Furniture Sharehouse

Board of Directors

Kate Bialo (President & Executive Director) – Ms. Bialo is an attorney admitted to practice in New York and Texas with extensive corporate legal experience as in-house counsel to several international corporations. She is a Past President of The Junior League of Westchester on the Sound and was the driving force in the founding of Furniture Sharehouse.

Ken Bialo – Mr. Bialo is a lawyer in NYC with 37 years of experience in litigation of complex cases in the US and Canada. A former Mayor of Larchmont, Mr. Bialo is currently Vice Chair of the NYS Municipal Bond Bank Agency and head of the litigation practice at Emmet, Marvin & Martin, a 204 year-old law firm located on Wall Street.

Patricia Brown – Ms. Brown is a Principal with the international tax & accounting firm of KPMG, where she has specialized in international assignment tax and global mobility services for 14 years. Ms. Brown was also Treasurer for two years and Ways & Means Vice President for one year of The Junior League of Westchester on the Sound.

Rebecca Mazin – With more than 20 years of Human Resources experience, Ms. Mazin co-founded Recruit Right to provide consulting and training for both public and private organizations. The co-author of The HR Answer Book, published by AMACOM in 2004, she is currently writing The Employee Benefits Answer Book.

Sheila Lahey – Ms. Lahey has more than 30 years' experience in advertising research and was the founder and former owner of Radio Rep Reports. She is currently the Director of Research for Media Monitors in White Plains, a company that specializes in sales and marketing tools for media research. She is also a Past President of The Junior League of Westchester on the Sound.

Scott Damashek - Mr. Damashek has been President of National Advertising and Printing Corp., a promtional advertising and commercial printing company in Manhattan, since 1981. He is an active member of the Manhattan district of Business Networking International (BNI), the largest business networking organization in the world, and has served as Membership Coordinator. Mr. Damashek is also an active member of Community Unitarian Church in White Plains, where he just completed a 3-year term on the Board of Trustees, including 1 year as Vice-Chair.

Caryl Hahn
- Caryl Hahn brings more than 25 years of advertising and marketing experience to Furniture Sharehouse. Her career spanned both agency and client sides of the advertising industry. She was Marketing Director for VisionAWARE.org, an organization that serves those living with vision Loss. Caryl and her dog Layla are a therapy dog team with the Good Dog Foundation.