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Who's Who at PortSide NewYork

Carolina Salguero, Founder and Director. She began life in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn and spent her teen years in New England, often on the coast.  She graduated magna cum laude from Yale with two majors (Art and
American Studies). The social policy studies from the latter informed her journalism and ultimately PortSide.  she worked around the world as a freelance documentary photographer and writer from the opening of the Berlin Wall through 9/11 where she arrived at ground zero by boat.  She has been researching, documenting, boating and advocating on behalf of New York City's waterfront for since 1998.  In 2002, she completed a 2 1/2 year project on NYC tugboats for National Geographic which introduced her to the port.  In 2003, she launched waterfrontmatters.org, the first interactive community board website in NYC for Brooklyn Community Board 6. The site covered the "Piers 6-12 Study" and issues pertaining city plans for the Red Hook Containerport from 2003 until 2005.  Salguero has a "six pack" (six passenger) captain's license from the Coast Guard and offers harbor tours on her 26' powerboat.  Her uncle Ross Gannon, a builder of wooden boats, co-founded the renowned shipyard Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway. Her brother Antonio Salguero has worked as a commercial fisherman in Alaska and is a boat designer and builder near Seattle. (Photo: Stefan Falke)

Elaine Carmichael, the principal of Economic Stewardship, Inc., is PortSide NewYork’s urban planner.  She is a national leader in land-use planning and regional economic analysis with a focus on tourism development and community revitalization.  She has planned waterfronts nationwide, created many museums, attractions, and tourism programs.  She has also planned for governmental agencies in New York City.  Her work is heralded for being site-specific and responsive to community needs and character.  She brings interdisciplinary gifts to the table and creates innovative, evocative projects.  She doesn’t apply formulas or just rely on throwing lots of money at a situation.  She does revitalization with soul.  She has extensive experience in areas that are blighted, challenged or dubbed outright problems--as was our Red Hook not so long ago..

Tim Ventimiglia, , a graduate of Cornell University, a museum planner and exhibition designer is advising on Portside's planning and programming efforts.  He is a project director and associate with Ralph Appelbaum Associates Inc, the largest interpretive museum design firm in the world. He has led a wide variety of projects involving interpretive master planning, research and educational program development, cultural planning, architectural and exhibit design. He is a long time Brooklyn resident and for the last five years has been a faculty member at the Parsons School of Design where he recently held a graduate seminar to explore ways of transforming the ship Mary A. Whalen into a floating platform for Portside's educational programs. 

Dan Goncharoff is a consultant on financial exchanges and risk. He grew up in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and attended Stuyvesant High School and Yale. He worked for Goldman Sachs for 13 years, where he developed their first risk monitoring process, and became the youngest VP in the firm‘s history.  He ended up in Europe, where he stayed for most of the next two decades, living in London, England and Frankfurt, Germany, two cities with identities closely tied to their river locations. His consulting work for Deutsche Boerse, the largest exchange company in the world, has taken him to locations such as Paris, Madrid and Dubai.  Dan is working on PortSide event planning and organizing our fundraiser.

 John Weaver began his career on stage, first as performer then in production, in theatre and television. From staff Director at WABC-TV he turned to producing and directing commercials for twenty five years, becoming a Senior Vice President at Young and Rubicam. John's father in law was captain of the Mary Whalen for twenty years.  Turning from the commercial world, John has made the ship the focus of his creative energies. He uses his background to develop performance events, edit video, and carve tanker Jack-O-lanterns; and he works with PortSide's volunteer program and leads tours of the ship. He brings a unique personal history to the story of the Mary Whalen.

Hillary Hughes, legal counsel, of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, a national law firm with over 700 attorneys and other professionals in nine U.S. offices and a global reach throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Canada, serves as outside general counsel to PortSide.

Yolanda Rother is an intern at PortSide NewYork. She is a resident of Berlin, Germany and graduated from Berlin’s John F. Kennedy School which teaches German-American bilingual and bicultural education.  Her prior work includes supervising the Dom Perignon Lounge in the Club Felix in Berlin’s five star Hotel Adlon.  She has done promotional work for entertainment and special events at the promotion company Nachtagenten which promotes nightlife, music festivals throughout Germany & Ibiza, and for Afrika! Afrika! an African circus, and Qatar German Open, a women’s tennis tournament in existence since 1896.  She is working on plans for our fundraiser. 

The Flotsam Project
This will be the first youth program at PortSide NewYork.  It will clean Red Hook’s two beaches of flotsam and make benches from the collected pilings. These benches will be placed in public locations in Red Hook.  The program will teach carpentry skills, community service, ecological stewardship via collaboration with the Army Corps and DEP. We are seeking a shop space ashore to launch this program.

Partners

Once we are on Pier 11 with our first publicly accessible pier location, we will team up with the Pegasus and the Waterfront Museum Barge to create youth programs, deckhand training, and exhibits and cultural events and move them around the harbor. 

Participation concluded with the Business Plan:

Adriana Cutolo-Beyer, of Mindjog Communications, created PortSide NewYork’s logo and identity kit.  She has won awards for websites, logos, and identity creation.  She has designed innovatively for photographers, architects, and book publishers.  She created Carolina Salguero’s current identity kit, logo and website. 

Capt. Kris Lindberg worked on maritime outreach and research during the creation of the business plan. He has hands-on experience in maritime operations and in planning. He has 100 ton master’s and 150 ton mate’s licenses.  Originally from Seattle, he has worked on vessels for ten years including tugs, cruise ships, power yachts, sailboats and dinner boats.  He worked as a mate on tug and barge runs from Seattle to Alaska and as an emergency spill responder for three years.  May 2005, he graduated from NYU with a masters degree in planning with a specialty in transportation and environmental planning. 

Nevin Gussack, is a Librarian at Broward Community College/North Regional Library in Florida.  He provides web-based research for PortSide NewYork.  He has worked for two years with Carolina Salguero on www.waterfrontmatters.org  researching media stores and data in public domain archives and uploading this information to the website. PortSide NewYork’s own website will replicate many of the sections on www.waterfrontmatters.org  and ultimately replace that site, a task for which Nevin is perfectly prepared.  

Terrence McCarthy, business analyst, worked on the financial side of PortSide NewYork’s business plan.  He has provided management consulting services for over twenty years to clients including Fortune 500 companies, financial and technology leaders, and government agencies. He co-founded Neoteric, a pioneer in communications and risk management consulting.  He is known for his out-of-the-box thinking, pragmatic problem-solving skills, financial analysis and research and has been a featured speaker at conferences on three continents.  As a long-term Brooklyn Heights resident, he is intimately familiar with the streets and businesses in the PortSide area. He is a musician and connoisseur of the arts with a collection of vintage guitar amplifiers and 7,000 compact disks, and as such is a rich source of ideas for PortSide NewYork’s cultural programming.

Warren Winter, Director of Sales at WorldPictureNews, advised on creation of the general waterfront image archive, maritime 9/11 archive and construct the print sales marketing plan.  He is a photo production whiz and a national leader in negotiating licensing agreements with newspapers—expected to be a major source of PortSide NewYork’s image bank. He has working relationships with newspaper editors around the country and is a proficient photo researcher.  He has developed e-commerce photo websites and been a sales rep for both spot news and feature photography.