The Follett Family Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at Northampton Community College is guided by both an external and internal advisory board. These boards play a crucial role in the success and sustainability of the CIE, providing strategic feedback and counsel to the Executive Director and NCC staff as they develop plans and initiatives.
Advisory board members are tasked with offering their expertise, skills, knowledge, and resources to support the CIE's mission. Their primary responsibility is to provide guidance, education, and advice, ensuring that the center remains innovative, effective, and aligned with its goals.
By fostering a collaborative and strategic environment, the advisory boards are instrumental in driving the continued growth and impact of the CIE.
Kevin T Campbell
President & CEO, Barry Isett & Associates
Kevin is currently President and CEO of Barry Isett & Associates, a multi-disciplinary engineering firm with seven locations in Pennsylvania. Kevin joined the Lehigh Valley headquarters of Barry Isett & Associates, Inc. in September 2005 as a staff management analyst. Kevin brought twenty years of leadership and technical experience that would serve to improve the efficiency and resource coordination for the company in the next decade to come. For his hard work and success, Kevin was named VP within his first year in the company and promoted to President in 2011. Kevin has degrees in Metallurgical Engineering (B.S), Electrical Engineering (M.S), and Business Administration (MBA).
During Kevin’s tenure as president, Barry Isett & Associates has been recognized as a Morning Call Top Workplace every year since the program’s inception, and was accorded the Societas Award for Responsible Corporate Conduct in 2016. Lehigh Valley Business also named Isett the 2016 Corporate Citizen of the Year and 2017 Company of the Year
Steve Follett
Former Chairman & CEO, Follett Corporation
Steve was Chairman and CEO of Follett Corporation for twenty-five years, retiring from the business in March of 2019. Follett is an industry leader since 1948 in designing and manufacturing high-quality, innovative ice and refrigeration-related products for foodservice and healthcare markets. With a BS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Cornell University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University, Steve joined Follett Corporation in 1987 after two years with The Trane Company and five years with IBM Corporation.
Steve is actively involved in the local community, and has served on both business and nonprofit boards. He served on the Board of Asbury Carbons in Asbury, New Jersey, and Cornell Ironworks in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of Lehigh Valley Health Network and the Foundation Board of Northampton Community College. He is also active in leadership positions at Grace Church of Bethlehem.
Mike Gausling
Managing Partner, Originate Ventures
Mike is currently a co-founder and managing partner of Originate Ventures LLC. Originate is a venture capital investment firm which invests in early stage and emerging growth technologies companies in Eastern Pennsylvania. Mike began his career by holding a variety of financial management positions at Proctor & Gamble from 1984 to 1987. From then, he became the co-founder and CEO of OraSure Technologies where he helped build the company from a start-up to more than $50 million in annual sales and a market cap of over $500 million in a 17-year period. The Company was best known for developing and securing FDA approval for the first rapid oral fluid HIV test in the world.
Mike is the Chairman of Lehigh Valley Industrial Park, Inc. a local non-profit land development company. He is also a board member of KNBT Bancorp, is the owner of the Victory Firehouse, and served on the Healthcare Advisory Board of Safeguard Scientifics. In addition, he is a Board Member and Treasurer for the Community Action Corporation of Lehigh Valley. Mike was recognized as Ernst and Young Central and Eastern PA Biotech Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005 and OraSure was named for seven consecutive years to the “Fast 50 Technology” companies in Eastern Pennsylvania. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and received his MBA in Finance from Miami University of Ohio.
Adam Lazarchak
Executive Director, Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School
Co-Owner, Did You Run Today? LLC
Adam is the Executive Director of the Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School. He was a graphic designer by trade and began his educational career as a Graphic Communications teacher at the Monroe Career & Technical Institute in 1997. Adam was hired by BAVTS in December of 2000 as their Commercial Art Instructor, joined their administrative team in 2006, and in 2015 was appointed as the Executive Director. A strong believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, he started his own business in 2020 and is the Co-Owner of Did You Run Today? LLC, an online store that sells unique running clothes and accessories.
