Claudia A. Gentner leads marketing and business development for an architectural firm that specializes in designing libraries, churches, and museums. Current projects in New Jersey include the new Franklin Township , Mount Olive, Glen Rock, Livingston, Wood-Ridge, Chester and Holmdel libraries.

She served until 2003 as Chief Information Officer of Lee Hecht Harrison, the global career transition consulting firm headquartered in Woodcliff Lake , NJ, with offices in over 180 locations.

As CIO and member of the Executive Committee at Lee Hecht Harrison, Gentner conceived, launched and championed new businesses that had information technology components, specifically LHH@HOME and ExecuPlanet. She represented the firm to major customers and prospects, particularly among the Fortune 1000. Her responsibilities included a wide range of information services such as Sydney , the corporate Intranet, and LHH’s Career Resource Network, an extranet used by over 100,000 clients annually. She hosted a 12-part cable TV series and has written for a variety of publications.

Gentner joined LHH in 1997 with the acquisition of Seagate Associates, a New Jersey-based career transition consulting firm she co-founded in 1983. There, she led the industry by establishing information services as a critical component of the outplacement process and started a world-class Business Information Center to serve both clients and consultants. She had an active role in the growth of the largest career transition network, Outplacement International, a corporation owned by independent outplacement firms, serving as its President from 1991-92.

A native of New Jersey , Gentner was graduated from Rutgers School of Communication, Information & Library Studies with an MLS in Information Science. A librarian by profession, she has worked in public libraries and in special libraries and heads the Rutgers SCILS Advisory Board. She is a member of the American Library Association, the Special Libraries Association, and the New Jersey Library Association, as well as the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Marketing Committee. She has been a Board member both of the Bergen-Passaic Regional Library Cooperative – the predecessor of BCCLS and PALS – and the Printmaking Council of New Jersey.

Gentner served as President of the Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots and was instrumental in starting On Eagle’s Wings, an ecumenical airplane ministry in remote areas of Canada . She travels most summers to teach in a Dogrib Indian village in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

Gentner lives in Glen Rock, NJ, with her husband Ken who is an IBM mergers and acquisitions executive.