and development of the enterprise-wide financial system. As an independent consultant to nonprofits, she served as controller for Teach for America and Ithaka Harbors, an organization working to accelerate the use of information technologies in higher education worldwide. Ms. Stallone supports and volunteers for several charitable organizations. She is a Certified Public Accountant with a BS in accounting from Mercy College, New York.

Courtney Corleto is currently an investor in and consultant to Flywheel Sports, a NY‐based fitness company. In addition to Career Gear, she is also a member of the Founders Circle of The Lynne Cohen Foundation for Ovarian Cancer Research. Previously, Courtney worked as a Relationship Manager focusing on financial data products at Thomson Reuters and as an associate at Credit Suisse First Boston in the Private Client Services Group. Courtney is a graduate of Princeton University and lives in Manhattan with her husband, David and their one year old twins.

Scott Lehmann is currently the Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships & Events for Esquire magazine, a unit of the Hearst Corporation. In this role, he is a key member of Esquire’s team that identifies, creates and implements sales and marketing programs to drive sales revenue for the magazine, Esquire.com and Esquire’s iPad applications. He has extensive experience in the development of national marketing and promotional campaigns within the fashion, retail, entertainment, liquor and grooming industries, adeptly managing strategic partnerships for highly complex marketing campaigns. Prior to Esquire, Mr. Lehmann worked at Rolling Stone magazine, a unit of Wenner Media. His first job in magazine publishing was with men’s lifestyle magazine P.O.V. Magazine (Point of View) where he was part of a team that was named Adweek’s ‘Start-Up of the Year’ and ‘Top 10 Up & Coming Magazines.’

Scott graduated from Hobart & William Smith Colleges in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Literature with a concentration on Film Studies and Film Analysis. In addition to Career Gear, Mr. Lehmann serves on the New York City ‘Young Executive Committee’ for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and currently resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife Kristen.

Bruce Pask has served as a fashion editor and stylist at notable fashion publications for almost two decades, holding fashion directorial posts at GQ and Cargo magazines. He is currently the Men’s Fashion Director of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. His extensive styling work with Annie Leibovitz included numerous celebrity covers for Vanity Fair and memorable advertising campaigns for The Sopranos.

His debut as a costume designer for the stage was for Joe Mantello’s Broadway revival of Noel Coward’s Design for Living.  He first collaborated with his twin brother in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of The Zoo Story/The Dumbwaiter.

Sean is the Executive Director of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, a not-for-profit organization that provides college education, life skills and re-entry support to incarcerated men and women.  Sean’s responsibilities include program management, business development, fundraising and implementation of the strategic goals and objectives of Hudson Link.Prior to Hudson Lin, Sean was the Director of Club Access, a psychosocial clubhouse or adults with mental health disabilities, and a tenant advocate for the James Weldon Housing Projects in East Harlem.

Sean serves as a Senior Fellow  with Mercy College’s Center for Social and Criminal Justice, on the Service Providers Advisory Committee (SPAC) which collaborates on policy issues in the NYS Department of Corrections, on the Board of Saving Our Society re-entry services organization and as a facilitator for STRIVE Fatherhood Programs.   Sean earned a Master of Professional Studies degree from the New York Theological Seminary, a Master of Social Work degree from Hunter College and is currently an MBA candidate at Mercy College.  Sean lives in Westchester with his wife, Lori.

John Saroff is Vice-President, Digital Factory and Sales Production for vente-privee USA. In this role, he is responsible for leading the creative development and physical production of each of vente-privee’s sale events.  John joined vente-privee in September 2011 as a member of the launch team.

In 2011, John was named one of the forty most influential media executives under the age of 40 by industry publication Multichannel News. He serves on the Board of Visitors of Columbia Law School, the Board of Directors of both Career Gear and the International Radio and Television Society and is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. John obtained a joint degree in Law and Business from Columbia University where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma academic honor society.  Perhaps most importantly, he is a very proud graduate of Haverford College.