Honorees
2020 HeartShare Visionary Award
The HeartShare Visionary Award is presented to a person whose work honors our past, shapes our present and transforms our future by building a foundation for success for HeartShare and the community it supports.
The HeartShare Visionary Award is presented to a person whose work honors our past, shapes our present and transforms our future by building a foundation for success for HeartShare and the community it supports.
Chris Perry
President of Global Sales, Marketing and Client Solutions
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc .
President of Global Sales, Marketing and Client Solutions
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc .
Chris Perry serves as President of Global Sales, Marketing and Client Solutions at Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR). With over $4 billion in revenues and part of the S&P 500® Index, Broadridge is a global Fintech leader enabling corporate governance, powering capital markets, and helping wealth and asset management firms grow worldwide. The company provides communications, technology, data and analytics solutions around the world. Broadridge processes more than US $5 trillion in fixed income and equity trades daily, delivers essential communications for more than 5,000 brands to over 75 percent of North American households and manages shareholder voting in 90 countries. The company employs more than 10,000 associates in 18 countries worldwide.
Chris joined Broadridge in 2014 and as a member of the Executive Committee, he oversees all client and market-facing activities globally and is responsible for delivering the company’s annual sales targets spanning all business units and product lines. During his tenure, he has implemented both strategic and tactical programs aimed at achieving world-class service in customer support, account management, client training, lead generation and marketing. He has also been a driving force behind the transformation of the organization from a portfolio of companies to an enterprise cloud-based services provider. Broadridge has enjoyed five years of consecutive record setting sales under Chris' leadership.
Over the previous 14 years, Chris has held numerous management and commercial roles at Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), and its predecessor, Thomson Financial. There he served as Global Managing Director of Risk for the Financial and Risk Division, where he was responsible for overseeing Governance, Risk and Compliance, as well as Pricing and Reference services. He was accountable for all aspects of management--including P&L responsibility--for approximately $700 million in annual revenue during an active acquisition and growth phase. Previously, he served as President of Global Sales and Account Management of the Financial and Risk Division overseeing 4,000 professionals worldwide. Earlier in his career, Chris worked in institutional trading and retail brokerage.
In January 2019, Chris was elected to the Board of Directors of the Financial Services Institute (FSI), founded in 2004 with the mission to ensure that all individuals have access to competent and affordable financial advice, products and services. Chris served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey for over ten years and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for NPower, an organization that provides underprivileged youths and military veterans with the opportunity to build tech skills and achieve their potential. In addition, he is a sponsor of the Women on Wall Street Association, a New York-based business leadership organization that helps accelerate careers of women in financial services and unites business professionals in support of equality, executive leadership and breaking the glass ceiling. Until October 2018, Chris served as Chairman of BritishAmerican Business, a membership organization that enables transatlantic commerce, and continues to serve on their Executive Board.
Chris holds a B.S. in Finance and Economics from Northern Illinois University and an MBA in Marketing from Lewis University.
The HeartShare Leadership, Innovation & Impact Award
The first and only HeartShare Leadership, Innovation & Impact Award honors 50 years of dedication to assisting New York’s most vulnerable children, adults and families.
William R. Guarinello
President and Chief Executive Officer
HeartShare Human Services of New York
President and Chief Executive Officer
HeartShare Human Services of New York
William Guarinello was named President and Chief Executive Officer of HeartShare Human Services of New York in 1993. Bill joined the non-profit human services agency as a caseworker in 1970. He was named Executive Director in 1985 and Executive Vice President in 1987. Bill’s “ahead of the curve” management style anticipates changes in the needs of the community, as well as issues that may affect clients, has been the key to HeartShare’s success.
HeartShare was founded in 1914. Under Bill’s leadership, its goal of serving the vulnerable of all ages and backgrounds has grown so that, today, it provides services to more than 35,000 at-risk New Yorkers annually at over 100 program locations throughout Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx.
In 2014, HeartShare completed an affiliation with St. Vincent’s Services (now HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services) that provides foster care, adoption and residential programs, family preservation and unification programs, day services and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities, mental health and substance abuse clinics and homeless shelters for single mothers and their children. HeartShare programs include early childhood education and therapeutic services for children with developmental disabilities, including autism; programs for school-age children and adults with autism and intellectual and/or developmental disabilities; comprehensive health care clinics for children and adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities; residential and case management services for individuals and their families affected by HIV/AIDS; after school and weekend programs for school-age youngsters, as well as for the community, and Energy Assistance programs for low-income individuals and households.
In addition to his position at HeartShare, Bill is Chairman of Brooklyn Community Board 11. He is President of the Fort Hamilton Citizens Action Committee that links the civilian and military communities. He is Chairman of St. Bernadette Catholic Academy. He also chairs the Board of Directors of New York Integrated Network (NYIN), an innovative not-for-profit that is a collaboration between I/DD agencies preparing to transition to managed care.
Bill has served on the Boards of the Interagency Council of Development Disabilities Agencies, the Boy Scouts of America, and The Brooklyn Developmental Disabilities Council and as President of the Visitation Academy Fathers Club. He is the recipient of many honors and awards from countless civic and professional organizations.
Bill’s leadership in the helping professions combines hands-on experience and advanced academic studies. He is a graduate of Xaverian High School and St. Francis College, and a graduate of The Institute for Non-Profit Management, Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from St. Francis College and an M.S. in Counseling Psychology from Nova Southeastern University.
With his recognized expertise on urban family issues, Bill has appeared on radio and television, and been profiled in many publications.
2020 Heart of a Champion Award
The Heart of a Champion Award is given to an individual whose commitment to family and community transforms the landscape for underserved and marginalized populations.
Deborah Norville
Anchor
"Inside Edition"
Anchor
"Inside Edition"
Two-time Emmy® Award winner Deborah Norville is anchor of "Inside Edition," the nation’s number one daily newsmagazine. Ratings jumped 15 percent the week Norville joined the program and have remained high ever since. "Inside Edition" is among the top five television shows in first-run syndication and reaches a daily audience of just under 5 million viewers.
Norville, the longest serving anchor on American television, is a member of the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. She joined "Inside Edition" in 1995 from CBS News where she was anchor and correspondent. Deborah is the former co-host of NBC’s “Today” and anchor of NBC “News at Sunrise.” During her career she has hosted the primetime “Deborah Norville Tonight” on MSNBC, the national “Deborah Norville Show” on the ABC Talk Radio Network and been an anchor and reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago. She began her reporting career at WAGA-TV in Atlanta, while still a student at the University of Georgia, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude, First Honor Graduate with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
Norville is a best-selling author and lecturer. Among her books is “Thank You Power: Making the SCIENCE of Gratitude Work for YOU” (Thomas Nelson) which detailed the connection between gratitude and enhanced cognitive function and energy. “Thank You Power” was a New York Times best-seller and a best-seller in South Korea. It has been published in more than a dozen languages. Deborah is also a contributor to the popular “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, and the author of several other self-help books as well as two best-selling children’s books and a number of books featuring knit and crochet patterns.
Norville is on the board of the Broadcasters Foundation of America. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Women Corporate Directors, and the New York Women’s Forum and is a past board member of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York and the Rita Hayworth (Alzheimer’s) Steering Committee. She is married and the mother of three.
