Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Executive
Branch
Deputy Secretary, Education:
EXECUTIVE BRANCH De’Shawn Wright. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-408-1109
Deputy Secretary, Legislative Affairs:
This chapter provides a summary of officials in the Executive Branch. For a Sabrina Ty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-3940
more detailed listing of specific executive and administrative departments and Deputy Secretary, Public Safety:
agencies, refer to the appropriate policy area in Section 2 or to the Organiza- Elizabeth Glazer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-3522
tions Index. Biographies for the senior Executive Branch officials appear in a Deputy Secretary, Human Services, Technology & Operations:
separate section in the back of the book. Kristin Proud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-408-2922
Deputy Secretary, Gaming & Racing:
Bennett Liebman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-9896
NEW YORK STATE Deputy Secretary, Policy Management:
James Malatras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-408-2576
Governor (also see Governor’s Office): Deputy Secretary for Financial Services:
Andrew M Cuomo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-8390 George Haggerty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-5442
Lieutenant Governor:
Robert J Duffy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-2292 Communications
Director, Communications:
Chief Information Officer & Director, Office of Information
Melissa DeRosa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-8418
Technology Services (also see CIO Office & Office of
Information Technology Services): Counsel
Brian Digman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-408-2140 Counsel to the Governor:
Comptroller (also see State Comptroller, Office of the): Mylan Denerstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-8834
Thomas P DiNapoli. . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-4044 or 212-681-4491 First Assistant Counsel:
Seth Agata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-8434
Attorney General (also see Law Department):
Eric T Schneiderman . . . . . . . . . 518-474-7330 or 212-416-8000 New York City Office
Secretary of State (also see State Department): 633 Third Ave, 38th Fl, New York, NY 10017
Cesar A Perales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-0050 212-681-4580
Governor:
Governor’s Office Andrew M Cuomo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-681-4580
Executive Chamber Office of the Secretary
State Capitol Secretary to the Governor:
Albany, NY 12224 Lawrence Schwartz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-681-4580
518-474-8390 Fax: 518-474-1513 Director, NYC Intergovernmental Office:
Web site: www.governor.ny.gov; www.ny.gov Robert Diamond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-681-4580
Director, Communications:
Governor: Melissa DeRosa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-681-4640
Andrew M Cuomo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-8390
Secretary to the Governor: Washington Office of the Governor
Lawrence Schwartz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-4246 444 N Capitol St NW, Washington, DC 20001
Counsel to the Governor: 202-434-7100
Mylan Denerstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-8343 Director:
Director, Communications: Alexander Cochran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202-434-7100
Melissa DeRosa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-8418 or 212-681-4640
Lieutenant Governor’s Office
Office of the Secretary Executive Chamber
Secretary to the Governor: State Capitol
Lawrence Schwartz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-4246
Albany, NY 12224
Director, State Operations:
Howard Glaser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-9871 518-402-2292 Fax: 518-474-1513
Counselor to the Governor:
Andrew Zambelli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-4623 633 Third Ave
Special Counsel to the Governor: New York, NY 10017
Linda Lacewell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-4623 212-681-4575
Special Counsel to the Governor:
Jeremy Creelan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-5563 Lieutenant Governor:
Executive Deputy Secretary to the Governor: Robert J Duffy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-2292 or 212-681-4575
Joseph Percoco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-3940 Chief of Staff:
Executive Deputy Director of State Operations: John Maggiore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-2292
Fran Reiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-4378 Director of Special Projects:
Deputy Secretary, Health: Sean Hart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-2292
James Introne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-408-2500 Director, Policy:
Deputy Secretary & Counsel for Civil Rights: Brian Quiara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-2292
Alphonso David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-1214 Director, Scheduling/Constituent Services:
Deputy Secretary, Transportation: Kaii Torrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-2292
Karen Rae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-408-2555
Deputy Secretary, Economic Development:
Leecia Eve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-7672
Chairman of Energy & Finance for New York:
Richard Kauffman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-408-2552
Offices and agencies generally appear in alphabetical order, except when specific order is requested by listee.
