Mr. David B. Cornstein
David B. Cornstein has been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation. Mr. Cornstein was previously appointed as the Chair of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation in 1994 by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Mr. Cornstein has dedicated himself to public service as a member of the Board of the Jacob Javits Development Corporation and as a member of the Board of the Battery Park City Authority. In 2002, Mr. Cornstein was appointed by former Governor George E. Pataki as the Chairman of the New York State Olympic Games Commission, spearheading the effort to have New York City selected as a candidate city for the 2012 summer Olympic Games. Mr. Cornstein served as the Vice Chairman of the Economic Development Corporation of New York City and the New York State Council on State Productivity.

Mr. Cornstein brings years of experience in the private sector. He served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Finlay Enterprises, a nationwide leased fine jewelry company based in Manhattan with annual sales of over $1 billion. He now serves as Chairman Emeritus to Finlay and is President of Pinnacle Advisors Ltd., a consulting and advisory firm. Mr. ornstein serves on the boards of several organizations including New York Law School, the Jewish Community Relations Council, Park East Synagogue and the David and Sheila Cornstein Foundation. Mr. Cornstein is the Chairman of the World Presidents’ Organization.

Mr. Cornstein received his Bachelor of Arts from Lafayette College and received his MBA from New York University.

Mr. Anthony Bergamo
Professional Experience
Mr. Bergamo has broad experience as a CEO, Operating Officer and Director of public and private companies. He also has a proud history of public service as an Independent Fiduciary for the Federal District Court, as a Commissioner of the New York State Commission for Sentencing Reform, as a member of the New York State Judicial Screening Committee, First Department, as a member of the board of directors of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation and as the Founder and Chairman of the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation.

Mr. Bergamo is Vice Chairman of MB Real Estate. It is a national full-service company engaged in the leasing, sales, investment and management of commercial and residential real estate. The two primary offices are in New York and Chicago. Mr. Bergamo also serves as Chief Executive Officer of Niagara Falls Redevelopment, LLC, a partnership that controls 160 prime acres with over $1 billion in planned redevelopment in downtown Niagara Falls, NY, and also operates the Niagara Falls Airport.

He was previously the Managing Director of the Milstein Hotel Group, consisting of three properties: The Milford Plaza, the 1,300 room “Lullabuy of Broadway” located in Times Square (sold in 2003); The Bristol Plaza, a Five Star suites hotel located on Manhattan’s “Gold Coast” at 65th and 3rd Ave. and The Liberty Plaza, a residential suites hotel located in Battery Park City.

Mr. Bergamo was the past President and Chief Operating Officer of the Custom Shop Shirtmaker a manufacturer and retailer of high quality men’s fashion, which they owned and operated 85 retail locations throughout the country. He was also responsible for all real estate acquisitions, the operation and sale of shopping malls, and the purchase and sale of office buildings and residential properties. Some of the companies he completed major sales and exchanges were Bell South, Motorola, Goodyear, American Express, Citibank, Proctor & Gamble, Sears, and Duracell.

Mr. Bergamo previously served as Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President of Greyhound Exhibit Group and Greyhound Exposition Services, the world’s largest Tradeshow and Convention Company, with over 2,000 employees. While working as Vice President of Operations of Greyhound Support Services, he managed projects in the U.S., England, Greece, France, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.


Public Board Experience
Additionally, Mr. Bergamo is a Director of Dime Community Bancorp, a publicly traded bank with $3.8 billion in assets. He has been a Director since 1995 and a Trustee since 1986. He is Chairman of the Audit Committee and is a member of the Executive, Nominating Committees and Community Reinvestment Committees. He previously served on the Mortgage and Planning Committees.

He recently joined SP Acquisition Holdings, Inc. as the Audit Chairman, and serves on the Governance and Nominating Committee. This $425 million company is publicly traded. It was started and is managed by Steel Partners in New York.

