Mindy S. Tarlow | Chief Executive Officer/Executive Director

Ms. Tarlow began her association with CEO as a Program Director at the Vera Institute of Justice in 1994, where she managed the successful spin-off of CEO from Vera. Prior to joining CEO, Ms. Tarlow spent close to ten years at the New York City Office of Management and Budget where she rose from Senior Analyst in 1984 to Deputy Director in 1992. Ms. Tarlow guided many criminal justice projects during her tenure in government including co-authoring the Mayor’s Safe Streets, Safe City Omnibus Criminal Justice Program.

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Ms. Tarlow is on the executive committee of the National Transitional Jobs Network and the New York City Employment & Training Coalition, and served on Mayor Bloomberg's Commission for Economic Opportunity. Most recently, Ms. Tarlow was named Chair of Governor Cuomo's Work for Success Committee, a statewide task force devoted to meeting the employment needs of formerly incarcerated people. Ms. Tarlow is also an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Central Leadership

BRAD DUDDING Chief Operating Officer	TANI MILLS Chief of External & Legislative Affairs

THAILIA ELCOCK-BOWEN Director of Human Resources	LOY MULYAGONJA Chief Financial Officer

BRAD DUDDING

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Brad Dudding joined CEO in 1994. He oversees CEO’s financial, MIS, transitional job and human resource operations and works closely with the executive director on organizational strategy and management operations. Prior to joining CEO, Mr. Dudding worked at the NYC Office of Management and Budget, under the direction of Mindy Tarlow. Mr. Dudding also served as a Municipal Financial Analyst at the New York State Controller’s Office and was responsible for overseeing the budgets of New York City’s uniformed agencies.

TANI MILLS

CHIEF OF EXTERNAL & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS

Tani P. Mills is responsible for enhancing CEO's visibility both in New York City and nationally, and for overseeing community and legislative outreach, publicizing CEO's brand to key local, state and national audiences.  In addition, she directs CEO's efforts to market and persuade large NYC businesses to hire CEO clients. Ms. Mills brings to her current position more than a decade of experience as Chief Program Officer of CEO, responsible for all facets of program services.  She began her career in senior administrative positions at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and then joined the Vera Institute of Justice in 1992.  Ms. Mills graduated from St. John's University with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and holds a Master's Degree in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

THAILIA ELCOCK-BOWEN

DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES

Administers compensation, benefits and performance evaluation programs, manages the orientation process for new CEO employees and oversees the Intake Department. Ms. Elcock-Bowen practiced law from 1992 to 1996, providing legal counsel to indigent clients. She began her career with CEO in February 1997 as a Life Skills Educator where she conducted orientation and Life Skills training course. In September of that year, she became the Assistant to the Executive Director and eventually served as a Program Coordinator where she helped to bring new programs on line. Ms. Elcock-Bowen earned her undergraduate degree in Africana Studies from Cornell University, and received her law degree from Vermont Law School.

LOY MULYAGONJA

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Loy Mulyagonja joined CEO in 2004 as Controller and was promoted to Director of Finance in 2006. She is responsible for providing strategic planning, strategic management, and leadership in the areas of financial analysis, financial reporting and corporate compliance. Ms. Mulyagonja has worked in the non-profit accounting field since 1995 and worked in public accounting prior to that. Before joining CEO, Ms. Mulyagonia worked with ERE, LLP as a Senior Staff Auditor as well as with Fiscal Management Associates, LLC an affiliate of ERE as a senior accounting consultant. Ms. Mulyagonja is a certified public accountant, as well as a certified non-profit accounting professional and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs.

New York City Leadership

MARTA NELSON Executive Director of CEO NYC

MARY BEDEAU Deputy Executive Director of CEO NYC

MICK MUNOZ Director of Transitional Jobs

DARRYL ROGERS Director of CEO Academy

Marta Nelson

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CEO NYC

Marta Nelson leads CEO’s New York City programs and operations. Ms. Nelson joined CEO in 2005, and oversaw development of policy and new projects and partnerships. Before CEO, Ms. Nelson worked at the Vera Institute of Justice on a variety of projects to improve systems to help men and women leaving prison and jail. Ms. Nelson was also a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice and the Prisoners’ Rights Project of the New York Legal Aid Society, where she worked to improve access to education for young people incarcerated in New York City jails.