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EXECUTIVE BRANCH / New York State
Offices and agencies generally appear in alphabetical order, except when specific order is requested by listee.
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EXECUTIVE BRANCH / New York State
Executive
Branch
Deputy Superintendent, Community Regional Banks: Assisant Commissioner, External Affairs & Communications:
Martin Cofsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-709-1610 Jennifer Givner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-3130 or 518-473-7793
Deputy Superintendent, Property/Casual Markets: fax: 518-486-7550
Michael Moriarty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-480-5127 e-mail: info@ocfs.state.ny.us
Director, Criminal Investigations Bureau: Acting Deputy Commissioner, Legal Affairs & General Counsel:
Ricardo Velez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-709-3554 Lee Prochera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-8418
Chief Information Officer: Acting Deputy Commissioner, Administration:
William Rachmiel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-709-5420 Mikki Warel-Harper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-1110
Director, Frauds: Deputy Commissioner, Child Welfare & Community Service:
Frank Orlando. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-480-5770 Laura Velez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-3377
Acting Director, Capital Markets Division: Deputy Commissioner, Juvenile Justice & Opportunity for Youth:
Matti Peltonen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-480-5071/fax: 212-480-6085 Felipe Franco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-476-6766
Director, Public Affairs: Deputy Director, Information Technology:
Andrew Mais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-480-5257/fax: 212-480-6077 John Birtwistle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-408-3046
Associate Commissioner, Blind & Visually Handicapped Commission:
Budget, Division of the Brian S Daniels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-7812
State Capitol Council on Children & Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fax: 518-473-2570
Albany, NY 12224 52 Washington Street, West Bldg, Ste 99, Rensselaer, NY 12144
518-473-3885 518-474-5522 Fax: 518-473-2570
Web site: www.budget.ny.gov e-mail: council@ccf.ny.gov
Web site: www.ccf.ny.gov
Director: Executive Director:
Robert L Megna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-2300 Deborah Benson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-5522/fax: 518-473-2570
First Deputy Director: Counsel:
Mary Beth Labate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-7163 Elana Marton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-3652
Deputy Director: e-mail: elena.marton@ccf.ny.gov
Catherine Durand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-6497 Project Director, Head Start Collaboration:
Deputy Director: Patricia Percell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-3652
Dan Sheppard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-6470 e-mail: patricia.percell@ccf.ny.gov
Budget Services Head: Coordinator, Coordinated Children’s Services Initiative:
Bob Brondi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-0580 Janet Sapio-Mayta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-3652
Public Protection Head: e-mail: janet.sapio-mayta@ccf.ny.gov
Susan Knapp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-4313
Press Officer:
Morris Peters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-3885/fax: 518-474-9041
Civil Service Department
e-mail: dob.sm.press@budget.ny.gov Alfred E Smith State Ofc Bldg
Albany, NY 12239
CIO Office & Office of Information Technology Services 518-457-2487 or 877-697-5627
State Capitol Web site: www.cs.ny.gov
Empire State Plaza Commissioner:
PO Box 2062 Jerry Boone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-457-3701
Albany, NY 12220-0062 Executive Deputy Commissioner:
518-402-2537 or 866-789-4638 Fax: 518-474-1196 Vacant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-5698
e-mail: customer.relations@its.ny.gov Deputy Commissioner, Operations:
Web site: www.its.ny.gov Vacant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-5711
Deputy Commissioner, Administration:
Chief Information Officer/Director of ITS: Deirdre Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-5694
Brian Digman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-408-2140 General Counsel:
Chief Technology Officer: Ilene Lees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-2624
Kishor Bagal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-408-2484 Director, Workforce & Occupational Planning:
Counsel & Legal Services: Vacant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-6411
Karen Geduldig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-3019 Director, Financial Administration:
Director, Administration: Vacant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-2269
Terri Papa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-2140 Director, Employee Benefits:
Chief Data Officer: Robert Dubois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-1977/fax: 518-473-3292
Barbara Cohn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-3019 Human Resources & Administrative Planning:
Director, Public Information: Valerie Morrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-4306
Michelle McDonald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-408-3899 Public Information Officer:
Ed Walsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-457-9375/fax: 518-473-2372
Children & Family Services, Office of e-mail: pio@cs.state.ny.us
52 Washington St Civil Service Commission
Rensselaer, NY 12144 President:
518-473-7793 Fax: 518-486-7550 Jerry Boone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-457-3701
Web site: www.ocfs.ny.gov Commissioner:
Caroline Ahl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-6326
Commissioner: Commissioner:
Gladys Carrion, Esq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-6666 Dennis Hanrahan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-6326
Executive Deputy Commissioner:
Sheila Poole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-3108
Offices and agencies generally appear in alphabetical order, except when specific order is requested by listee.
