James M. Devaney - Ph.D., President, Chief Executive Officer, and Founder - Dr. Devaney has been President and Chief Executive Officer of AHED since founding the Company in 1998. Dr. Devaney has over twenty-seven years of experience in private post-secondary vocational education. He has been a school director and president of one of the largest culinary colleges in the country as well as a leader and spokesman for private vocational education in Washington, DC and Albany, New York. He served as an advisor to New York's Governor George Pataki on private post-secondary schools. Dr. Devaney holds numerous degrees, including a Ph.D. in Finance and a M.S. in School Administration from Pace University.
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Carolyn Moffett - Vice President – Ms. Moffett has over twenty five years of experience in private post-secondary vocational education. She has been a school director, and leader and spokeswomen for private vocation education on the federal, state and local government. She served as the state representative for Post-secondary Schools to US Department of Education – Title IV – Region 2 liaison group. Ms Moffett also served both as a negotiator for the reauthorized Higher Education Act ( HEA) of 1993 and as a member of the of the U.S. Department of Education’s refund reform focus group. She formerly served as president of the New York State Coalition of Schools. Ms. Moffett has B.S. in Business from Marymount Manhattan College and an MBA from Baruch College New York.
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James Hannagan - Chief Financial Officer – Mr. Hannagan has been CFO of AHED since 2006.  Mr. Hannagan has over 40 years experience in finance, accounting, financial management and control, cash management and treasury operations across a variety of industries.  He oversees the financial operation of AHED and assisted in the completion of the acquisition of Madison Media Institute.  Mr. Hannagan holds a B.S. in Accounting from Seton Hall University. 
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Guary Bernadelle - Financial Analyst – Mr. Bernadelle has been with AHED since 2003.  During his tenure, he has served as Vice President and Interim President and currently serves as Vice President/Director of Finance of Rockford Business College.  Under his leadership as interim president, he opened and oversaw the construction of a state-of-the-art Learning Center for Rockford Business College in Rockford, Illinois.  He also assisted in the acquisition of Madison Media Institute, Madison, Wisconsin.  Guary has over 18 years of experience in teaching, management, accounting, foreign currency trading, finance, cash management and budgeting.  He holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Long Island University, NY.

Teresa Durickas - Director of Distance Learning - Ms. Durickas has many years of experience managing people, products, and services, both in the state of Florida, and in New England. She was the General Manager of Zachary Software, an international software company that was #132 on the Inc 500 list of fastest growing companies in 1996. Ms. Durickas then spent over 10 years at Schiller International University developing both graduate and undergraduate online programs. As Schiller’s Director of Distance Learning she worked on curriculum development, accreditation of new programs, articulation agreements, instructional design, faculty training, student orientation, and quality control. She teaches online courses in HR Management and International Business. Ms. Durickas has a BA in Italian and French from Emmanuel College in Massachusetts, and an MBA in International Business from Schiller International University in Florida.

Stephen Tave - Director - Mr. Tave joined AHED in the spring of 2008 with over 24 years of private post-secondary education experience. He spent eight years as President and Director for a company that owned and operated business and technical schools in and around New York City. Then he became Director at the Art Institute of New York City. During the more than five years he spent there he increased enrollment from 350 to more than 1100 students and revenues from $4 million to $16 million. He then became part-owner and Vice President of the Institute of Culinary Education and set-up the career school marketing, infrastructure and foundation for what has become a nationally recognized career training program with over 30,000 students annually in their career and avocational programs. He is currently a member of the Federal Legislative Committee and the Grassroots Committee for the Career College Association (CCA.) Mr. Tave is a graduate of Brooklyn College with a degree in psychology.
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