The Team

John R. Sundwall - Treasurer
John is Eric's trusted business partner and father. He served in the Navy in Vietnam, worked for Sperry Univac (now Unisys) and formed Old Kinderhook Integrated with Eric in 1994. He's served on the Kinderhook Town Board and was the Chairman of the Columbia County Conservatives for a time in the nineties. He lives with his wife Susan in Niverville NY, has two other sons and five grandchildren. In 1991 he ran for Treasurer of Columbia County on the Conservative line.

Richard Cooper - Campaign manager
By profession, Mr. Cooper is an export/import manager for a Long Island manufacturer. A graduate of Columbia College, he has been a Candidate for Nassau County Comptroller, and is a former Chair of the Libertarian Party of New York.

James Ostrowski - Campaign Legal Counsel, Adviser and blogger.
James Ostrowski is a trial and appellate lawyer, writer and political consultant in Buffalo, New York. He is the author of Political Class Dismissed: Essays Against Politics and is editor of PoliticalClassDismissed.com, a leading libertarian blog. He was Ron Paul's election lawyer in New York State and is attorney for the plaintiffs in Bordeleau v. State of New York, which seeks to outlaw billions of dollars in cash grants to corporations.

Jeffery Russell - Campaign Petition Coordinator
Mr Russell has been a Libertarian activist for almost 30 years, and has been involved in every Libertarian Party of New York petition drive since 1990. He is a former chair of the Libertarian Party of New York, and was the Libertarian candidate for US Senate in 2006. He is married with 2 children and a dog, and lives in Clifton Park.

John Norris - Electronic Coordinator
Independent Industrial Marketing Consultant:
Mr. Norris has over 15 years of sales & marketing experiece in technology with Fortune 500 companies like MCI/WorldCom and S&P 500 leader, Frontier Communications. He is a keen listener and negotiator. Mr. Norris lives in Loudonville, NY with Jacqueline Wojtusik and their three sons. He brings to the Sundwall Team experience from both the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds. He has coached basketball for his sons' teams and has spent a 5 year term on a local planning board.

Chris Edes - Deputy Campaign Manager
Mr. Edes is the current Vice-Chair of the Libertarian Party of New York and is both the co-founder and the current Chair of the Greater Rochester Libertarian Party.

Mr. Edes is an IT specialist, and was educated at Carnegie Melon University.

Michael Cannella - Webmaster
Mr. Cannella studied philosophy with the candidate in Copenhagen at Denmark's International Study Program. He overcame his education in public policy to careereen from Writer to Trainer to Network Security Professional. He lives in Metropolitan Detroit with the most wonderful housemates he could imagine: his wife, Meredith, son Luca, and feline companions Freja and Attitash.