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EXECUTIVE BRANCH / New York State
Offices and agencies generally appear in alphabetical order, except when specific order is requested by listee.
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EXECUTIVE BRANCH / New York State
Executive
Branch
Chairperson: Director, Public Information:
Rose Marie Toscano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-7505 John W Conklin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-1953/fax: 518-473-8315
Vice Chairperson: e-mail: jconklin@elections.state.ny.us
Ansley Bacon, PhD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-7505 Coordinator, NVRA:
Executive Director: Gregory Fiozzo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-1953
Sheila M Carey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-7505
e-mail: sheila.carey@ddpc.ny.gov Homeland Security & Emergency Services, Division of
Deputy Director-Program Development Specialist: 1220 Washington Ave
Anna Lobosco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-7505
Bldg. 7A
e-mail: anna.lobosco@ddpc.ny.gov
Public Information Officer: Suite 710
Thomas F Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-7505/fax: 518-486-3505 Albany, NY 12242
e-mail: thomas.lee@ddpc.ny.gov 518-242-5000 Fax: 518-322-4978
Web site: www.dhses.ny.gov
Education Department Commissioner & Director, Office of Counterterrorism:
State Education Bldg Jerome M Hauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-292-2301
89 Washington Ave Assistant Director, Office of Counterterrorism:
Albany, NY 12234 David Sheppard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-242-5121
518-474-3852 Fax: 518-486-5631 Director, Fire Prevention Bureau & State Fire Administrator:
Web site: www.nysed.gov Paul D Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-6746
e-mail: fire@dhses.ny.gov
Commissioner & University President: Director, State Office of Emergency Management:
John B King Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-5844 Steven Kuhr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-292-2301
Executive Deputy Commissioner: First Deputy Director, Emergency Management:
Elizabeth Berlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-8381 Greg Brunelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-242-5000
General Counsel & Deputy Commissioner: Assistant Director, OEM Training:
Richard Trautwein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-6400 Richard French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-292-2357
e-mail: legal@mail.nysed.gov Executive Assistant to the Director:
Deputy Commissioner, Higher Education: Angela Groelz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-292-2301
John D’Agati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-3633 Director, Office of Cyber Security:
Deputy Commissioner, Cultural Education Office: Thomas D Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-242-5200
Jeffrey Cannell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-5976/fax: 518-486-4850 e-mail: ocs.info@dhses.ny.gov
e-mail: jcannell@mail.nysed.gov Director, Office of Interoperable & Emergency Communications:
Deputy Commissioner, Office of the Professions: Robert Barbato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-292-4913
Douglas Lentivech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-1765 e-mail: dhsesoiec@dhses.ny.gov
Deputy Commissioner, Office of P-12 Education: Public Information Officer:
Ken Slentz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-3862 Rachel McEneny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-242-5133/fax: 518-322-4978
Deputy Commissioner, Adult Career & Continuing Ed Svcs (ACCES):
Kevin Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-2714 Empire State Development Corporation
Deputy Commissioner, Performance Improvement & Mgmnt Svcs:
633 Third Ave
Sharon Cates-Williams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-4706
Chief, External Affairs (Communications): New York, NY 10017
Dennis Tompkins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-1201/fax: 518-473-2977 212-803-3100
e-mail: esd@esd.ny.gov
Elections, State Board of Web site: www.esd.ny.gov
40 N Pearl Street
Suite 5 625 Broadway
Albany, NY 12207 Albany, NY 12207
518-474-6220 or TTY: 800-367-8683 Fax: 518-486-4068 518-292-5200
e-mail: info@elections.ny.gov 95 Perry Street
Web site: www.elections.ny.gov Ste 500
Co-Chair: Buffalo, NY 14203
James A Walsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-8100 716-846-8200
