Andrew is the Associate Director of Legal Corporate at the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Prior to joining ASCAP, Andrew was an Entertainment Associate at Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP. After graduating from law school, Andrew worked as an Employment and Employee Benefits Associate at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. He attended the Fordham University School of Law where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. Andrew earned his undergraduate degree from Brown University. Recently, Andrew was named the New York State Bar Assocation’s 2009 Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year.
Wynne is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Wynne was an Associate in the Miami office of Hunton & Williams LLP. Wynne joined Hunton after clerking for Judge K. Michael Moore, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida. Wynne graduated from Fordham Law in 2005. At Fordham, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham International Law Journal and Associate Editor of the Fordham Moot Court Board. Wynne was also a Highbridge Fellow and worked with Legal Services of New York in the South Bronx representing low income clients in various administrative proceedings.
Prior to attending law school, Wynne was a certified teacher at Milton High School in Alpharetta, Georgia where he taught English and coached football and baseball. Wynne received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University.
Wynne met Dave Nee on the first day of law school and shared countless conversations with Dave on important topics like international law, foreign policy, and the National League East Division.
Anne has been a corporate associate at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, specializing in the practice area of Mergers & Acquisitions, since graduating from Fordham Law School in 2005. While a student at Fordham, Anne was an Editor of the Fordham Moot Court Board and represented Fordham in the J. Braxton Craven Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition earning the position of semi-finalist. Prior to attending law school, Anne was an associate at the strategic communications firm of Robinson, Lerer & Montgomery in New York. Anne earned her B.A. in English from Boston College and graduated with honors. Anne was elected to the Board in January 2010.
Anne had the privilege of meeting Dave in her first year at Fordham Law School and the honor of counting him among her friends for those three years. She is still in awe of Dave’s intelligence, warmth and unparalleled sense of humor.
Anne-Marie is a Vice President in the Financial Sponsors investment banking group at Credit Suisse. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Anne-Marie was a Vice President in the Leveraged Finance investment banking group at Lehman Brothers where she focused on corporate financing transactions, leveraged buy-outs and also M&A advisory. Previously, she was a Vice President at Deutsche Bank within both the Leveraged Finance and Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging investment banking groups.
Anne-Marie began her career as a financial analyst at Bear Stearns within the Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging investment banking group. Anne-Marie graduated from Columbia Business School in 2000 with a concentration in real estate finance and attended both Trinity College and Harvard University as an undergraduate. She holds both a series 7 and series 63 registration.
Anne-Marie has been a volunteer in the fundraising division of the New York Junior League since 2004 and received her certification in Nonprofit Board Membership from the Nonprofit Boards Clearinghouse (a division of the NYJL) in the fall of 2009. Anne-Marie has been a member of the Student Sponsor Partners Leadership Committee since 2006. She was co-chair of the inaugural Back-to-School Benefit in 2008 and was also co-chair of the 2009 Back-to-School Benefit.
Amy’s professional background includes residential and commercial real estate sales and leasing, consumer product marketing and strategic management consulting. Presently, she represents residential clients in Greenwich and New York through her real estate brokerage firm, East Valley Group. Prior to this, Amy worked with Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. for over five years specializing in office tenant representation in Midtown Manhattan.
After graduating from Princeton University in 1998, Amy joined the Kalchas Group, a business strategy consulting practice of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Amy continued her management consulting career in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she was a founding member of Meridian Global Solutions until returning to New York City to serve as a Marketing Director for Kiehl’s Since 1851, a L’Oreal company where she was responsible for the development and marketing of the direct-to-consumer internet division.
Amy had the privilege of meeting Dave through the Ivy Club at Princeton and enjoyed sitting through many lectures with him for their shared major in Politics and Economics. Amy counted Dave as one of her closest friends and his impact on her life is incalculable. Amy served as a Dave Nee Foundation Gala Co-Chairperson in both 2009 and 2010. She was elected to the Board of Directors in January 2010. Amy lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with her husband, Charles Balducci, and two children, Sofia and Luke.