Mr. Lazarchak received his undergraduate at Moravian College (Go Hounds!) and his Masters through Temple University. Although he didn't plan on becoming a CTE teacher Adam has a passion for its mission and for the institution he works for. The Nation and the Lehigh Valley is seeing a shortage of skilled labor and Mr. Lazarchak, along with his business and industry partners, are on a crusade to promote the values of career and technical education, dispel the stigma of Vo-Tech, and de-bunk the myth that a college degree is the best shot at success after high school.
Peter Morales
Founder & Chairman
Black Hawk Beverage Group
Peter Morales is founder and chairman of Black Hawk Beverage Group, a New York-based global food and beverage trading company. Prior to founding Black Hawk, Morales held executive positions at Metz Metallurgical Corp, Johnson & Johnson, Grand Metropolitan PLC of London, and Peerless Importers of NY. Peter earned a Bachelor’s degree in Natural Science and Psychology from the Lehigh University College of Arts and Sciences, and previously served as a member of the Lehigh Alumni Association Board of Directors as well as President of Zeta Psi Fraternity Alumni Association. Peter is the Founder/ President of "Vision 57," a global education/arts foundation established in 1998 at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Vision 57 supports primary school educational initiatives in agricultural regions worldwide.
Peter is a board member at Lehigh University.
Tom Stine
President, Viddler, Inc.
Tom has co-founded and led multiple firms from an early stage to successful exits. He brings a passion for guerilla marketing and always has a sense of urgency tempered with his collaborative team centric approach to leadership. He is an experienced, creative go-to-market focused entrepreneur, coach, fundraiser, community leader, and volunteer that seeks the next opportunity to lever skills, and to build and improve the community economically and socially. Tom is the current President and investor in Bethlehem based Viddler, Inc. This Ben Franklin and VC funded online video platform team delivers secure interactive video training to over 1,000 clients in 160 countries. He’s also led companies engaged in technology incubation, funding, software development, EMR software for Orthopedics, and digital prepress and print production.
Tom has also served in several leadership and community service roles. He has served as a board member for the Rising Tide Loan Fund, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern PA, Microlog Inc., Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, and Equi-librium. He has been a part of the Steering Committee at the Community Action Development Corp. in Bethlehem, and has guest lectured at Lehigh University.
Tim M. Fehr
Senior Strategic Advisor, BerkOne, Inc.
Tim is a business professional with an expertise in information technology and services. He has been with the Berkheimer family of companies for 45 years. His early professional years included work in all areas of computers including: computer operations, programming, system design and eventually to overall operations/management.
Tim is also a graduate of Northampton Community College.
Shahriar Naghshineh
Founder & President, LBN, Inc.
Shahriar Naghshineh is the president/founder of LBN, Inc., a 3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing consumables supplier. He has also assisted with set up of the Northampton Community College Fab Lab that includes 3D Printing and laser etching tools. He is the president/founder of Surface Chemistry Discoveries Inc., that patents and commercializes surface preparation products for use in the both the Semiconductor fabrication and PV Solar fabrication industries. The company also co-invents, markets and licenses products to fortune 1000 companies.
Shahriar received a BS in Civil Engineering from Birmingham University in Birmingham, England and a MS in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University. He was awarded two Ben Franklin Tech Partnership awards, Best Product and Serial Entrepreneur.
Dorothy Lindblad
Supervisor of Career & Technical Education
Career Institute of Technology
Dorothy Lindblad graduated from the University of Maryland with dual degrees in special education and elementary education. She went on to earn her early childhood education certification while working in a residential school/hospital setting for children with disabilities, as well as several public school early intervention settings. After raising a family and partnering with her husband in a family manufacturing sales/repair business, she opened and was the director/head teacher of an early childhood center in Easton. She then returned to public school teaching, and later taught early childhood education at the Career Institute of Technology for 11 years. She earned her Supervisor of Career and Technical Education certification from Temple University and currently serves in that position at CIT.
Catherine Bailey
Former President/Chief Operating Officer
Rea.deeming Beauty, Inc.
