SVC Board of Directors
David Massey
Partner at Hogan Lovells
Board Chairman
David Massey understands that a company's most important strategic objectives are often achieved, or preserved, through litigation. A company's survival can depend on the effectiveness of its litigation counsel. David is an adviser and business partner to clients with complex business challenges in high-stakes and bet-the-company matters. David's adeptness at crafting vital strategic advantages makes him a valued partner when it really counts. He is a "lawyer's lawyer" to whom other attorneys often turn when the stakes are high.
David is a go-to lawyer for many of the nation's largest companies, including numerous Fortune 100 companies, and is lead trial counsel in many high-stakes matters for clients nationwide. David is an experienced health care litigator and represents many of the largest health care companies in class actions, MDLs, large-scale ERISA and other under-reimbursement cases, violations of the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute and Beneficiary Inducement CMP, health care fraud, regulatory enforcement actions, and other managed care litigation.
David also represents many clients in the travel, transportation, and consumer products sectors, defending airlines, cruise lines, automotive manufacturers, transportation companies, alcohol beverage suppliers, and many hair care and beauty care brands in virtually every kind of litigation, including domestic and international distributor terminations, class actions, MDLs, product liability, product recalls, receivership actions, intellectual property disputes, COVID-19 litigation, and a myriad of breach of contract, tort, and antitrust actions. David has also represented companies in government investigations involving pharmaceuticals, hospitals, promotional products, and alcohol beverages, and regularly represents a wide variety of other clients including large developers, law firms, accounting firms, startups, and nonprofits.
David clerked for the Honorable K. Michael Moore, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He also served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Henry B. Pitman, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; the Honorable David G. Trager, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York; and the Honorable Deborah Kaplan, Supreme Court, New York. David also served as a Sergeant in the infantry of the U.S. Marine Corps, including combat duty in Iraq.
Neal Pfeiffer
Global Food Industries CFO
BoardTreasurer
Mr. Neal Pfeiffer has been in his own business since 1973. In 1982, in order to help feed under-privileged people, he began to create formulas for the institutional foodservice market in the United States and abroad. The areas served are schools, correctional institutions, charitable feeding agencies, hospitals and armed services.
Excellence in quality control, outstanding customer service, and adapting to nutrition and health trends have made Neal Pfeiffer’s company prosper. Most products are created as fully nutritious meals (high in protein) using all natural flavors and no artificial preservatives.
Mr. Neal Pfeiffer has a varied background as an entrepreneur in turnkey food processing and plant construction. In 1982, he founded an Illinois based food manufacturing and distribution facility called Global Food Industries, Incorporated. As president of the company, he developed all facets of the business including building a sales organization that markets products on a domestic and international basis. In conjunction with two other entities, a consortium was formed which put into service over 20 international food processing and production facilities. This capability literally consists of planting the seed, harvesting, processing and packaging various food products for domestic as well as international distribution.
Mr. Pfeiffer has served on the Board of Directors of the Royal American Food Company and of the Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation. He is also a member of several trade organizations such as the Association of Correctional Food Service Affiliates. Most recently Neal and his wife, Paulette Pfeiffer started a non-profit organization that services children with incarcerated parents, Silent Victims of Crime, which operates in Anderson, South Carolina and Miami, Florida.
Sandra Joseph
Global Food Industries Executive Director
Board Secretary
Sandra was born and raised in Mali, West Africa. She graduated from the International Business School of Poitiers, France (ESC Poitiers) with a degree in International Business in 1996. That same year she moved to Chicago, Illinois and to join Global E. Resources, an international development consulting firm.
In 1998, she relocated to South Carolina to work for Global Food Industries, Inc., a manufacturing company specializing in shelf-stable food products for schools and correctional markets and has been the Executive Director.
In 2002 to 2005, Ms. Joseph served on the Board of Directors of a non-profit organization called We Stand For KIDS, a pilot program in South Carolina for children of incarcerated parents and their families. She also mentored three children participating in the program. When Silent Victims of Crime was founded in 2005, she joined the advisory committee for this organization whose mission is to break the intergenerational cycle of incarceration by leading youth to be college bound, not jail bound.
