Mark Silverman
CEO: Mark’s Moving & Storage
CEO: THEStorageCompany.COM
Mark Silverman is the founder of both Mark’s Moving and Storage and Mark’s Northeastern Furniture Foundation. Mark is also the founder of TheStorageCompany.com, a premier source for warehousing and transportation of medical equipment, machinery, fixtures, and high-value products. With over 45 years of work experience in the storage industry, Mark provides innovative, reliable, and affordable storage solutions for a variety of customers and markets.
Mark has grown his companies from small local business to regional leaders in their market areas, serving residential, commercial, and industrial customers across Massachusetts and beyond.
Mark’s commitment to improving the environment and helping New England’s poor lead a better life; led him to develop Mark’s Northeastern Furniture Foundation, which has now repurposed one million pounds of furniture across New England.
Prof. Ted Clark
Northeastern University
Ted Clark is the Executive Director of the Northeastern University Center for Family Business.
Ted Clark received his MBA from Clark University, in Worcester, and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Southern Maine. He teaches Entrepreneurship and has taught in the College's Coop MBA, High-Tech MBA program and has also taught at Clark University's Graduate School of Management and Fisher College.
In addition to having been involved with the family business on Cape Cod, Professor Clark has been involved with a number of start-up companies and has held positions in marketing, sales, product management and product development. He has experience in the Internet and unregulated energy industries, and as an independent consultant, he specialized in business-to-business strategy development and marketing and has worked with clients in software development, medical billing, and financial services.
Clark's teaching interests include entrepreneurship, small business management, the management of family businesses, and marketing.
Clark sits on the Board of Advisors of a major family business and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Family Firm Institute, New England Chapter (FFI NEC). He is also a member of the FFI NEC educational program committee and membership committee. Clark is the co-chair of the Massachusetts Family Business Awards program and belongs to a number of organizations, including the Family Firm Institute (FFI) and Chambers of Commerce. He is also the editor of the Northeastern University Family Business Quarterly, (FBQ).
Ted is married, has two children and lives in Upton, Massachusetts.
David Nathan
David Nathan has more than twenty years experience in Media, Sales, Advertising and Communications, and more than a decade of experience working across all sectors of the Moving and Storage industry. David was the founder of COWS (Containers On Wheels) which provides residential friendly portable storage containers to homes and businesses throughout North America.
David is presently Sales Director for We Make Water, a company which literally makes drinking water from the air and provides governments, international NGOs and private coprorations innovative drinking water solutions even in the most difficult locations and cirtcumstances. David alo works as an expert consultant to many industry start-ups, where he mentors the next generation of innovative American business leaders. He is also a recognized portrait photographer and videographer.
David believes Mark’s Northeastern Furniture Foundation provides an imprtant and innovative model for how successful regional businesses can make a substantive impact in improving the lives of people in the communities they serve. He also believes it provides a powerful model of how the moving business, by partnering with furniture banks to avoid unneccesary landfill waste can help make a positive environmental impact. For these reasons, he his proud to serve on the board of Mark’s Northeast Furniture Foundation.
Keaghlan Wolfe Johnson
Phlash COnsulting
Keaghlan Wolfe Johnson is presently Director of Digital Growth for Phlash Consulting, where she has overseen monthly lead growth by 750%. Kealan previously was a Regional Sales Manager for Aegis Scienes Corporation, Associate District Manager for ADP, and earlier in her career, a branch manager for Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
Keaghlan is inspiried by the vision of Mark’s Northeastern Furniture Foundation and excitied to have to opportunity to serve on it’s board and ensure it fulfills its mission of helping New England’s poor while improving our environment.
Justin Silverman
NEFAC Executive Director. Attorney. Former Journalist and Publisher.
Justin Silverman is executive director of the New England First Amendment Coalition. A Massachusetts-based attorney, Justin helps lead NEFAC’s First Amendment and open government advocacy throughout the six-state region. His commentary has appeared in dozens of publications including The New York Times, Washington Post and The Boston Globe.
A former journalist and publisher, Justin is also an adjunct professor at the University of Maine School of Law, the University of Connecticut and New England Law, Boston. He has guest lectured at Emerson College (Boston), Curry College (Milton, Mass.), Endicott College (Beverly, Mass.), Roger Williams University (Bristol, R.I.), the University of Massachusetts and the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications (Manchester, N.H.).
Justin graduated from Suffolk University Law School in 2011. While a student, he worked as a full-time law clerk at the Boston firm Prince Lobel & Tye, LLP. At the firm, he worked directly with the lead counsel of what would become a $24 million arbitration case involving the insufficient payment of commissions to financial advisor co-claimants.
As a law student, Justin frequently contributed to the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard Law School‘s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He interned there during his third year of law school, writing about media law and technology. While in law school, Justin also founded Suffolk Media Law and its ABA-recognized blog, SuffolkMediaLaw.com.
In 2004, Justin began Boston Media Solutions to help local businesses devise publication and marketing strategies. In addition to creating websites for various companies, Justin developed the prototype to a Boston sports magazine and published the quarterly newspaper of the Needham Business Association.
While attending Syracuse University, Justin served as news editor of The Daily Orange, earning a nomination for both Reporter of the Year and Story of the Year awards at the 1999 Associated Collegiate Press Conference. He received in 2002 a William Randolph Hearst Award for his work.
Derek Rawls
Partner: Gray, Gray & Gray
As a key leader in the nationally prominent Tax Department of Gray, Gray & Gray, Derek Rawls provides clients with forward-looking strategic direction, while ensuring compliance with applicable tax laws across multiple jurisdictions.
Derek has vast experience with SALT – state and local taxation. He provides guidance for clients who deal with complex state and local tax issues in addition to federal taxes. His experience is particularly helpful for clients conducting business in multiple states.
Derek works with companies across a wide range of industries, including software, distribution, life sciences, real estate, and professional services. He identifies planning opportunities and ensures compliance with state income and franchise taxes, sales and use tax, property tax, employment taxes, and excise taxes across multiple states.
Derek joined Gray, Gray & Gray as a Director in 2014 after nearly 20 years with “Big Four” national accounting firms, including serving as a Partner leading Ernst & Young’s Georgia SALT practice. He became a Partner at Gray, Gray & Gray in 2016.