Co-Chair: Fax: 716-846-8260
Douglas A Kellner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-8100
Commissioner: President & CEO:
Evelyn J Aquila . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-8100 Kenneth Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-803-3700 or 518-292-5100
Commissioner: Chair:
Gregory P Peterson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-8100 Julie Shimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-803-3700
Co-Executive Director: Regional President:
Todd Valentine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-6336/fax: 518-474-1008 Sam Hoyt
Co-Executive Director: Press Office:
Robert A Brehm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-6336/fax: 518-474-1008 Jola Szubielski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800-260-7313
Special Counsel: e-mail: jszubielski@esd.ny.gov
Kimberly Galvin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-6367 Chief of Staff:
Election Law Enforcement Counsel: Mehul Patel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-803-3700 or 518-292-5100
Elizabeth C Hogan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-2063 CFO & CAO:
Director, Election Operations: Frances A Walton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-803-3510
Anne E Svizzero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-5086/fax: 518-486-4546
Offices and agencies generally appear in alphabetical order, except when specific order is requested by listee.
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Senior Vice President, Government Affairs: Deputy Commissioner, Design & Construction:
Kevin Younis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-803-3100 Vacant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-0337/fax: 518-486-9135
Vice President, Marketing: Deputy Commissioner, Information Technology & Procurement Services:
Harvey Cohen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-803-3100 Vacant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-3933/fax: 518-486-9166
Senior Vice President & Audit Director: Deputy Commissioner, Legal Services & Counsel:
Thomas P. Brennan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-803-3100 Howard Zwickel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-5988/fax: 518-473-4973
Director, Real Estate Planning & Development Group:
Employee Relations, Governor’s Office of James Sproat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-4944
Two Empire State Plz Director, Public Affairs:
Heather Groll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-5987/fax: 518-402-5146
Ste 1201
Albany, NY 12223
Health Department
518-473-8766 Fax: 518-473-6795
Corning Tower
e-mail: info@goer.ny.gov
Empire State Plaza
Web site: www.goer.ny.gov
Albany, NY 12237
Director: 518-474-2011
Gary Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-6988/fax: 518-486-7304 Web site: www.health.ny.gov
Deputy Director, Contract Negotiations & Administration:
Vacant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-3130/fax: 518-486-7304 Commissioner:
Acting General Counsel: Nirav R Shah MD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-2011
Michael N Volforte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-4090/fax: 518-486-7304 Executive Deputy Commissioner:
Director, Administration: Sue E Kelly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-2011
Mary Hines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-3467/fax: 518-473-6725 Acting Records Access Officer:
CIO/Information Technology Division: James P. O’Hare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-8734
Moses M Kamya PhD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-1305/fax: 518-473-6294 Director/CIO:
Brian Y Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-8373/fax: 518-486-7374
Environmental Conservation Department Deputy Commissioner, Health Insurance Programs/NYS Medicaid Director:
Jason A Helgerson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-3018/fax: 518-486-6852
625 Broadway
Assistant Commissioner, Governmental & External Affairs:
Albany, NY 12233-0001 James Clancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-1124/fax: 518-473-9674
518-402-8545 Fax: 518-402-9016 General Counsel:
Web site: www.dec.ny.gov James E Dering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-7553/fax: 518-473-2802
Deputy Commissioner, Health Info Technology Transformation:
Commissioner:
Rachel Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-5423
Joseph J Martens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-8545/fax: 518-402-8541
