Melissa Gasnick Cloeter
Melissa Gasnick Cloeter is the President and Founder of WINC- the Women’s Initiative Network & Connection, LLC. She started her new venture after working for RDD Associates as the Marketing Assistant and Garden State Woman Media and Events Company as the VP of Sales & Marketing. “I recognized a real need for corporations and firms to bring in an outside consultant as they focus on the importance of retaining, developing and promoting a diverse workforce. Additionally, as my work with Women Business Owners developed, I realized a need for solid marketing direction and solutions as their companies flourished. I also assist organizations determine their market niche and develop a strategic marketing plan accordingly. Based upon my experience and background in sales, marketing, networking and assisting companies with their women’s initiatives, I knew I could confidently and expertly fill these voids; thus WINC.”

Ms. Cloeter is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and has worked for Kellogg’s as a Sales Representative, M&M/MARS as a Territory Accounts Manager, and Span America Medical Supply Company as a Sales Territory Specialist before tackling the demands and needs of her family while developing and growing a family owned business. Her extensive personal community service includes: Board Member of the Long Valley Junior Women’s Club, Project Graduation Committee Member, West Morris Central Football Parent’s Association Board Member, West Morris Central Lacrosse Parent’s Association Board Member, and Co-Chair Fundraiser for St. Mark’s Catholic Church.

Currently, Ms. Cloeter resides in Hackettstown, New Jersey and is on the Board of Directors- YWCA Union County, a Founding Member and Co-Chair of the United Way- Warren County Women’s Leadership Council, Catholic Charities Development Committee Member, Committee Member of “Make Mine a Million $ Business- New Jersey campaign, a Member of the Women’s Fund of New Jersey, Participated in the NJAWBO- Diversity Committee, The Women’s Association – NJPAC, and a member of the Morris County Chamber of Commerce. She is an avid golfer and the mother of a 16 year old son.

Sherri Hieber Day
Sherri Hieber Day is the owner of Art Interests Hooked Rugs which she began in 1998. She designs hooked rug patterns, teaches rug making classes and workshops throughout the United States and Britain and executes one-of-a-kind commissioned pieces. Ms. Hieber Day is an advocate of the mentoring process and helps her students assemble all the necessary skills to design and create works that reflect their ideas. Mentoring goes beyond advising and guiding students; mentoring helps the student identify, develop and nurture his greatest strengths. She emphasizes 'losing the fear' and traveling one's unique path. Ms. Hieber Day is a member of the Green Mountain Rug Makers Guild and the Hunterdon Rug Makers Guild. She has shown her rugs nationally including shows at Louisburg College in Louisburg, North Carolina and Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2002 she was identified as one of the country's important contemporary rug designers at a forum held at the American Museum of Folk Art in New York.

Ms. Hieber Day received her MA from New York University in American Folk Art Studies. She has taught art and art history at the high school level and was coordinator of an off-campus, contemporary art program for Drew University. She has also worked for over twenty years in the educational publishing industry as a photo researcher/editor for Pearson Education, Silver Burdett Ginn, Optical Data Corporation, Simon & Schuster and Globe-Fearon.

Ms. Hieber Day currently serves as the vice-chairperson for the Morris County Trust for Historic Preservation and is serving her fifth year on the board; she is a founder, member and past secretary of the Long Valley Trails Association promoting equestrian activities in Washington Township, Morris County; and a past member, secretary, vice-chairperson, chairperson and advisor to the Washington Township Historic Preservation Commission from 1989 until 2002.

Ms. Hieber Day is an active horsewoman and a member of Spring Valley Hounds in Allamuchy, New Jersey. She also teaches riding to members of the Spring Valley Hounds Pony Club. She resides in Long Valley, New Jersey with her husband and daughter.