Board & Advisory Council

issues and has been recognized as a New York Metro Region Super Lawyer and by Chambers. He has written a book on biotechnology and nanotechnology published by Oxford University Press and Lexus/Nexus. He served on Summit Common Council – including two years as Council President– as well as on the Planning Board and Environmental Commission in Summit. David graduated from Vassar College, Cornell University and Georgetown Law School. He is the President of The Summit Conservancy and serves on the Reeves-Reed Arboretum Board. He has lived in Summit for 20 years with his wife, Andrea, and two sons.

Realtors Chairman of the Board Club and has achieved dozens of performance awards throughout his career. Born in Morristown and a lifelong resident of Morris County, Ryan is deeply involved in his community, serving on several boards and committees including Morristown Partnership, Washington Association of New Jersey, The Morristown Club (current Vice President), Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Morris County, and more. In 2023, Ryan served as the Grand Marshall of the Morris County St. Patrick’s Day Parade, where he had been a board member for the 10 previous years. Ryan enjoys gardening/Koin pond, genealogy, and RVing with his wife and dogs.

Seligman & Co. He sits on several boards including Emma Willard School, Charles & Marjorie Holloway Foundation, Presbyterian Church of Chatham Twp., and the Morristown Club. Ian and his wife reside in New Vernon.

A graduate of Cook College, Rutgers University (now known as the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences) Susan’s personal passions include the environment and animals. She is a member of the North American Butterfly Association and the Native Plant Society of NJ and is knowledgeable about and planting vegetables and native flowers, using organic growing methods for the health of her family and the environment. Susan also volunteers with her husband, Scott, at the Mount Pleasant Animal Shelter fostering special needs cats and kittens. As a personal creative outlet, Susan is a knitter and handweaver, and a member of the Jockey Hollow Weavers guild. She has several looms and enjoys the practice and creativity of weaving.

structured finance lawyers and currently serves as the global leader of the structured transaction group at Morgan Lewis in New York City. Reed represents a broad range of financial institutions, investment funds, and issuers in the development of innovative structured finance vehicles, as well as in the acquisition and disposition of financial assets and origination and servicing platforms. He advises underwriters and issuers in connection with public and private offerings of asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities involving a wide variety of assets, collateralized loan obligations and related interim warehouse financings, asset-backed commercial paper conduits, whole loan purchases, repurchase agreements, derivative transactions and residual financings.

Reed sits on the board of the Structured Finance Industry Group (SFIG) and the editorial board of The Journal of Structured Finance. He also co-authored the industry’s primary treatise, Offerings of Asset-Backed Securities (Wolters Kluwer Publishers). Reed was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at Columbia Law School, editor for The Journal of Transactional Law, and received a Certificate with honors from the Parker School of International and Comparative Law. He was also named an International Fellow at Columbia University’s School of International Affairs.

impacting many parts of New Jersey. He has worked professionally or as a volunteer in New Jersey conservation for 17 years with The Nature Conservancy, New Jersey Audubon, the League of Conservation Voters, Friends of the Drew Forest, the Great Swamp Watershed Association, and other groups. For several years, he played a key support role in the NJ Keep It Green Coalition for open space, farmland and historic preservation.  He is a member of the NJ Highlands Council, has chaired Chatham Township’s Open Space Committee for 14 years, helping to preserve 250 acres in that time, and has been an active leader in Scouting America for 10 years. Joe has worked in financial markets in New York and New Jersey for 25 years, often bringing together people with diverse perspectives to achieve each party’s goals. He lives in Chatham Township, NJ and has a B.A. from Cornell University and an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business.

Her involvement with GSWA began at her childrens’ school where she organized the watershed demonstration for third graders. She also initiated GSWA’s successful native plant sale and has assisted since its inception in 2021. Lydia served on the Chatham Township Planning Board and Open Space Committee for over a decade. In conjunction with the Environmental Commission, she led several environmental campaigns that were later used as models for communities around NJ. In 2008, Lydia co-founded a social business called Back2Tap working with schools, non-profits, and corporations nation-wide to raise awareness about bottled water and promoting reusable bottles. With a BA in Earth Science from Dartmouth College and an MS in Geological Sciences from the University of Colorado, Lydia worked in the oil industry for 9 years as a geological engineer and hydrogeologist.

build-to-suit, corporate dispositions (i.e. subleases, sales, sale-leasebacks), and corporate real estate portfolio strategy and consulting. Josh is an integral member of an 8-person team that is one of the most active and high performing in all of Cushman & Wakefield focused on corporate occupier representation across portfolios: locally, nationally, and globally. The team is responsible for managing for than 68 million square feet currently and collectively have been responsible for more than 1,400 leases/sales in excess of 18.7 million square feet with an aggregate transaction value of more than $1.7 billion. Josh serves as the team’s lead for New Jersey corporate occupier representation and handling New Jersey based client portfolios locally, nationally, and globally.

