Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • June 2, 2010 Franklin Lakes Borough Republicans uncontested in primary by Frank J. McMahon Franklin Lakes Councilman Frank Bivona and incumbent Republican Councilwoman Nathalie Lota and Republican Club nominee Frank J. Pedone are the only Republican candidates in the June 8 primary. They will be seeking the Republican nomination to run in the general election this November. Bivona was the lone Republican candidate to file a nominating petition to seek election to the position of mayor. Lota and Pedone, who is running in place of incumbent Councilman Steven Marcus who decided not to seek reelection, are seeking their party’s nomination to run for council. All three candidates were nominated by the Franklin Lakes Republican Club after Mayor Maura DeNicola indicated that she was not going to seek reelection as the mayor of Franklin Lakes but, instead, seek election as a Republican member of the Bergen County Board of Freeholders. Bivona and his wife Maureen have been Franklin Lakes residents for 15 years, They have two children ages 15 and 17. He received a bachelor’s degree from Adelphi University and has been active in the borough’s recreation programs as a coach in girls’ and boys’ softball, baseball, and basketball. He has also been active with the Academy of the Most Blessed Sacrament, where he has served on its advisory board and co-directed the school’s basketball program. Recently retired, his prior work experience was primarily in the bond insurance business where he worked with municipalities country-wide on the issuance of debt obligations. For the last five years, he was employed as chief executive officer of FGIC Corporation. Before joining FGIC, he was vice chairman and chief financial officer of the Ambac Financial Group for 18 years. Prior to Ambac, he was with Citibank in various finance positions, including CFO of Citibank’s global insurance division. He has served on several charitable boards, including Junior Achievement and the YMCA of Greater New York. Lota is a lifetime resident of Bergen County and has two children: a freshman at Immaculate Heart Academy and a seventh grader at the Academy of the Most Blessed Sacrament where Lota has served as president of the HomeAcademy Partnership and as a member of the Parish-School Advisory Board. She graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in biology and a minor in chemistry. While studying at the university, she played on the golf team for four years. Upon graduation, she attended the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Dental School, and graduated in 1991 with her doctorate degree. She subsequently entered a one-year general practice residency at Saint Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Paterson. After completing her residency program, she was asked to stay on at the hospital where she treated the employees and their families and served the indigent population of Paterson. Pedone is a current elected member of the Republican County Committee and has been an officer of the borough’s Republican Club from 2007 to the present time. He served as Republican Club president in 2006. He has lived in the borough since 1999. Before retiring this year, he was president and chief executive officer of Infotech Systems, a company that deals with computer retrieval. Prior to that, he operated Pedone Associates, an executive search firm he created. Prior to that, he was the vice president of listed trading for Lumbard Nelson. For a four-year period, he was a research analyst for Donaldson & Generette, where he covered the energy industry. 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