Mr. Bergamo served as a Director from 2002 to 2006 for Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon, headquartered in Wichita, KS. He served as the Chair of the Audit Committee. This company owns and operates a chain of approximately 250 restaurants, including six Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak Houses and 15 Sullivan’s Steakhouses. Revenues for this company were approximately $650 million. The company was acquired in 2006 and was taken private.


Government Service
Governor Paterson appointed him as a board member of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation in August 2008 for a six-year term. OTB has revenues in excess of $1 billion. They operate 55 betting parlors, three teletheaters, a telephone betting room and eight restaurant/bar locations. They have approximately 1350 employees.

He was appointed a member of the New York State Judicial Screening Committee, First Department in January 2008. His responsibility is to identify, interview and recommend appropriate candidates for judicial appointments in Manhattan and the Bronx.

Mr. Bergamo was appointed in May 2007 as a Commissioner for New York State Commission for Sentencing Reform. The purpose is to review the current sentencing statutes, identify problems, analyze the effect on the probation, parole and prison systems, and to propose any appropriate modifications in a written report to be issued by December 2008.

Mr. Bergamo served as an Independent Fiduciary in a major Federal ERISA and union fraud case under the Hon. Louis J. Freeh, the Hon. Michael B. Mukasey, and the Hon. Milton J. Pollack in the Federal District Court, Southern District. The matter was Consolidated Local 867. He was responsible for all investigations, identifying and attaching assets, and reconciliations of approximately 30,000 claims and disbursement of funds. He interfaced with both the US Attorneys’ Office and the Department of Labor. He served from 1991 to 1996.


Philanthropy
In addition to his many business activities, Mr. Bergamo is Founder and Chairman of the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation. Established in 1988, this qualified charitable Foundation was originally formed to provide financial support to the families of law enforcement officers killed in action, and those agents and their families suffering from serious illness or recovering from natural disasters. The Foundation has raised millions of dollars to fund numerous programs including: Fed Kids Daycare; Inner-City Drug Reduction; FBI Summer Camp for Inner-City Youths; NYPD Vest Fund; CEO Day; PBA Widows and Children Fund; DEA Widows and Children Fund; PAL Financial Assistance; Foreign law enforcement programs; a substantial Scholarship Program; and Heroes’ Night.


Personal

He earned a BS in history from Temple University, and a JD from New York Law School. He is admitted to the New York, New Jersey, Federal Bars, US Court of Appeals and the US Supreme Court.

A dedicated family man; he was born and raised in New York City.

Mr. Steven Newman
Steven Newman is Vice President for Finance/Chief Operating Officer of Public Health Solutions, a $200+ million not-for-profit, public health organization. Public Health Solutions delivers direct health services such as prenatal care, family planning, WIC, and Early Intervention Service Coordination to low income women, infants and young children, as well as manages large public health programs (Ryan White HIV, HIV Prevention, Family Planning) through contracts with hospitals and community-based organizations. Through direct services and contracts, Public Health Solutions helps over 200,000 people per year. Additionally, Public Health Solutions handles administrative services (budgeting, grant administration, contracting, purchasing, and recruitment) for the City’s public health preparedness program.

Previously, Mr. Newman was the First Deputy Comptroller of New York City, where he oversaw audits, engineering, pension fund investments, financing of City debt, budget analysis, policy analysis, accounting, and management and accounting systems. Mr. Newman also represented the Comptroller on the City Audit Committee. Prior to that he had been Chief of Staff to the Comptroller, where he was responsible for policy, intergovernmental, and community relations; was the Office’s lead staff member in the negotiation of the City’s budget; and the initiator of new functions in the office, including performance audit and pension policy, among others.

Between stints in the Comptroller’s Office, Mr. Newman was the Chief Management and Financial Officer for the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA), at that time the country’s largest resettlement agency. NYANA resettled upwards of 20,000 people per year in the New York City metropolitan area.