Recent significant assignments include representing longtime client Regeneron in its 127,000 SF major regional lease at 300 Warren Corporate Center (the largest office lease in the I-78 corridor in 2024); Representing Bayer and Tiffany in their historical lease of more than 113,000 SF at 100 Bayer Boulevard; Deloitte in moving its Parsippany operation into a 110,000 SF build to suit to anchor M Station East in downtown Morristown’s historic redevelopment on Morris Street (re-branded as M Station) as well as representing Prism Capital Partners in the long-term Headquarters lease to Eisai Pharmaceuticals for 332,818 SF for the entire 200 Metro Boulevard. Mr. Cohen has also developed a niche in representing law firms and serves as C&W’s Legal Sector Advisory Group lead for New Jersey. Mr. Cohen was involved in 6 out of the 7 major law firm transactions in the New Jersey market in 2024.

Josh Cohen received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In 2014, Mr. Cohen received his Graduate Certificate in Real Estate from NYU’s Schack Institute. Mr. Cohen has previously volunteered locally for the Morristown Community Soup Kitchen and served on the United Way’s Commercial Real Estate Committee. In addition, Josh serves currently on the Mendham Township Sewer Advisory Committee. Outside of work, Josh loves spending time with his wife and two young kids and is an avid marathon runner having completed five New York City and Philadelphia Marathons collectively.

as Board Chair 2014-2015, and as Vice Chair in 2012, 2013, 2018, and 2019. Michael is a Vice President of Smarties Candy Company, his family’s business now run by the next generation. He cut his activist teeth and breathed a lot of teargas with Peace marches and precursors of BLM Marches in the 60’s and 70’s. He continues to passionately support important causes like GSWA. He is a strong proponent of eradicating invasive plants and landscaping with natives, principles he demonstrates on his own properties. Michael earned his Bachelor of Arts from Yale College, as well as a Master of Letters and Doctor of Letters from Drew University. He is very active with a wide variety of environmental, animal rights, and other non-profit groups, from Trustees of Reservations to Mercy for Animals. He also serves on the Board of the Ethos Farm Project, a regenerative organic farm in Long Valley in Long Valley, NJ. Michael and his wife Marilyn (also a Board member) now split residence between homes in Harding Township and Stockbridge, MA. They enjoy their play time with daughters and grandchildren, as well as gardening. Michael is also an avid adult hockey player.

opportunity for a career in covert operations for the CIA for a career in the performing arts, a lifelong passion, based in NYC. Carolyn and her husband, Brian, moved their young family to Chatham in 2001 where she currently works teaching music and Spanish. She has been very active volunteering in Chatham through the public schools in various roles, and in her church, serving as Assistant Minister, and being elected to serve two terms on the church council. She was later elected to two terms on the Chatham Borough Council, then elected Mayor in 2023, and currently serves in that capacity. Two of her most rewarding efforts on Borough Council are co-founding the Chatham Community Food Distribution in April 2020 which still serves 50-60 families weekly, and her work on the Passaic Riverside Trail, which she is working on expanding and enhancing. She looks forward to serving the GSWA, and expanding their reach and environmental missions all along the Passaic and beyond.

Wade was officially hired by GSWA as Director of Development. Upon his retirement in December 2025, Wade re-joined the board to continue to work closely with the organization. Wade’s background is in show business where he spent 14 years in New York City working as an actor, stage manager and producer. After they welcomed triplet boys in 1998, he and his wife, Linda, moved to Morristown. Wade has since worked in development positions for the State Theatre of New Jersey, Paper Mill Playhouse, Nederlander Presentations, the Morris Museum, and the Morris County Chamber of Commerce. He is currently working for the Guilford Foundation, is a trustee of the Kirby Episcopal House, and serves on the Board of Governors of the Morristown Club.

beauty of Europe, Canada and now the United States, she realizes that one of the key ways she can give back is by working with organizations to preserve the authenticity and pureness of earth’s natural resources. Kristina has held executive roles in Sales, Category Management, and Human Resources, and is looking forward to using that experience to broaden the mission and contribute to the success of GSWA. Kristina lives in Chatham with her husband and two college-aged children.

He has expertise in the collection and archiving of accurate climatic data and is interested in climate change (particularly state and regional climate issues), global snow cover dynamics, and interactions of snow cover with other climate elements. As state climatologist, he works with a wide array of user communities who require climatological expertise to solve problems.  Dave has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, is past president of the American Association of State Climatologists, has received the Lifetime Achievement award of the American Association of Geographers, and is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

from the University of Rochester, an M.S. in mathematics from Yale, and additional training in computer science at NYU. For 40 years before retiring in 2000 she was a computer systems consultant at Bell Labs and for 20 years she was chair of the Chatham Township Environmental Commission. For many summers, she worked in the nature program of the Silver Bay YMCA on Lake George, New York.

distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence, and data- driven applications. Prior to this, Brett worked as an Executive Director at Wells Fargo where he managed the risk associated with Wells Fargo’s M&A, divestiture, and strategic investment activity. He holds a Master of Arts in International Business and Policy from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Finance from Ramapo College of New Jersey. Brett resides with his wife Stephanie and two children in Pinehurst, NC.