Director, James Hyre, Esq.
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James joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in 2008 as an Associate in the US Corporate group. He currently works in Freshfields' Hong Kong office. Prior to Freshfields, James worked in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP where he was an Associate in the Corporate group. James has been on the board of the Foundation since 2006. He studied History at New York University and Law at Fordham University, where he was a member of the Fordham Law Review.
Matthew is currently a Senior Product Manager and Associate General Counsel at RocketLawyer.com, the only website where consumers and businesses can find comprehensive affordable and accessible solutions for their legal needs.
Matthew has been on the board of the Foundation since 2006 along with the fellow founding board members. Matthew received the Empire State Counsel Award in 2006 for his dedication to pro bono legal assistance and his work with Sanctuary for Families. Matthew has worked in the Asset Management Division of Goldman Sachs and prior to that as an Associate in the New York office of O’Melveny & Myers where he co-chaired the Pro Bono Advisory Committee.
Matthew graduated from Fordham University School of Law in 2005 where he received the Phillip R. Fusco Memorial Award. At Fordham, Matthew was Associate Editor of the Fordham Moot Court Board and served on the Fordham Urban Law Journal. Matthew earned his B.A. in psychology from the University of Virginia. Matthew had the privilege of meeting Dave his first year at Fordham. He had the good fortune to get to know Dave over the course of the next few years through insightful conversations that at times were intellectually engaging, and at others, painfully hilarious.
Alexandra joined the Board in 2007, and serves on the Events and Grants sub-committees. Currently, Ms. Nee is a consultant with McKinsey & Co. Prior to McKinsey, Ms. Nee worked in the tech and non-profit fields. She is the first Washington, D.C. Site Director for StreetWise Partners, a non-profit organization with a mission to build mentoring relationships between low-income individuals and volunteer business professionals to develop workplace skills and employment networks as the bridge to a successful career. In this role, Ms. Nee led the nonprofit’s corporate relations, fundraising, and program operations and expansion in the region. In addition, Alexandra developed the nonprofit’s outcomes surveys and reporting for both the New York and Washington DC offices. Alex comes to the Dave Nee Foundation after graduating with high honors in Religion from Princeton University, an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and professional experience starting successful non-profit ventures.
Dave Nee was Alexandra’s wonderful older brother, and her commitment to the Foundation is motivated both by indelible impact of his life on hers, and the mission of the organization to eradicate the stigma of depression and create a world where no one struggles alone in silence.
When not chasing after her two young daughters and newborn son, Claire is pursuing a Ph.D. in American History from Yale University, where she also received an M.A. in Political Science in 2001. Claire graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1996, and spent two years working in New York with the District Attorney’s office in Manhattan, the Bar Association of the City of New York, and the Century Foundation, a public policy think tank before returning to graduate school.
Since beginning work on her dissertation, entitled “Blood Lines: Racial Formation and Contests for Citizenship in America, 1877-1924,” Claire has taught classes in American history, African American history, and U.S. Foreign Relations at Yale University, Wesleyan University, and the University of New Hampshire. Her work has won awards from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York, the American Philosophical Society Library, the U.S. Department of Education (Jacob K. Javits Fellowship), and Yale University (the Robert M. Leylan Fellowship in the Humanities and the Sterling Prize Fellowship).
Dave, Claire’s much-beloved younger brother, could nevertheless argue her into frustrated silence on topics of American history and U.S. Foreign Relations.
Claire lives in Concord, Massachusetts with her husband, Joshua Nelson, and their three children.
Erica is an Associate at Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer P.C. Prior to joining Morvillo Abramowitz, Erica served as a Law Clerk to the Hon. Peter K. Leisure, United States District Judge in the Southern District of New York. She also spent two years as an Associate in the Litigation Department at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Erica graduated magna cum laude from Fordham University School of Law in 2005, and was selected as a member of the Order of the Coif. She served as a Notes & Articles Editor on the Fordham Law Review and published a Note entitled Inside the Lines: Basing Negligence Liability in Sports for Safety-Based Rule Violations on the Level of Play, 72 Fordham L. Rev. 2631 (2004). Erica served as an Associate Editor of the Fordham Moot Court Board. She was a Mulligan Moot Court Competition Finalist and winner of the Best Brief Prize. She also earned the Fordham Law School Prize in 2003. Erica graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College in 2002. She majored in American Civilization, with a concentration in American Politics, and a minor in Political Science.
