Mel Schneiderman, Ph.D.

He is past President of APSAC-New York and continues to serve as a member of its Board of Directors, he serves on the Advisory Board of the New York Center for Children and is on the Board of Directors of PARTNERS Treatment Program at St. John’s University. Dr. Schneiderman serves as Member at Large for Advocacy at the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice (Division 37) of the American Psychological Association. He is currently Chair of the Executive Committee of both the National Initiative to End Corporal Punishment and the Psychological Maltreatment Alliance.

Dr. Schneiderman founded the first sexual abuse treatment program located within a child welfare agency in 1986. He is one of the founders and the first chairperson of the Committee of Clinicians in Child Welfare in New York City. He established the first Healthy Family Visiting Program in Staten Island providing home base services to expectant and new mothers to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Dr. Schneiderman co-authored with Dr. Amy Baker, a book entitled, “Bonded to the Abuser: How Victims make Sense of Childhood Abuse, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, May, 2015. His research interests and expertise include the mental health treatment of traumatized children, psychological maltreatment and the physical abuse of children. He has presented at over 50 conferences and workshops, he is the recipient of numerous foundation grants and has published over 20 articles in peer reviewed journals.

Owen Davis

Owen has worked in all aspects of the online world, including work with early versions of AOL and MSN.  He created one of the first 200 web sites on-line and founded Thinking Media, an online marketing firm which pioneered online tracking of pages and advertisements.  He co-founded Sonata in 1999, a wireless company that provided location-based services and marketing to cell phones.  Owen also co-founded, Petal Computing, a firm that developed software which allowed large numbers of commodity PCs to act like a single unit and was a precursor to cloud computing.

Owen is the author of various patents in Internet methods and technologies.  He is also the author of the book Instant Java Applets, available from Ziff-Davis Press. He is an original member of the World Wide Web Artists Consortium and served on that group's original board.  He was also an original member of the Board setting online advertising and media specifications and has served as Managing Director of the Wireless Advertising Association.  Owen was named various times as one of the 100 Top Internet Executives in New York by The Silicon Alley Reporter and has also been named one of the 100 most influential people in Silicon Alley by Business Insider. 

He received his bachelor's degree from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.  He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and Columbia Law School and has been an adjunct professor of engineering at New York University in New York City and Abu Dhabi.