Board of Directors
Julian Johnston
The Corcoran Group, Broker Associate
Board Chairman
Whether it’s a stunning vacation home overlooking the pristine waters of Biscayne Bay or a modern contemporary condo at the center of Miami’s trendiest attractions, Julian Johnston has the expertise to represent the best real estate in South Florida. Julian brings over two decades of experience selling luxury real estate as a leading Miami Beach waterfront home broker, and alongside his indelible team, has done more than $5 billion in sales to date. Julian was named Corcoran’s #1 real estate broker in Miami Beach and Miami-Dade County for 2022, with over $900,000,000 in total annual sales in 2021. He was also presented with the prestigious President’s Council Award bestowed only to 18 individuals in the top 1% of brokers category nationwide. In addition to his awards and accolades, Julian is consistently ranked amongst the top 1% of the nation’s leading brokers according to The Wall Street Journal. In 2021, The Thousand Real Trends + TomFerry recognized Julian and his team once more as one of the top leading small teams by volume in the United States, ranking #1 in Miami Beach, #2 in Florida, and #7 Nationwide.
Born and raised in Adelaide, Australia, Julian has lived in Miami Beach for 20 years. He is a lifelong athlete who enjoys tennis, golf, skiing, fishing, boating, and of course, the Miami nightlife. Among his philanthropic efforts, Julian serves on the board for Silent Victims of Crimes, an organization providing mentorship, education, and higher-education programs for children with incarcerated parents. Julian graduated from the University of South Australia with a degree in business and a major in real estate.
Tim Carr
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Executive Account Manager
Board Vice Chairman
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.”
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.
Dr. Roberta M. Feldman
University of Illinois, Professor Emerita School of Architecture
Board Treasurer
Roberta Feldman is an architectural educator, activist, and researcher committed to democratic design. She has worked with community leaders in Chicago’s public housing and over fifty community organizations and development corporations in Chicago’s low-income neighborhoods to address their visions for shaping, revitalizing, and preserving their designed environments. Dr. Feldman has been honored for her work including: the Women’s Leadership in Architecture for Activism Award, Architectural Record; the FAIA Latrobe Prize; the Distinguished Service Award, AIA Chicago; the Inaugural Public Interest Design 100; EDRA/Places/Metropolis Award for Research; ACSA Collaborative Practice Award; and the ACD Award for Excellence in Community Design. Roberta Feldman is a Professor Emerita, School of Architecture, and Director Emerita, City Design Center, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
David Massey
Attorney at Law
Board Member
David Massey understands that a company's most important strategic objectives are often achieved, or preserved, through litigation, and that its survival can sometimes 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 creating strategic advantages makes him a valued partner when it really counts. He is a "lawyer's lawyer" who other attorneys often turn to 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 counsel in many high-stakes litigations and arbitrations for clients nationwide. David regularly defends class actions, representing clients in the travel, transportation, telecommunications, and consumer products sectors, defending airlines, cruise lines, automotive manufacturers, mobile telecommunications providers, alcohol beverage suppliers, and beauty care brands. David advises clients in virtually every kind of litigation, including MDLs, receivership actions, product liability, product recalls, intellectual property disputes, COVID-19 litigation, domestic and international distributor terminations, 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 is also an experienced health care litigator and represents many of the largest managed 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 is also experienced in foreign and domestic arbitrations, including with respect to the FAA, the New York Convention, the Inter-American Convention, and matters related to confirmation, enforcement, petitions in aid of arbitration, § 1782 petitions and contempt.
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
Board Member
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.
Bill Ghitis
Bian International LLC, CEO
Board Member
Mr. Ghitis is the Executive Chair of the Board of Modern Meadow Inc., a social impact company devoted to delivering sustainable biomaterials to global industries with the intent to secure a greener future for the planet. He is also the Founder and CEO of BIAN International LLC, a global business advisory company that supports various CEO’s in the Americas and Europe. He is/has served on the Board of Directors of distinguished companies as well as start-ups, local charities and universities.
Mr. Ghitis has enjoyed a successful executive career with DuPont and Koch Industries, his last assignment being President of Global Apparel LYCRA® of Koch/Invista where he led large global organizations to succeed in highly competitive and changing markets, driving superior market growth and financial performance.
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.
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.
