Leadership Team

KATIE ALLEN, Chief Marketing Officer at EXTEND Resources, has 19 years of marketing and communications leadership experience across a broad range of disciplines including branding, content marketing, public relations, events and exhibits, and corporate communications. She has worked in a variety of industries including healthcare information technology and services, business process outsourcing, banking, and hospitality.

Katie is a results-oriented leader who develops marketing and communication strategies that enable hi-tech and service oriented companies to meet their organizational objectives. Her expertise in designing, planning and managing targeted, integrated, lead generation campaigns helps fuel sales pipelines and enhance growth. Katie also has a proven track record in developing and executing in-depth communication plans that inform and engage employees, clients, and prospects — in a wide variety of complex situations.

ANTONELLA COMMIATO, CTO and Chief Information Security Officer at EXTEND Resources, has 23 years of IT and information security leadership experience across a range of industries that include legal, environmental, transportation and logistics, and professional services.

Antonella is a take charge leader who excels at aligning IT and information security strategy with enterprise goals. She has a proven track record in guiding critical program and application development and delivery, optimizing processes, managing budgets, building high-performance teams, and implementing strong and effective procedures for change management and communication. With her technological expertise and guidance, companies can support their complex business initiatives, grow their businesses, and implement efficient internal operations.

HOWARD S. HOFFMANN, Chief Executive Officer of EXTEND Resources, is a senior executive with 40 years of financial, operational, and general management experience. Over more than 35 years in the financial services industry and corporate turnaround space, Howard gained extensive experience in financial and operational restructurings and acquisition integration, creditor and government negotiations, litigation management (single plaintiff, class action, and government), tax law, leasing, trade financing, cash management and control, inventory management, accounting, production, distribution, IT, product and brand management, developing and implementing growth strategies, and fostering high performing cultures, both domestically and internationally.

Audrey M. Weinstein

AUDREY M. WEINSTEIN, Vice President & General Counsel, brings more than thirty years of experience to EXTEND Resources as a corporate, transactional and health care attorney. Audrey provides expertise in advising companies and their legal, compliance, and operational departments on their most important management issues. Audrey has also been instrumental in all aspects of the contracting process, including contract negotiation and management, regulatory and licensing matters, development and implementation of quality management, utilization management and compliance programs, third-party and internal audit processes, and corporate governance activities. In addition to Audrey’s success with in-house legal operations improvement and organizational design, she led strategic initiatives in legal/compliance department post-merger integration, process efficiency, and department benchmarking.

Audrey’s expertise in corporate, transactional, regulatory, health care and privacy and security matters, and in identifying potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk, enables her to evaluate a client’s specific needs, assist in the development of comprehensive action plans for resolution, and undertake matter-specific projects to effectively achieve client objectives.

MICHAEL C. YEAGER, Chief Financial Officer at EXTEND Resources, is a hands-on executive with 20 years of experience serving clients in a variety of senior management and consulting roles.  His expertise covers a wide range of industries including healthcare, retail, textiles, consumer products, hospitality, manufacturing, transportation and logistics.

He has considerable experience in both event and liquidity driven crisis situations and the analysis and development of the financial planning and reporting cycle.  Michael is highly skilled in the assessment of contract profitability, development of new business profitability models, working capital management, cash flow control, forecasting and improvement as well as business and product acquisitions and divestitures.  He has an exceptional ability to quickly identify key operational drivers, develop alternatives for performance improvement and lead the change implementation process.  Additionally, Michael has held interim management positions for both public and privately held companies.