Bill Ghitis
Bian International LLC CEO
Board Member
Mr. Ghitis is the CEO of BIAN International LLC, a global business advisory company. He supports various CEO’s in the Americas and Europe, adding value by leveraging his unique experiences, capabilities and insights. He also serves on the Board of Directors of distinguished companies as well as start-ups and local charities and universities.
Mr. Ghitis has enjoyed a successful global business career with DuPont and Koch Industries, his last assignment being President of Global Apparel LYCRA® of Koch/Invista.
He has led large global organizations to succeed in highly competitive and changing markets. He has acquired considerable depth of general management experience, global background, cultural appreciation, profit and revenue improvements, brand building, marketing, sales and customer building skills, as well as company restructurings and cost reduction initiatives, consistently growing bottom and top lines of the businesses he led and managed.
Originally from Italy, Mr. Ghitis is fluent in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian and was educated in both the USA and Europe. His roles within DuPont and Invista/Koch have shifted back and forth between the USA, Europe, Latin America and Asia, especially China. he presently resides in the US and has also become a US citizen.
Julian Johnston
Corcoran Group
Board Member
Whether it’s fantastic vacation homes overlooking the sun-kissed waters of Biscayne Bay, or modern condos at the center of Miami’s hottest attractions, Julian Johnston has the expertise to find the home of your dreams. With over twelve years of experience in residential real estate, Julian has become one of the leading waterfront home broker in Miami Beach. In 2012, Julian achieved the record highest sales price for a condo in Florida, being $25,000,000, for PH 1 at the Continuum. In 2013, Julian represented international buyers closing on 2550 Lake Ave for $15,250,000 and 4580 N Bay Road for $20,000,000. With a focus on waterfront homes in the unique Miami Beach islands, he has the resources to find the idyllic property to meet his clients’ needs.
Dr. Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall
Vice Chair of the Miami-Dade County School Board District 2
Board Member
Dr. Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall, a former classroom teacher, principal, and current adult education administrator has made a lifetime of using education to unlock the doors of opportunity for hundreds of students, teachers, and parents. She lived in the Liberty Square housing projects in Miami during the days of segregation. After graduating from Miami Northwestern Senior High School, she matriculated at Tuskegee Institute, Nova University, Barry University and Florida International University (FIU), completing her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, and several Master-level certifications. As the first chairperson of the Governor’s Commission on African American Affairs, she convened meetings throughout the state to listen to the concerns of Florida’s citizens and to direct pro-active events to positively influence decision-makers, and support the overall goals of the Commission. Dr. Bendross-Mindingall was elected as the State Representative for District 109 where she served from 2000-2008.
Dr. Bendross-Mindingall’s leadership, advocacy and list of “firsts” has been publicly acknowledged by newspapers, magazine articles, plaques and trophies and other unique awards bestowed by national and international organizations. As a proactive leader, she developed a male-role model program, a project to increase attendance and a welfare-to-work program among others, long before local, state, and national politicians saw the value in her approach. On, November 17th, 2015, Dr. Dorothy Bendross-Minidngall became the first African-American woman elected Vice Chair for the Miami-Dade County School Board. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the Miami-Dade County School Board District 2, where she continues to serve as an example of a strong, courageous, tenacious leader whose thorough collaboration and commitment advocates on the behalf of those who might otherwise not be heard.
Tim Carr
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Board Member
Tim Carr is a proven and consistent health care professional and pharmacist who has delivered well above expectations. Currently, he is a National and Regional Account Executive for the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. He is experienced in multiple health industry channels, including the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sectors. Winning over twenty different awards during his impressive thirty-years plus career, he has distinguished himself in national, regional, Federal and state markets. In regards to Carr joining SVC’s Board of Directors, Tinkerbell said, “I think he’s one of the more amazing individuals I know. If you give him a project he takes over and goes out of his way to make sure it’s a success. He’s been volunteering with us for the last year and will make a great addition to our Board.”