As a young engineer, Mr. Newman worked for Grumman Aviation as a project engineer on the propulsion system for the Lunar Module. Mr. Newman has both an M.B.A. and a Masters in Engineering from New York University.

Mr. Newman is the Chair of CB 11 (the Northeast Queens Community Board), a government organization that advises the City on budget, zoning, and service delivery matters; a member the NYS Franchise Oversight Board (appointed by the Assembly); a member (appointed by the NYS Assembly) of the Board of the Public Asset Fund, the State body that manages and sells the shares that resulted from the conversion of Blue Cross to a for-profit organization; and a member of the Board of the Council of Senior Centers and Services.

Steve Newman was appointed by the Mayor to be a member of the 2003 Charter Revision Commission. Previously, he was Chair of the Board of Social Accountability International, an organization that establishes workplace standards around the world and monitors to ensure compliance. He was a member of the National Governing Council of the American Jewish Congress, Vice President for Finance of the Board of the Jamaica Services Programs for Older Adults, the Commissioner of The Little Neck-Douglaston-Bay Village Little League for a half dozen years, and was a manager in that League for over twenty years, and appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly to be a member of the NYS Advisory Council for Municipal Lobbying.

Steve and his wife Rosemary live in Douglas Manor. Steve has lived in Queens since 1952, when his family moved to Glen Oaks. Between them, Steve and Rosemary have five children, all of whom attended public schools. They have five grandchildren. Three of the children and two of the grandchildren live in New York City, and the other children and grandchildren reside in the Washington, DC metro area.

LAWRENCE F. GRAHAM
Executive Vice President
Brookfield Properties Corporation
A distinguished real estate professional with more than 25 years of experience in both the public and private sectors, Lawrence Graham is Executive Vice President of Brookfield Properties. Amongst his current responsibilities is the repositioning of the World Financial Center, an eight million square foot complex in lower Manhattan. Previously, he developed and managed a pipeline new projects in the U.S. and Canada. Five of these projects totaling 3.5 million square feet were completed as of 2009. The two largest projects are the 1.2 million square foot Bay Adelaide Centre in Toronto and the 1.1 million square foot 300 Madison in NYC.

As Senior Vice President for Operations from 1996 to 2002 he was responsible for the operations and management of the company’s U.S. office building portfolio of 18 million square feet. After the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, Mr. Graham organized and supervised the $140 million restoration of the company’s buildings, including the World Financial Center and its Winter Garden and received the 2002 Building Trades Employers’ Assn. Leadership Award.

Mr. Graham joined Brookfield’s predecessor, Olympia & York, in 1989 and played a significant role in its restructuring efforts from 1991 to 1996.

Prior to joining Olympia & York, he served as a consultant and financial advisor to numerous companies and organizations including: Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), The Trump Organization, Shearson, Drexel Burnham, Ryland Group, FDIC and Claridge Properties, among others.

Earlier in his career, he served with the New York State Urban Development Corporation (UDC) and BPCA, as Chief Financial Officer of both organizations from 1978 to 1982, and as the first President of the Times Square Redevelopment Corporation under UDC from 1982 to 1984.

After graduating from Princeton University in 1968, he held positions at F.I. du Pont & Co. and Chemical Bank.

Mr. Graham currently serves on the boards of the Alliance for Downtown New York, the Bowery Residents Committee, the Community Environmental Center, the New York Building Congress and the NYC Off Track Betting Corp..

Mr. Graham is married and has three grown sons.

Brookfield Properties owns, develops and manages premier office properties in major U.S. and Canadian cities. The portfolio is comprised of interests in 108 properties totaling 75 million square feet in the downtown cores of New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Houston, Toronto, Calgary and Ottawa. Landmark assets include the World Financial Center in Manhattan, Brookfield Place in Toronto, Bank of America Plaza in Los Angeles and Bankers Hall in Calgary. The company’s common shares trade on the NYSE and TSX under the symbol BPO.