Financial Fitne$$ Conference 2023

Jeff Bocach

President and CEO

Advantage Federal Credit Union

Jeff Bocach, President/CEO Advantage Federal Credit Union. Mr. Bocach has worked in various positions within Advantage since 1992. He was promoted to President/CEO in 2002. He holds a B. S. in Business Administration from the SUNY College at Brockport. Mr. Bocach was awarded the Certified Chief Executive designation by the Credit Union Executive Society in 2006, and was awarded “CEO of the Year” honors by the National Association of Federal Credit Unions in 2010. Mr. Bocach has spent nearly 20 years volunteering in public schools. He has been a member of the School-to-Career advisory Council at Spencerport Schools since 1998 and has been a very active volunteer at School #4 in the Rochester City School District for the past 12 years. He has been serving as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board for the School of Business and Management at SUNY Brockport since 2017. He frequently speaks to students at area high schools and colleges regarding financial literacy. He has been an outspoken advocate for requiring financial literacy instruction and assessment as a graduation requirement for local high schools. He has won numerous awards for his involvement in education.

Jenna and Peter Morgante

Owners

Tree Town Cafe

Peter and Jenna Morgante, Founders/Owners of Tree Town Cafe in Brighton, NY, opened their establishment in May of 2019. Less than a year later, they were faced with all the challenges of navigating a small business through a pandemic. By adapting their business model, Jenna and Peter were able to not only survive Covid, but to leverage the circumstances into an opportunity for growth. Tree Town has now expanded beyond offering just food, baked goods and coffee drinks into a full market of local products. They now operate two locations, one in the Thousand Islands along with a Mobile Coffee Trailer. Prior to founding Tree Town Cafe, the Morgantes founded and pastored The Well Church in Irondequoit, NY. Peter earned his degree from Elim Bible Institute and Jenna earned her Masters in Art Education from Nazareth College. They have two children who are actively involved in their businesses.

John C. Ninfo II

Retired U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge

John C. Ninfo, II received his B.S. in Psychology Degree from Georgetown University in 1968 and J.D. Degree from Boston University Law School in 1973. He served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of New York for 20 years, from 1992 through 2011. For 18 years prior to taking the bench, John was with the law firm of Underberg & Kessler in Rochester, New York where his concentration was in the areas of bankruptcy, banking and commercial law. In the Fall of 2002, Judge Ninfo, who had been speaking in high schools and colleges about personal finances since 1997,  founded the Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) Program, a personal financial literacy education outreach program that provides interested Bankruptcy Community Professionals to high schools, middle schools, colleges and other organizations to share with them their unique knowledge, experiences, and stories, and to provide them with personal finance lessons, tactics and techniques that will help them lead a financially responsible, consumer debt-free life. As of February 2008, the CARE Program had a presence in all fifty states and in the District of Columbia.

Joy Olabisi

Associate Professor and Director of BS/MS Supply Chain Programs, Management Dept.

RIT Saunders College of Business

Dr. Joy Olabisi is a management professor in the Saunders College of Business at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she also directs the Supply Chain Management BS and MS programs. She received her Master's and Doctorate degrees in industrial and operations engineering with a concentration in engineering management from the University of Michigan. She also holds a bachelor of science in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. For over 15 years, she has focused on improving team/work environments and leader/employee experiences across multiple industries as well as uncovering strategies for effective enterprising in emerging economies. Joy teaches topics in the areas of organizational behavior and leadership, high-performance teams, negotiations, and cross-cultural management. She is passionate about advocating for educational access and negotiation awareness and she strongly believes in the importance of making knowledge accessible, as it is a gateway to seizing opportunities and optimizing organizational productivity. As Margaret Fuller notes, “if you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”