The Metrics for Success Task Force

The Metrics for Success Task Force has developed a measurement system for the regional community that collects, analyzes and shares data on a range of social indicators that will provide evidence of progress, status quo, or backsliding with respect to the Tech Valley Futures vision.

Co-Conveners:

  • Rocco Ferraro - Executive Director, Capital District Regional Planning Commission
  • Denise Sheehan - Eastern Regional Director, The Climate Registry

Participants:

  • Dominick Calsolaro - Common Council Member - First Ward City of Albany, Albany Common Council, City of Albany
  • Kathleen Cloutier - Executive Director, Albany Community Action Partnership
  • Edward Cupoli - Head, Nanoeconomics Constellation; Professor of Nanoeconomics, College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering, Ualbany
  • Albert DeSalvo - Community Reinvestment Officer, M & T Bank
  • Steve Feeney - County Planner, Schenectady County Department of Economic Development and Planning / Town of Guilderland Planning Board Chair
  • Reverend Joyce Hartwell - Justice and Re-Entry Chair, ARISE
  • Catherine Hedgeman - Attorney at Law, Law Office of Catherine M. Hedgeman, Past Chair and Founder of GenNext
  • Doug Kallenburg - Board Member, Capital District Community Loan Fund
  • Jason Kemper - Director of Planning, Saratoga County 
  • Lawrence Knapek - Certified Public Accountant, Knapek, Gabriele & Bottini, LLP
  • David Lewis - Assistant Professor, University at Albany
  • Katherine Pelham - Chief Executive Officer, United Way of the Greater Capital Region
  • Eric Peterson - Community Volunteer
  • Raymond Schimmer - Executive Director, Parsons Child & Family Center
  • Paula Dalotto Simpson - President, Dot2Dot People / Youth and Education Chair, ARISE
  • Deb Stacey - Senior Transportation Planner, Capital District Transportation Committee
  • Elizabeth Staubach - Economic Development Planner, Albany County
  • Lava Thimmayya - Director for Economic Development, Workforce Development Institute
  • Linda von der Heide - Principal Planner, Rensselaer County Economic Development & Planning 
  • Arnie Will - NYS Empire State Development