CIBS honors Gallivan, Fetta with annual award.The Commercial Industrial Brokers Society of Long Island (CIBS CIBS Centre for International Business Studies CIBS Center for International Business Studies CIBS Chartered Institution of Building Services CIBS Canadian International Business Strategy CIBS Chip Interleaved Block Spread CIBS Customer Information & Billing System ) presented its 2007 Associate Member of the Year Awards to Chuck Fetta, president of Office Furniture Warehouse, of Islandia, and John Gallivan, president and chief executive of Waldner's Business Environments Inc., Farmingdale. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The awards were presented Nov. 1 at CIBS annual Meet Your Associates Party at the Fox Hollow Inn, a catering facility in Woodbury. More than 350 people attended. "These men exemplify outstanding leadership and deserve recognition for their contribution to the endeavors of our professional organization," said Raymond Ruiz, president of CIBS. Eight years after developing a business at the now-defunct Roosevelt Raceway Flea Market, where he sold office supplies and chairs, Chuck Fetta opened The Office Furniture Warehouse in 1987. Today, the company sells to local and national clients, including LIPA, Computer Associates, Riverhead Building Supply, Austin Travel, Viacom-MTV Networks, Cambridge/Brighton Credit Counciling, Suffolk County, Nassau County, Stony Brook University The State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB), also known as Stony Brook University (SBU) is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York (on the north side of Long Island, about 55 miles east of Manhattan, New York). , dozens of Long Island school districts, and others. A native of Hicksville, Fetta hold a degree in aeronautics and business from Dowling College. He is a competitive ballroom dancer and was a principal dancer in the soon-to-be-released Disney movie "Enchanted en·chant tr.v. en·chant·ed, en·chant·ing, en·chants 1. To cast a spell over; bewitch. 2. To attract and delight; entrance. See Synonyms at charm. ," starring Patrick Dempsey. Gallivan, who was raised in Baldwin, is a 1970 graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta History Established in 1889 as a state normal school with the sole mission of training teachers, the College at Oneonta was a founding member of the State University of New York system in 1948. . He joined Waldner's in 1984 as Vice President/General Sales Manager, became President in 1991 and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. in 1999. Waldner's, established in 1939, is an office furniture distributor with annual sales of more than $90 million with three locations serving the New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Waldner's carries furniture made by more than 100 manufacturers, including Steelcase, Kimball, KI, Hon, Metro, and OFS (OFS, Norcross, GA, www.ofsbrightwave.com) A manufacturer of optical fibers and interconnect equipment. Formerly the Optical Fiber Solutions (OFS) Group of Lucent, OFS was turned into a stand-alone company acquired by Furukawa Electric in 2001. . The company also offers support services such as furniture storage and refurbishing. The companies clients include Bloomberg, Ernst & Young, MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. , Pepsico, Reader's Digest, and Sony. Before his work in the furniture industry, Gallivan was director of sales for the Hertz Corp. Gallivan, who lives in Bay Shore with his wife, Carol, and two daughters, is a trustee of Dowling College and an executive board member of Facilitilink, a nationwide office furniture-related services provider organization of the top Steelcase dealers in the U.S. |
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