Mary Bedeau

DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CEO NYC

With 21 years experience at youth development within the employment and training field, Ms. Bedeau began her career in workforce development at Vocational Foundation Inc in 1998. Prior to her current position, she was the Director for Replication Services for the WAY Program for Children’s Village in Dobbs Ferry, New York.  Previously, she successfully managed a long-term follow-up and sustained labor-force management program for disadvantaged youths that earned a PepNet award. Ms Bedeau has good consensus-building skills and a strong belief in staff development and training. She believes in giving front-line staff the access to information necessary to improve their caseload management skills and in using program evaluation to ensure continuous improvement.

Mick Munoz

DIRECTOR OF TRANSITIONAL JOBS

As the Director of Transitional Employment Services, Mick Munoz oversees the 200 CEO participants employed at 35 worksites throughout New York City every day. Mr. Munoz began his career with CEO in 2005 as a Retention Specialist. More recently, he managed CEO’s technical assistance team providing start-up assistance to the New York City Justice Corps. Mick is also a US Marine Corps veteran, serving in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm during the Persian Gulf War. He lives in New York City with his wife.

Darryl Rogers

DIRECTOR OF CEO ACADEMY

Darryl Rogers has over 22 years experience providing educational programs and vocational training to underserved populations in New York, New Jersey and Washington, DC. Prior to joining CEO, he worked as a program manager for National Urban League (NUL) assisting NUL’s affiliates in providing comprehensive job development training for at-risk and adjudicated youth. He worked as the director of Adult Education at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House where he managed educational programs for English-for-Speakers-of-Other-Languages (ESOL) as well as computer training classes for non-traditional students. He also worked as the director of UNITE Worker Education Program where he provided ESOL, GED and workforce development classes for its union members. He has a Master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh in Public & International Affairs. He became director of the CEO Academy in September 2008.

National Leadership

SAM SCHAEFFER Executive Director of CEO National

TIM WILLIAMS Deputy Executive Director of CEO National

BILL HEISER Director of California Operations

Sam Schaeffer

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CEO NATIONAL

Sam Schaeffer oversees CEO’s activities outside New York City, including five offices in upstate New York as well as one in California; he is also responsible for new business development and marketing at CEO. Sam joined CEO in April 2009 to export CEO’s capacity to other jurisdictions throughout the country.  Prior to joining CEO, he served as Director of Economic Development for US Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York. In that position he oversaw all job creation and retention efforts, transportation and infrastructure policy as well as social policy.

Tim Williams

DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CEO NATIONAL

Mr. Williams began his career with CEO in 2003 with the launch of a large scale multi-agency initiative on Rikers Island, and then as the Director of Transitional Employment Services.  Presently Mr. Williams serves as the Deputy Executive Director of CEO National where he oversees the launch and operation of new offices outside of New York City including Upstate New York offices in Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester as well as offices to be opened outside of New York State.  Prior to joining CEO, he worked with the Vera Institute of Justice on a prisoner reentry demonstration project. Mr. Williams also developed and managed several programs concerning intimate personal violence in both community and jail settings. Mr. Williams has a research background, both as the MacClure Fellow for the Study of International Affairs based in Mexico, and at the Highlander Center in Tennessee. Mr. Williams received a Masters of Science in Social Work from the University of Tennessee.

Bill Heiser

DIRECTOR OF CALIFORNIA

Bill Heiser oversees CEO’s operations in California.Bill joined CEO in 2010 to establish CEO’s presence in California, beginning with the Golden State Works Project in Oakland. He has over 7 years of experience in the reentry field. Prior to joining CEO Bill served as the Coordinator of the Community Safety and Justice Program at the Urban Strategies Council in Oakland where he managed a number of county-wide reentry and violence prevention initiatives. Bill also has an extensive background in reentry research and policy analysis having focused on this issue while serving as a research associate at both the Illinois Division of Mental Health and the Columbus Children’s Research Institute in Columbus, Ohio. He holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Hampshire College.