1. David J. Watson, Juris Doctor| 400 Broadway, #577, Troy, NY 12181 | 518.366.8063 |
synakkah@nycap.rr.com synakkah@gmail.com watsonmanagementgroupllc@gmail.com
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GOAL:
I am an innovative mission-driven strategic nonprofit executive with over two-decades of
experience in senior management championing a state-wide membership and meeting their
diverse needs, who wishes to continue my career in nonprofit executive management.
SUMMARY OF COMPETENCIES:
 Board Governance and Training
 Membership Services and Development
 Membership Marketing
 Human Resource Management
 Project Management
 Policy Development and Implementation
 Operations and Administration
 Lobbying and Advocacy
 Entrepreneurial Development
 Strategic Planning and Implementation
 Training, both virtual and direct
 Mergers and Acquisitions
 Legal Representation
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE:
Senior Vice President, Attorney & Legal Advisor, The Legal Accountability & Compliance
Services, the New York Council of Nonprofits, Inc. (formerly the Council of Community
Services of New York State, Inc.), January 1991 to October 6, 2014
Board Governance and Training | Membership Marketing | Membership Services and
Development |Founded the Legal Accountability & Compliance Services Center
Human Resource Management | Membership Services and Development | Operations
and Administration | Policy Development and Implementation | Project Management |
Strategic Planning and Implementation | Provided management assistance of a legal
preventative nature to a diverse Membership
Entrepreneurial Development | Training, both virtual and direct | Provided intense direct
training of Boards of Directors as a founding trainer for the New York State Board Training
Consortium
Mergers and Acquisitions | Policy Development and Implementation | Co-founded the
NYCON method of facilitated affiliations between nonprofit corporations
Lobbying and Advocacy | Responsible for advocacy, lobbying and amendment to the New
York State Nonprofit Revitalization Act and intimately familiar with all of its various mandated
changes to nonprofit corporations
Founding Partner, Watson & West, PLLC, May 2004 to October 22, 2014
Legal Representation | Represented nonprofit corporate clients in a Corporation and
General Counsel nature, across the State of New York
Board Governance and Training | Human Resource Management | Membership
Marketing | Operations and Administration | Policy Development and Implementation
| Drafted policies concerning internal corporate matters (conflicts of interest, corporate
compliance, and employment and internal governance matters) and Intervened and
Negotiated any and all external matters (contracts and lease matters, corporate matters,
formation, labor law, and human resource)

2. David J. Watson, Juris Doctor| 400 Broadway, #577, Troy, NY 12181 | 518.366.8063 |
synakkah@nycap.rr.com synakkah@gmail.com watsonmanagementgroupllc@gmail.com
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Entrepreneurial Development | Mergers and Acquisitions | Conducted various
acquisitions, affiliations, and mergers
Strategic Planning and Implementation | Provided strategic planning on matters with
competitors, Tax-compliance and Tax-exemption and Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles matters
Training, both virtual and direct | Provided training both at the Board and staff and staff-
leadership level
General Counsel
The New York Council of Nonprofits, Inc. (formerly the Council of Community Services of New
York State, Inc.), and its subsidiaries Innovative Charitable Initiatives, Inc. and Council
Services Plus, Inc., January 2001 to October 6, 2014
Board Governance and Training | Human Resource Management | Legal Representation
| Lobbying and Advocacy | Membership Services and Development | Membership
Marketing | Policy Development and Implementation | Project Management |
Responsible for the provision of Corporation Counsel Representation to the Corporation and
its subsidiaries in all internal and external matters, while also being an integral part of the
Corporation’s Senior Management Team
Attorney, Law Offices of Robert M. Jacon, Esq., June 1995 - June 1999
Entrepreneurial Development | Legal Representation | Responsible for a variety of
matters relative to the general practice of law
EDUCATION, ADMISSIONS AND AFFILIATIONS:
Albany Law School of Union University, Albany, NY; Juris Doctor | The College of Saint Rose,
Albany, NY; Bachelor of Arts
New York State Bar, January 1994-2014
New York State Bar Association