Catherine Bailey is the former President/Chief Operating Officer at Rea.deeming Beauty, Inc., the "home" of the original beautyblender® and most recently, Bounce foundation,. She was part of the start up working with the Company’s Founder beginning in 2002. She held the position of President/Chief Operating Officer since 2010 until her recent transition to an Advisory role, the first step to semi-retirement. Catherine’s role was to manage and lead the day to day functioning of all departments. Her 30+ years of experience in the cosmetic industry, has been instrumental in leading Rea.deeming Beauty to the industry position as a category creator. The company continues its innovations supporting the category leadership it developed around the world from their location in Bethlehem. Prior to coming to RBI, Catherine led product development and marketing efforts at another Cosmetic applicator company located in the area.
She is an avid supporter of local charities including “A Perfect Fit’, Via Foundation, Go Red for Women, Pediatric Cancer Foundation and Girl Scouts of America and the BAEF to name a few. She was honored by Ben Franklin with the Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2016 as well as Executive of the Year by Lehigh Valley Business and recently honored with the Circle of Exxcellence Award from LVB.
Sean Ziller
Deputy Director of Economic Development, City of Bethlehem, PA
Sean holds a Master of Public Administration degree, with graduate certificates in Public Budgeting & Financial Management and Public Sector Human Resources Management, from Penn State University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from King's College (PA). He is currently the Deputy Director of Economic Development for the City of Bethlehem and he previously worked for the City of Easton as the Community and Economic Development Administrator. Prior to his profession in the public sector, he worked in both the higher education and private sectors - in the latter, helping to drive the operational oversight and implementation of multi-million-dollar contracts that provided new technology resources to regional government agencies in Philadelphia. In addition to his membership on the CIE External Advisory Board, he currently serves on the boards of the Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley, the Lehigh County Authority (LCA), Discover Lehigh Valley (ex-officio), various Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce (GLVCC) boards, the Entrepreneurship Council of the Lehigh Valley, is on the Advisory Council for the Great Lakes Economic Development Council (GLEDC), a member of the North Whitehall Township Planning Commission, and serves as the Executive Director of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Bethlehem where he also represents the organization on the Bethlehem Economic Development Corporation (BEDCO) board.
He has previously served on the Easton Area Chamber board; Whitehall Township Planning Commission; as a column author for the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) online editorial; as Chairperson of the Luzerne County Accountability, Conduct, and Ethics Commission; and has volunteered extensively with the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Sean has been a resident of the Lehigh Valley since 2018.
Craig Sergio
Founder and CEO Thread Bioscience Inc.
Craig Serio is a seasoned entrepreneur and senior management executive with decades of experience in bringing software and hardware technology and devices to the healthcare industry. In addition to Thread Bioscience Inc., the company he is currently the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of, he is the founder of several start up enterprises and co-founder or senior management executive of several others. Those companies realized exits through acquisitions or IPO.
In addition to his endeavors as an entrepreneur, and a passion for improving healthcare delivery through technology and all things technological, Mr. Serio spends time with his wife between homes in Pennsylvania and Florida. He has traveled extensively throughout the world. He enjoys building things and working with his hands, is a licensed boat captain and an experienced boater, a licensed race driver who previously raced as member of a Porsche racing team, and has a passion for photography, having trained at the International Center for Photography in NYC, NY.
Farah L. Vallera, PhD, PMP
CEO, Mindful Learning Design, LLC
Farah has spent the past two decades as an intrapreneur in higher education - having served as a faculty member, an active educational researcher, and a practicing instructional designer and technologist. She has a PhD in Teaching, Learning, and Technology, where her focus was on curriculum and instructional design using innovative technology, project-based learning, and design thinking to integrate STEM subjects. She has recently completed her PMP certification and also holds a graduate certificate in Technical Entrepreneurship. Farah is the founder and CEO of Mindful Learning Design, LLC, a women-owned and operated curriculum and learning design firm in the Lehigh Valley, and she is also the Director of Learning and Technology for Action for Child Protection.
Farah currently serves on the boards of four organizations. She is the vice president of the board for the Center for Humanistic Change in Allentown and serves on the board for Essentials Café, a pay what you can café in Bethlehem. She is an advisory board member here at the CIE and also for the JuxtaHub Center in Emmaus. In her spare time, she's an organic urban gardener, an amateur woodworker, and an avid outdoors-person.
