Prior to joining Binney & Smith, Strauss served as Vice President, Marketing and Sales and as General Manager, Consumer Goods Division, of St. Regis Paper Company, West Nyack, New York. Before joining St. Regis, he served 14 years with Warner Lambert Company, Morris Plains, New Jersey earning increasing responsibility before becoming Vice President Sales of their Personal Products Division. Pervious experience included several positions with Kraft Foods.

Strauss currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Washington, DC based Arts Education Partnership, the Foundation Board of Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA and the Board of the New York City based Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Inc. He is a former Director of the National School Supply and Equipment Association (NSSEA) and a member of the Executive Committee of Minsi Trails Council of the Boy Scouts of America

Strauss and his wife, Carol, reside in Brookside, New Jersey. They have three grown children – Mark, Gregory and Christopher.

Lynn Berkowitz is the Director of Education at the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, a position she has held since 1996. Before coming to the Allentown Art Museum, she taught and was coordinator of the undergraduate and graduate Fibers Department at Marywood College, Scranton, PA, from 1992 – 1996. During her tenure at Marywood, she served as Interim Director of the Contemporary and Suraci Galleries, 1994 – 1995. From 1989 – 1991, Lynn served as Gallery Director for contemporary crafts at the Luckenbach Mill Gallery of Historic Bethlehem, Inc., Bethlehem, PA.

Berkowitz received her BFA in Crafts: Woodworking, summa cum laude, from Kutztown University; she received her MFA in Fibers from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University. In addition to her appointment as Chair of the Museum Division of the Pennsylvania Art Education Association, Lynn has served or is presently serving on the boards of Satori, Northern Lehigh School District Education Foundation, Arts-in-Education Coalition, Lehigh Valley Arts Council and the Visual Arts Committee of Mayfair, an Allentown, PA, community arts festival.

Lynn has been actively involved in organizing Allentown Art Museum /various community collaborations since 1998 including the securing of funding, doing the project and evaluating the project. These extended artist residencies have included or presently include working with the Lehigh County Prison, The Allentown Boys and Girls Club, The Art Academy of William Allen High School, South Mountain Middle School, Moravian Academy and The Program for Women and Families.

Lynn and her husband Bob reside in Slatedale, Pennsylvania.