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Sheri is the founder and principal owner of Shan Industries, LLC, a holding company that currently operates two manufacturing companies. Accurate Forming, a metal stamping company located in New Jersey and Thermodynamics, a rotational molding company operating in Oklahoma, were acquired from Tyco International in January 2000. In her role as Chairman and CEO, Sheri has expanded the product lines and capabilities of Shan's operating divisions and is working toward additional acquisitions. Sheri is a former owner, CFO, and COO, of Magnetic Data Technologies/DBI, Inc., a $60 million manufacturing group with domestic and international holdings. During her tenure at DBI she engineered the company's acquisition of several other business lines and companies including Kodak's Datatape, a $55+ million company which made high speed tape recording devices for, among other things, the Space Shuttle. Before joining DBI, Sheri was a litigator with the Miami office of Greenberg Traurig. She came to Greenberg Traurig after several years with the Washington and Miami offices of the United States Department of Justice, which she had joined through the Attorney General's Honors Program. Sheri is also the founder of OrloVon, LLC, a real estate development company that was responsible for a 20-unit upscale condominium project in the historic Adams-Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. In August 2001 Sheri was invited to the President's Economic Summit in Waco, Texas, during which time she had a lively and widely quoted discussion with the President on, among other things, Sarbanes-Oxley. Sheri continues her public service today as a Presidential appointee to the National Women's Business Council, a non-partisan commission which advises the President, Congress and the SBA on matters affecting small business. Her board positions include Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Women's Leadership Board, the Center for Women's Business Research and Boardroom Bound, the last an organization dedicated to promoting diversity in the corporate boardroom. She is a frequent speaker on all aspects of entrepreneurialism, mergers and acquisitions and accessing capital and spends a significant amount of time supporting and mentoring other women business owners.In March 2002, the Women's Business Enterprise National Council recognized Sheri at the WBE's annual gala as an Outstanding Woman Business Owner. Sheri was selected in March 2003 by Enterprising Woman Magazine as the "Enterprising Woman of the Year" and now serves as a member of their Advisory Board. Sheri has been chosen by the Star Group to be honored in May 2005 as one of the "Leading Woman Entrepreneurs of the World." Recently Sheri participated in a Businesswomen's Summit hosted in Riga, Latvia at which 50 senior executive women from Fortune 500 companies, and from small and medium-sized American businesses were matched with women from the Baltic and Scandinavian Countries. Following the Summit, Sheri was pleased to host two businesswomen from Ukraine on the return portion of the program held in November 2004 in Washington, DC. Philanthropy is a significant part of Sheri's life's work. Among other causes she supports and serves she is on the board of the Kristi House in Miami, a refuge and advocacy resource for young victims of sexual abuse that is housed in the Orlowitz Children's Advocacy Center of which she is a Founder. She is also active on behalf of the International Humanitarian Campaign Against the Exploitation of Children, an organization dedicated to the global eradication of child sexual trafficking, and is an Ambassador to The Global Coalition to End Human Trafficking NOW. | 