HERBERT K. AMES

 

Ames founded First Choice Bank and serves as the President/CEO of Devin Group, Inc., based in Hamilton, New Jersey, a company that specializes in new business development, government relations and contracts, urban planning and economic development, and nonprofit management. Prior to founding Devin Group, Inc., Ames served as the Director, Division of Economic Development for the County of Mercer, responsible for new and existing business growth, relocation, and development. For ten years prior, Ames served as the Corporate Vice President of Yardville Supply Company, a building material company. Ames also serves on the Board of Directors of various nonprofit organizations. Herb Ames can be contacted at hames@devingroupinc.net.

 

OANA NECHITA

 

Ms. Nechita is the founder of Bucks Biographer, LLC, a personal biography service dedicated to recording and preserving the history of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  Ms. Nechita’s poetry, memoirs, essays, and articles have been published worldwide. In the United States, they appear in the Bucks County Writers’ Magazine, Water Stone Literary Review, TMP Irregular, Yale University Women’s Literary Magazine, and Journal of the Academy of General Dentistry. Currently, she is working on a book-length memoir commemorating her Romanian legacy, “Experiments with Truth.”  More information at www.BucksBiographer.com