Ari Sernik
NPC Financial, Financial Representative
Board Member
Ari Sernik became a social entrepreneur long before he studied the subject. During a 4-month backpacking trip across Southeast Asia after serving in the Israeli army, Ari volunteered with Sunflower Orphanage, a Cambodian group that cares for HIV-positive children. He couldn’t get them out of his mind. So, when back in Florida, he arranged an auction of the children’s artwork, working with a professor from Broward College, where he studied before transferring to FIU.
The $5,000 raised helped the orphanage, while revealing to Ari a career path combining his entrepreneurial energy with his drive to help others. Studying with FIU President Emeritus Modesto A. Maidique helped Ari build competence in bringing community stakeholders together. With FIU colleagues Ari established Ten-Yad (“Give a Hand” in Hebrew), designed to help other children’s charities establish their brand and sell handicrafts. His idea won the “Shark Tank” themed pitch session before the FIU Foundation Board of Directors.
Ari has committed to support other local organizations such as the Nyah Project, which focuses on developing leaders from underserved communities in Miami through transformative experiences abroad. He also serves on the board of FCC Soccer, which use soccer and its convening power to educate boys, girls and young people in values and socio-emotional skills such as resilience and self-worth to become agents of change and thrive within their environments.
In 2024 Ari was named as one of the top 20 professionals under 40 for Brickell Magazine and today, Ari is on a mission to empower individuals, families, and businesses to make informed financial decisions. He provides personalized strategies to help his clients achieve short-term goals and build a solid foundation for long-term aspirations.
Sylvia McQueen
Miami Dade Correction and Rehabilitation, CMO
Board Member
Dr. McQueen, a native from Washington, DC, educated in D.C. public schools and a graduate of the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Medical Technology has 29 years of Correctional Health experiences, serving both jails and prison enterprises. Dr. McQueen possesses extensive expertise in clinical leadership, Credentialing, Quality Assurance and Improvement, Utilization Management, Patient Safety, Mortality and Morbidity reviews, writing of Policies, Procedures, Protocols, and Clinical Algorithms.
In her varied roles as a clinical leader, Dr. McQueen managed multi-million-dollar contracts, supervised several hundred physicians and physician extenders, ensured compliance with client’s policies, directives, rules, regulations as well as with clinical performance standards of the state, federal government, and accrediting bodies.
In addition to the above, Dr. McQueen’s Green Belt Certification in Lean-Six Sigma and MBA training from the Jack Welch Management Institute undergirds her ability to effectively support and promote organizational strategy and plan alignment, Current State Process Mapping and Root Cause Analyses. Her skill set has reputedly and consistently resulted in maximizing patient and public safety, clinical efficiency and cost containment for all stakeholders.
From 1996 to 2018 Dr. McQueen served the largest and oldest private Correctional Healthcare Company (Corizon Health) in various leadership positions. She was tasked with oversight for the provision of clinical services in the Southeastern Region in 1997 through 2009, as Regional Medical Director; as State Medical Director for the Alabama Department of Corrections (2005-2007) and Michigan Department of Corrections (2009-2010); Vice President of Clinical Services (2011 to 2014); Chief Clinical Officer of Mid-Atlantic (2014-2015); Chief Medical Officer (2016 to March 2018).
From December 2018 through September 2019, she served as Chief Medical Officer for Patriot Healthcare, Birmingham, AL. From September 2019 through October 2021, she served as State Medical Director for Centurion Correctional Health, Tennessee Department of Corrections. In November 2021, Dr. McQueen joined Jackson Health Services as their Chief Medical Officer for Miami Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Dr. McQueen received her Medical Degree from Meharry Medical College and is board-certified in Internal Medicine. She serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Meharry Medical College and enjoys staff privileges at Nashville Metro General Hospital in Nashville, Tenn. She is licensed to practice medicine in four states.
Dr. McQueen has been the recipient of multiple professional awards and recognitions such as Top Doctor: Correctional Health, 2022; Women of Distinction 2016; Cambridge Who’s Who Hall of Fame, 2010; Cambridge Who’s Who, 2009; PHS Regional Medical Director of the Year in 2008 and 2010; and Clifford Jacobson Humanitarian Award for Excellence in Patient Care, 1986, to name few.
Dr. McQueen’s additional passions are spending time with her friends and family, serving mankind, teaching, developing young minds, missionary and charity work and traveling the world.