David Qualey

David is a sales consultant for Ride-Away Handicap Equipment Corp. since April 2004. Ride-Away is America's largest provider of modified vehicles and adaptive equipment for people with disabilities. Dave joined Ride-Away because he wanted a career that would allow him to help people with disabilities achieve independence through mobility. David graduated from Bridgewater State College with a B.S. in Business Administration in 1994.
 

Clement Izzi

Clement is a retired businessman holding a BS in Organic Chemistry from Rutgers University. He was President/ Chief Operating Officer for 25 years for several companies in Merrimac Valley.

Clement became paraplegic in 2003 and blind in 2005. His direct experience with the challenges of SCI and blindness along with his history of general management will be of assistance to the issues facing both clients and providers of services to the SCI community of New Hampshire. He is married with two daughters and five grandchildren. 

 Mark Krider

Mark is a six year Navy Veteran and currently working as a Senior Simulator Specialist with Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee (VY) in Brattleboro, Vermont. He has been at VY for 28 years starting as an Operator in 1981 and has held various positions ranging from Operations Instructor to Supervisor in the Training Department. Mark is a C4-C5 incomplete quadriplegic from a fall off a ladder in December of 1993. Mark graduated from Franklin Pierce College with a B.S. in Computer Science 1990 and returned achieving an MBA in Leadership from Franklin Pierce College in 2000. He has been a strong advocate for the passage of Christopher and Diana Reeve Paralysis Act (CDRPA) and currently a member of the State steering committee for the Granite State Employment Project as well as the Paralyzed Veterans of America. As a member of the NHNSCIA advisory board he is hoping his background and personal spinal cord injury experience can be utilized in supporting the NHNSCIA mission.

John Treat
John’s twenty year career working with banks computer systems abruptly ended due to an injury in 2003. He has had to adapt to his injury as he has reflected on how deeply his identity was defined by walking; he delivered papers in the Vermont winters of his youth, marched in anti-war demonstrations in the 1970’s and met his wife on a bird walk.

Like everyone with a spinal cord injury, he had to adapt physically, psychologically and emotionally. As the issues of finances, insurance, SSI, and health care have diminished he has become deeply involved in community activities. He finds the New Hampshire Spinal Cord Injury Association especially rewarding for all the doors it helps him to open.
 

Carol Adams

 Tim McLeod