Committee Assignments: Security (Chair), Governance and Ethics (Vice-Chair), Finance
Committee Assignments: Finance, Capital Planning, Execution and Asset Management, Security
Committee Assignments: Audit, Finance (Vice Chair)
William “Pat” Schuber was nominated to the Board of Commissioners by Gov. Chris Christie and joined the board on July 1, 2011. Schuber served as the county executive of Bergen County for 12 years, nine years as a member of the New Jersey state Assembly and mayor of the borough of Bogota for four years. He is currently an associate professor at the School of Administrative Science, Petrocelli College, Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is a faculty member in the Master of Administrative Science, Master of Science in Homeland Security, Master of Sports Administration and Bachelor of Arts in Individualized Studies. He has written several scholarly articles and co-authored books on topics of history, leadership and homeland security. Schuber served as a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Raymond Pocino was nominated to the Board of Commissioners by New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey and joined the board on June 26, 2002. For more than 50 years, Pocino has been a member of the Laborers’ International Union of North America. He was appointed regional manager of LIUNA’s Eastern Region Office in April 1995 and later won election as a LIUNA vice president in September 1996. He is also president emeritus of Construction & General Laborers Local 172 in Trenton. Pocino is serving his fifth term as a commissioner of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, one term as chairman. Pocino also serves as vice president of the New Jersey State AFL-CIO, vice chair of Choose New Jersey, and serves as a trustee of both the NJ Alliance for Action and New Jersey SEED.
Jeffrey H. Lynford was appointed to the Board of Commissioners in June 2011 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and reappointed in 2013. Lynford, currently serves as president and CEO of Educational Housing Services Inc., the leading nonprofit New York City organization that provides safe and affordable housing for college students and interns since 1987. He was the co-founder of the Wellsford group of public and private real estate companies. Over an 18-year period he served as the chairman of three exchange-listed corporations: Wellsford Residential Property Trust, Wellsford Real Properties Inc., and Reis Inc. Previously, he held senior investment banking positions on Wall Street. Lynford has served as a trustee/director on the boards of SEC, reporting corporations and mutual funds as well as nonprofit organizations.
WILLIAM “PAT” SCHUBER
Committee Assignments: Operations
health, pension, annuity and vacation benefits to more than 15,000 union members and their families and 7,000 retirees. In addition to his duties with the carpenters union, he is chairman of the New Jersey Alliance for Action, a 700-member labor, business and governmental coalition which seeks to resolve infrastructure issues affecting the quality of life in New Jersey. Laufenberg also currently serves on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, the Institute for Nursing, the Board of Trustees of the Independent College Fund and as vice-chairman of the Empire State Carpenters Funds Board of Trustees.
RAYMOND M. POCINO
Committee Assignments: Finance, Governance and Ethics
Blackstone’s Management and Executive Committees and sits on the firm’s investment committees. Prior to joining Blackstone, James was chairman of global investment banking and private equity at Credit Suisse First Boston and a member of the Executive Board. Prior to the acquisition of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette by Credit Suisse First Boston in 2000, James was the chairman of DLJ’s Banking Group, responsible for all the firm’s investment banking and merchant banking activities.
JEFFREY H. LYNFORD
Committee Assignments: Capital Planning, Execution and Asset Management, Security
Vornado Realty Trust. Prior to joining Vornado, he was a partner at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Currently, he is a trustee of Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust, as well as a board member at Child Mind Institute, Real Estate Board of New York, Rockefeller University and Urban Land Institute.
Committee Assignments: Audit (Chair), Operations, Capital Planning, Execution and Asset Management
David S. Steiner was nominated to the Board of Commissioners by Gov. Jim McGreevey and joined the board on Jan. 22, 2003. Steiner is currently the chairman of Steiner Equities Group LLC, a real estate development firm specializing in industrial office parks and commercial facilities in New Jersey and 14 other states and based in Roseland, New Jersey. Steiner recently built Steiner Studios, an unprecedented 280,000-square-foot, $118 million state-ofthe-art film and television production facility, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Previously, he served as vice president of the Washington Institute for Far East Policy.
DAVID S. STEINER
Committee Assignments: Governance and Ethics (Chair), Finance, Operations
Cushman & Wakefield. From 1982 to 1985, he served as New York City deputy mayor under Mayor Ed Koch. Previously, he was a general partner and managing director at Salomon Brothers and a General Partner at Lehman Brothers. Lipper serves on the board of directors of Case New Holland (CNH) Global NV. He is chairman of the Board of Lippmann Enterprises LLC, a cosmetics company, and on the Advisory Board of Group FMG, a software company.