Deputy Commissioner, Public Health:
Executive Deputy Commissioner:
Guthrie S Birkhead MD MPH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-5073
Marc Gerstman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-9401
Director, Health Emergency Preparedness:
General Counsel:
Michael J Primeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-2893
Ed McTiernan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-9185/fax: 518-402-9018
Acting Director, AIDS Institute:
Assistant Commissioner, Hearings & Mediation:
Dan O’Connell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-417-5500 or 518-474-6399
Louis Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-8537
Director, Center for Community Health:
Assistant Commissioner, Natural Resources:
Bradley J Hutton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-4371
Kathy Moser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-2797
Director, Family Health:
Deputy Commissioner, Administration:
Rachel de Long. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-7922
Anne Reynolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-9401
Deputy Commissioner, Health Systems Management:
Assistant Commissioner, Public Protection & Regional Affairs:
Vacant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-7028
Chris Walsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-8549/fax: 518-402-9016
Interim Director, The Wadsworth Center:
Deputy Commissioner, Remediation & Materials Management:
Jill Taylor, PhD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-3157
Gene Leff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-2794
Director, Public Affairs Group:
Assistant Commissioner, Air Resources, Climate Change & Energy:
Bill Schwarz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-7354 x1
Jared Snyder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-8537
Director, Public Website Administration:
Assistant Commissioner, Water & Watershed:
Kathleen A Shanahan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-4577
James Tierney. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-8545
Director, Public Affairs:
Michael Bopp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-8000 Housing & Community Renewal
Hampton Plaza
General Services, Office of 38-40 State St
Corning Tower, 41st Fl Albany, NY 12207
Empire State Plaza 866-275-3427 or 518-473-2526
Albany, NY 12242 Web site: www.nyshcr.org
518-474-3899 Fax: 518-474-1546
25 Beaver St
Web site: www.ogs.ny.gov
New York, NY 10004
Commissioner: 866-275-3427
RoAnn Destito . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-5991/fax: 518-486-9179
Executive Deputy Commissioner: Commissioner/CEO:
Joseph J Rabito . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-6953 Darryl C Towns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-3370
Deputy Commissioner, Administration: First Deputy Commissioner:
Gail Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-3199 Michael Skrebutenas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-0632 or 212-480-6718
Offices and agencies generally appear in alphabetical order, except when specific order is requested by listee.
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Executive
Branch
President, Office of Community Renewal: State Inspector General:
Matthew Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-480-6707 Catherine Leahy Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-635-3150 or 518-474-1010
President, Office of Finanace & Development: e-mail: inspector.general@ig.ny.gov
Marian Zucker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-3370 or 212-480-6772 Executive Inspector General:
fax: 518-473-9462 Spencer Freeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-635-3150
Director, Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity: Deputy Inspector General - Investigations:
Wanda Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-2057/fax: 518-474-5247 Bernard Cosenza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-635-3150
Chief Public Information Officer: Director, Communications:
Charni Sochet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-872-0338 William P. Reynolds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-1010
Offices and agencies generally appear in alphabetical order, except when specific order is requested by listee.
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Offices and agencies generally appear in alphabetical order, except when specific order is requested by listee.