During her first year at Fordham Law, Erica had the good fortune of being placed in the same section as Dave Nee, who consistently challenged and entertained her and the rest of their classmates. For the last two years of law school, Erica and Dave also served on the Moot Court Board together.
Former Director, David Stoner, Esq.
David Stoner, Esq. July 15, 1978 – December 4, 2010
The Board of Directors of the Dave Nee Foundation wish to express our profound sadness at the loss of our Vice President, Board Member, founder, and friend David Stoner, who passed away suddenly while out with friends on Saturday, December 4, 2010. David valued family and friendship above all else, and his devotion to those he loved exemplified many of the Dave Nee Foundation’s most fundamental beliefs: that no one needs to feel alone, that we must care for one another, and that through true friendship and stewardship we can overcome anything, even the disease of depression.
The Dave Nee Foundation was started by close friends, including David, who came together hoping to fill a void in our community. Thus, our Board Members are not strangers who converse only at Board meetings; most of us see and talk to each other many times a week on issues wholly unrelated to this organization. David was not just the Foundation’s Vice-President, but also our head chef, master party planner, leading authority on everything from sports trivia to how to tie a bow tie, and — most importantly — our dear friend.
The Dave Nee Foundation has named an award in David Stoner’s memory. The David S. Stoner Uncommon Counselor Award is given to a member of the legal profession who exhibits extraordinary compassion and concern for his co-workers, family, friends, and community. The Award is named in memory of David S. Stoner, a founding Director and Vice President of the Dave Nee Foundation from 2006 to 2010. David Stoner, a close friend of Dave Nee, valued family and friendship above all else, and his devotion to those he loved was unparalleled. David's respect and compassion for others was unmatched and his life was a shining example of many of the Foundation’s most fundamental beliefs: that no one needs to feel alone, that we must care for one another, and that through true friendship and stewardship we can overcome anything, even the disease of depression.
A separate website has been set up to collect photos and memories of David Stoner. Please visit by clicking here.
Below is an unedited interview of David Stoner taped in the Summer of 2009 for the Dave Nee Foundation Tribute Video. We thank him for his many years of dedicated service to the Dave Nee Foundation and we will never forget our dear friend, “Stoner.”
David Stoner Talks about Dave Nee and the Foundation’s Mission
Annie is currently completing her Masters in Professional Education at Manhattanville College, working to receive a dual certification in General and Special Education, grade K to 5. She graduated from Iona College in 2007 with a Bachelors in Social Work and continued her social work education receiving a Masters in Social Work at Fordham University in 2008.
Community service and volunteering have always been important to Annie. She started Iona College's AFSP chapter and led the college's first efforts to address student depression and suicide. She organized fundraisers both at Iona and in Westchester to fund AFSP's education programs. She has also volunteered for two summers at Camp Viva, an organization that provides respite to HIV/AIDS patients and their children.
Annie is a lifelong friend of the Nee family. Some of her first memories are of playing board games with Dave's sister Alex, while Dave supervised and dispensed his legendary advice on strategy.
When not in school, Annie can be found walking her Shih Tzu, Teddy, on the streets of Greenwich, CT, where they live.
Anne-Marie is a Vice President in the Financial Sponsors investment banking group at Credit Suisse. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Anne-Marie was a Vice President in the Leveraged Finance investment banking group at Lehman Brothers where she focused on corporate financing transactions, leveraged buy-outs and also M&A advisory. Previously, she was a Vice President at Deutsche Bank within both the Leveraged Finance and Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging investment banking groups.
