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Monroe E. Abram
Mr. Abram is a Nationally Certified Addiction Counselor and a Certified Addictions Counselor and Clinical Supervisor in the state of Georgia. He has generously donated his services to the Board of Directors and the Certification Board of the Georgia Addiction Counselors Association for many years.
Mr. Abram operates a training company for addictions services throughout the Southern United States. Mr. Abram resides in Warner Robbins, Georgia.
R.J. Caffrey
Mr. Caffrey has a lifetime of experience in the area of law enforcement, intelligence, and management of large multifaceted organizations. Mr. Caffrey retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) having risen to the top echelons of that organization. During his tenure he was Deputy Director of the agency for Operations and Intelligence and was responsible for conducting agency-wide national and international field and program evaluations and inspections relative to fraud, waste and abuse. At various stages of his career, Mr. Caffrey coordinated, supervised, and managed regional operations in New York, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, and Atlanta.
Mr. Caffrey distinguished himself by recognizing the connections between money laundering and drug trafficking and developing chemical and financial instruments that have been integrated with standard investigative techniques. He is recognized internationally for these innovations which changed the course of drug trafficking investigations and are now the standard practice in criminal investigations and intelligence. Mr. Caffrey was instrumental in the downfall of Pablo Escobar, has been identified in films such as Cocaine Cowboy and Killing Pablo, and is the subject of Ann Woolner’s book Washed in Gold – The Story Behind the Biggest Money-Laundering Investigation in U.S. History.
On his retirement from the DEA, Mr. Caffrey was chosen by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy to develop and direct the Atlanta High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program. As Executive Director of that program, Mr. Caffrey coordinated the joint efforts of manifold local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to disrupt and dismantle drug trafficking and money laundering organizations through intelligence-driven, multi-jurisdictional operations.
Mr. Caffrey received his B.A. at Iona College, New York and has completed course work at Harvard University.
Margaret Cone
Ms. Cone is an accomplished manager with extensive experience in researching, planning, developing, and licensing behavioral health, social service, and elder service programs. As the Georgia Director of Substance Abuse services for adolescents and women, she designed and developed best practice programs that delivered desired outcomes at significant cost savings; and planned and implemented model outpatient and residential programs, including state of the art prevention and early intervention programs for women that lifted Georgia from the lower third to 11th in the nation within two years. Ms. Cone also has served as Director of Addiction Services for the state of Georgia’s largest Community Service Board, and has designed and implemented a jail-based substance abuse treatment and HIV prevention and intervention program.
Ms. Cone has developed winning budget requests, as well as staffing and facility plans tailored to local resources and state standards and service codes. She has assisted public and private sector programs achieve licensure, expand enrollment and increase revenue; and has been a statewide trainer on clinical care issues including family therapy and treatment plan writing.
Ms. Cone has served on national and state grant review committees, including peer review committees for SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse treatment (CSAT). Ms. Cone has extensive experience in media relations, media campaigns, and legislative advocacy.
Ms. Cone has a dual Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Psychology and a Master of Education in Community Counseling.
Robin Fredrik Duner-Fenter
Mr. Duner-Fenter is the President of NexcomMedia, a New York based media and marketing company. Mr. Duner-Fenter has a track record of identifying and executing entirely new business models in the interactive media and emerging technology sector.
In the early 1990’s he launched TouchTunes Interactive, one of the first interactive marketing companies that allowed consumers to preview and purchase genre specific music content over telephones. The company quickly enjoyed the support of all the major record labels. Mr. Duner-Fenter duplicated the business model with joint ventures in Japan, New Zealand and Australia.
Mr. Duner-Fenter earned a Bachelor of Arts in Advertising & Marketing from Boston University and a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology from Oxford University in England.
Robert Whiteside
Fr. Bob Whiteside is the Vice President of Development at All Hallows College, Dublin, Ireland. He has served in many academic and pastoral roles, served for a period as President of All Hallows, and is in the forefront of national and international development for the All Hallows Development Fund.
Bob is an accredited supervisor in Clinical Pastoral Education and, being a dramatic arts aficionado, uses drama as a creative methodology in pastoral, homiletic and communication training. He earned his M.A. at Notre Dame, Indiana.
Edward O’Mahony
Mr. O’Mahony is the founding member of O’Mahony and Company, a prestigious law firm in Cork, Ireland, whose work encompasses many phases of European law. Mr. O’Mahony obtained his law degree from the University Of Dublin, Ireland. Mr. O’Mahony has practiced law in Dublin and Cork.