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Executive
Branch
Deputy Commissioner, Administration: Deputy Commissioner, Finance & Administration:
Gregory J Kline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-6876/fax: 518-474-0712 Melinda Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-0414
Deputy Commissioner, Legal Affairs: Director, Operations & Programs:
Neal Schoen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-1965/fax: 518-474-0712 Marc Talluto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-0440
Deputy Commissioner, Operations & Customer Service: Deputy Commissioner, Historic Preservation:
Yomika Bennett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-0846 Ruth Pierpont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-237-8643 x3269
Deputy Commissioner, Safety, Consumer Protection & Clean Air: Secretary:
Terri Egan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-402-4860/fax: 518-474-0712 Virginia Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-0443
Director, Information Technology: General Counsel:
Adam Gigandet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-0605 Patrick Bradford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-0414
Director, Driver Safety Programs: Park Police/Director, Law Enforcement:
Kathy McHale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-0855 Chief Richard O’Donnell . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-4029/fax: 518-408-1032
Associate Commissioner, Communications: Deputy Public Information Officer:
Jackie McGinnis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-7000/fax: 518-473-1930 Dan Keefe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-1868
NYS Commission on Quality of Care & Advocacy for Parole Board, The
Persons with Disabilities Corrections & Community Supervision
401 State Street 97 Central Ave
Schenectady, NY 12305 Albany, NY 12206
800-624-4143 or 518-388-1281 Fax: 518-388-1276 518-473-9548 Fax: 518-473-6037
Web site: www.cqc.ny.gov Web site: www.parole.ny.gov; doccs.ny.gov
Acting Chair/COO: Chief Executive Officer & Chair:
John Rybaltowski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-388-1281 Andrea W Evans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-9548
Commissioner: Chief Counsel:
Patricia Okoniewski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-388-1281 Terrence X Tracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-5671/fax: 518-473-9760
Commissioner: Public Information Offficer:
Bruce G Blower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-388-1281 Vacant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-486-4631/fax: 518-473-6037
Counsel: Director, Administrative Services:
Vacant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-388-1281/fax: 518-388-1275 Jeffrey Nesich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-3901/fax: 518-486-5858
Director, Advocacy & Outreach: Deputy Commissioner, Community Supervision:
Rosemary Lamb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-388-0691/fax: 518-388-3375 Angela Jiminez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-473-9672 or 212-239-5730
Public Information Officer: Director, Internal Operations:
Bryan Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-388-2891 Timothy O’Brien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-408-3473
NYSTAR - Division of Science, Technology & Innovation Prevention of Domestic Violence, Office for the
30 South Pearl St 80 South Swan Street
11th Fl 11th Fl Rm 1157
Albany, NY 12207 Albany, NY 12210
518-292-5700 Fax: 518-292-5798 518-457-5800 Fax: 518-457-5810
e-mail: nystarsupport@esd.ny.gov e-mail: opdvpublicinfo@opdv.ny.gov
Web site: www.csd.ny.gov/nystar Web site: www.opdv.ny.gov
Executive Director: 90 Church St, 13th Fl
Edward Reinfurt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-292-5700 New York, NY 10007
e-mail: ereinfurt@nystar.state.ny.us
Executive Deputy Director:
212-417-4477
Edward J Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-292-5700 Fax: 212-417-4972
e-mail: ehamilton@nystar.state.ny.us
Acting Executive Director:
Director, Communications/Government Affairs:
Gwen Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-457-5800
Jannette Rondo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-292-5700/fax: 518-292-5798
Director, NYC Program:
e-mail: jrondo@nystar.state.ny.us
Sujata Warrier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212-417-4477
Director, Regional Technology Development:
Counsel:
Matthew Watson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-292-5700
Johanna Sullivan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-457-5800
Counsel:
Director, Prevention & Human Services:
Paul Jesep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-292-5700
Gwen Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-457-5916
Fiscal Officer:
Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation, NYS Office of Linda Cassidy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-457-7995
Empire State Plaza, Bldg 1 Public Information Officer:
625 Broadway, 12207 Suzanne Cecala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-457-5744
Albany, NY 12238 e-mail: suzanne.cecala@opdv.ny.gov
518-486-0456 Fax: 518-486-2924
Web site: www.nysparks.com Public Employment Relations Board
80 Wolf Rd
Commissioner:
Albany, NY 12205
Rose Harvey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-0443
Executive Deputy Commissioner: 518-457-2578 Fax: 518-457-2664
Andrew Beers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518-474-0020/fax: 518-474-4492 e-mail: perbinfo@perb.ny.gov
Web site: www.perb.ny.gov
Offices and agencies generally appear in alphabetical order, except when specific order is requested by listee.
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Offices and agencies generally appear in alphabetical order, except when specific order is requested by listee.
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