Anne-Marie began her career as a financial analyst at Bear Stearns within the Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging investment banking group. Anne-Marie graduated from Columbia Business School in 2000 with a concentration in real estate finance and attended both Trinity College and Harvard University as an undergraduate. She holds both a series 7 and series 63 registration.
Anne-Marie has been a volunteer in the fundraising division of the New York Junior League since 2004 and received her certification in Nonprofit Board Membership from the Nonprofit Boards Clearinghouse (a division of the NYJL) in the fall of 2009. Anne-Marie has been a member of the Student Sponsor Partners Leadership Committee since 2006. She was co-chair of the inaugural Back-to-School Benefit in 2008 and was also co-chair of the 2009 Back-to-School Benefit.
Anne has been a corporate associate at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, specializing in the practice area of Mergers & Acquisitions, since graduating from Fordham Law School in 2005. While a student at Fordham, Anne was an Editor of the Fordham Moot Court Board and represented Fordham in the J. Braxton Craven Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition earning the position of semi-finalist. Prior to attending law school, Anne was an associate at the strategic communications firm of Robinson, Lerer & Montgomery in New York. Anne earned her B.A. in English from Boston College and graduated with honors. Anne was elected to the Board in January 2010.
Anne had the privilege of meeting Dave in her first year at Fordham Law School and the honor of counting him among her friends for those three years. She is still in awe of Dave’s intelligence, warmth and unparalleled sense of humor.
Annie is currently completing her Masters in Professional Education at Manhattanville College, working to receive a dual certification in General and Special Education, grade K to 5. She graduated from Iona College in 2007 with a Bachelors in Social Work and continued her social work education receiving a Masters in Social Work at Fordham University in 2008.
Community service and volunteering have always been important to Annie. She started Iona College's AFSP chapter and led the college's first efforts to address student depression and suicide. She organized fundraisers both at Iona and in Westchester to fund AFSP's education programs. She has also volunteered for two summers at Camp Viva, an organization that provides respite to HIV/AIDS patients and their children.
Annie is a lifelong friend of the Nee family. Some of her first memories are of playing board games with Dave's sister Alex, while Dave supervised and dispensed his legendary advice on strategy.
When not in school, Annie can be found walking her Shih Tzu, Teddy, on the streets of Greenwich, CT, where they live.
The Board of Directors of The Dave Nee Foundation is pleased to announce that Stephanie Arcella has joined the organization as its Development Consultant. With Stephanie’s guidance, the Foundation plans to grow its supporter and partnership base to deepen the impact of its programming, Uncommon Counsel, which works to raise awareness about depression and prevent suicide in the legal community, and is the only program of its type in the nation. Stephanie will also oversee the Foundation’s grant administration, which supports organizations devoted to preventing suicide amongst adolescents and young adults.
Andrew Sparkler, the President of the Dave Nee Foundation said that “the addition of Stephanie is, without a doubt, one of the proudest moments in the history of our organization. Her passion, experience and demeanor are an ideal fit for us and we are truly honored to have her on board.”
Stephanie brings 10 years of fundraising and social service experience to the position, including counseling within a mental health agency in the Bronx, Morris Heights Health Center, and fundraising and development work within Sakhi for South Asian Women, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, and the professional fundraising groups, Lawson Associates and Wolfe Consulting. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Pennsylvania State University and a Master in Social Work degree from Fordham University at Lincoln Center.
Wynne Kelly, Vice President of the Dave Nee Foundation, stated, “Stephanie’s extensive work in the not-for-profit community, her professional and academic experience with mental health issues, and her charisma make her perfectly-suited for the Dave Nee Foundation. We are truly blessed to have a professional of Stephanie’s caliber lead us into the next stage of development of the organization.”
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Andrew Sparkler, Esq.
Wynne Kelly, Esq.
Anne Buckman, Esq.
Anne-Marie Peterson
Amy Marisa Balducci
Matthew J. Kaufman, Esq.
Alexandra Nee
Claire Nee Nelson
Erica K. Sparkler
David Stoner, Esq.
Annie Farrenkopf