Don P. Moriarty, Jr.

on Moriarty’s advertising career spans over twenty-five years. During this time, he has worked for several of New York’s largest advertising agencies and many of the best-known advertisers in the United States. Clients with whom Don has worked include Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Miller Brewing Company, Virgin Atlantic Airways, The Trump Organization, JP Morgan/Chase, Merck, Johnnie Walker and its parent company Diageo. In 1991, Don founded his own advertising agency, Moriarty Communications. He later formed a partnership with Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group in London to form CMG Communications, an award-winning agency best known for its humorous advertising created for Virgin Atlantic Airways. In 2004, Don formed Moriarty, Dougherty and Partners, a spin-off of his former agency CMG. Today, his company is focused on custom software development for the beer and distilled spirits industries.

Patricia Ardigo

Patricia H.C. Ardigo is a First Vice President in the Westchester-Connecticut office of CB Richard Ellis. She has over 18 years of experience in commercial real estate, most of which were spent providing service to clients in the Fairfield County, CT and Westchester County, NY markets. Throughout her career, Ms. Ardigo has acted as both tenant and landlord agent for clients in industries of all kinds. Her current focus, however, is on servicing the growing real estate needs of biotechnology, life sciences and pharmaceutical companies, and working with owners and developers to provide appropriate operational facilities for these firms. To aid her efforts in this concentration, Ms. Ardigo is the Director of CB Richard Ellis’ Life Sciences Group, a consortium of domestic and international brokers who not only look to educate and represent biotechnology, life science and pharmaceutical companies as tenant or landlord’s broker, but seek to facilitate the development of research parks.

Barbara Klippert, Esq., Secretary

Barbara Klippert is a partner in the New York City office of the international law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP where she specializes in the employee benefit aspects of capital market transactions. Ms. Klippert has been a member of numerous Boards of Directors and fund raising committees, as well as serving as pro bono legal counsel for, a variety of charitable and civic organizations and educational institutions in Rochester and Buffalo, New York and New York City

Lawrence E. May, Treasurer

Lawrence E. May, Certified Financial Planner, is the President of May Financial Group Ltd, a financial planning firm, Chief Executive Officer of May Capital Group, a FINRA registered licensed broker-dealer, and Managing Director of Strategic Advisors, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisory Firm. Larry’s primary role as a principal in a financial planning firm is to advise clients, both individuals and businesses, on how to effectively manage and maximize all aspects of their finances. He also dedicates his organizational talents to his passion for community involvement, which presently includes being the President of the Board of the Sara Chait Memorial Foundation. The Sara Chait Memorial Foundation provides grants for medical research to such esteemed hospitals as Mount Sinai, Memorial Sloan Kettering, NYU, and New York Presbyterian amongst others.

Lauralouise Duffy-Blatt, Vice President

Lauralouise Duffy is the CEO of Global Fund Exchange since 2006, a broad spectrum platform service business offering independent fund support, structuring services and consulting to a wide range of hedge funds, fund of funds, and institutional clients. In 2008, she launched GFX Alternatives, a company dedicated to the alternative energy and renewable resources sector.

Prior to Global Fund Exchange Group Ms. Duffy spent 15 years on Wall Street working in the capacity of CEO, COO and Managing Director in the Hedge Fund and Alternative Investments community. Most recently Ms. Duffy was Founder and President of Golden Retriever Capital, a global strategic development firm, consulting to major financial institutions in the alternative investment arena. Prior to starting Golden Retriever Capital, Ms. Duffy spent her career running the operations, administration and distribution of eleven hedge funds, building and running investment fund businesses for Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia and South America, including equity, global macro, emerging markets, venture, and private equity businesses.

A hands-on self-starter, Ms. Duffy is known for defining goals, initiating actions and achieving outcomes. She has applied the same vigor to active philanthropy. Prior to co-founding LBFF she participated in such Organizations as AHRC, Special Olympics, New York Blood Center, Breast Cancer Foundation, Aids Rides USA, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Association to Benefit Children, GAP programs of the Town of Oyster Bay and Our Lady of Mercy special education programs.

Diane Romo
Surgical Coordinator

From email to the operating room, in her role as Surgical Coordinator, Diane Romo manages all aspects of the Little Baby Face Foundation experience. Talking through surgery procedures, securing passports and medical visas, assisting with travel plans, coordinating places to stay pre- and post-operation, and helping to create a network among patients are just a few of the services Diane provides each day.

“I have the best job in the world. I am the first person that parents speak with, so I get to offer them the hope that their child can be helped. There is a need to reach out to children with birth defects across the globe, and we work with families from as far away as Malaysia, and as close as New York City’s five boroughs. LBFF families are so appreciative of our work, but it’s me who is honored. I get to assist in providing stellar medical care for children who would never otherwise receive it.”

Thomas Romo, III, M.D., President

Dr. Thomas Romo is currently the director of facial, plastic and reconstructive surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital and the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. He is a world-renowned innovator in surgical techniques involving reconstruction of the nose, ear and face. For the past twenty years, Dr. Romo has also dedicated his considerable talents to advancing microtia surgery. Dr. Romo is a graduate of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, and has completed fellowships in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and Tampa General Hospital. He is past president of the New York Facial Plastic Surgery Society, and the eastern section vice president of the American Academy of Facial, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He has published more than seventy-five chapters and papers on the latest techniques in facial plastic surgery, and his textbook, “Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery,” is considered a landmark on the topic. Dr. Romo is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the New York State and county medical societies.