About
Selma Archer
Selma Archer has Juris Doctorate and Master of Business Administration degrees from Rutgers University.
While in law school, her writing and analytical abilities earned her a seat on the school’s Law Journal and two American Jurisprudence Awards.
She received one of the awards for her legal research and writing skills and the other for her trial advocacy skills. Selma has additionally earned Executive Leadership certifications from Harvard Business School, UCLA Graduate School of Management, and the Thunderbird International Consortium.
Her legal background includes working as a legal associate in a large Wall Street law firm, as well as in a small New Jersey employment and labor law boutique firm. Her employment law experiences allowed her to build her expertise in assisting employers in avoiding litigation pitfalls and identifying opportunities to strengthen workplace policies to improve employee satisfaction and engagement.
Her legal career also includes her tenure as Legal Counsel to a New Jersey governor where she held oversight for the Department of Labor and the Department of Human Services. Partnering with state commissioners, agencies, and concerned constituent groups, she developed and implemented programs to improve community services for disadvantaged people across the state. Most notably, she led a Mental Health Committee tasked with developing and promoting initiatives to meet the growing demands for mental health support and resources.
She has been honored by both the YMCA and the National Urban League for her perseverance and commitment to community service. Selma’s business background includes heading the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion departments for several large, global organizations. A significant part of her work involved employee relations. She proactively implemented initiatives to promote a more open corporate culture and facilitated relationships between employees and the company.
For the past several years, she has focused on employee relations consulting as well as caregiver advocacy. Having served many years (10+) as a family caregiver for her mother, Selma is well-versed in the many aspects of caring for an aging, disabled loved one. She had to juggle her full-time work responsibilities while caring for her mother from a long distance. As her mother’s health gradually declined, she spent more and more time locally caring for her, until her mother passed away in 2017. Selma currently lives in California with her family.
Zack Demopoulos
Zack Demopoulos has over 36 years of diverse experience working in the corporate and small business environments. His expertise spans across sales management; executive leadership; human resources; diversity, equity, and inclusion; small business; board leadership; and caregiving. After receiving his B.S. degree in biology at the University of North Carolina Charlotte and conducting masters work in pharmacology at Florida A&M University, Zack worked in the pharmaceutical industry taking on leadership roles in sales, HR, and DE&I.
As an HR leader, Zack built a reputation as a true business partner working with alllevels of leadership including the C-suite. As an internal DE&Icoach, he partnered with the top four levels of management responsible for a sales force of over 30,000 employees. He also implemented sustainable global initiatives in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. As an independent DE&I consultant, Zack helped private and public sector organizations identify their gapsin leveraging diversity to achieve their business imperatives.
Zack founded and operated a home care agency for 13 years, helping over 500 families care for their family loved ones, and hiring over 700 professional caregivers to provide that care. He became a Certified Senior Advisor and spoke locally and nationally about caregiving while launching a podcast titled Raising ‘Rents (as in parents) that has received over 20,000 downloads.
He served a leadership role on the New Jersey Home Health Service Association Board acting as a staunch advocate for caregivers and testifying at health senate committee meetings on their behalf. He currently has a leadership role on the Brothers ofColor in Pharma Board.
Zack continues his advocacy work in bothHR and caregiving today. Zack was drafted into a long distance caregiver for his father when he had a stroke and needed help with activities of daily living for six years until he passed away in 2011. During this time Zack traveled back and forth to North Carolina while holding down a full-time high-level leadership role for his organization.
Today, Zack does the same for his mother who also lives in North Carolina. Zack with his wife, Phyllis, reside in New Jersey and spend significant time with their family who live nearby and include rescue dogs, three adult children, their spouses, and grandchildren.