Robert L. Scardamalia is currently President of RLS Demographics, Inc., a firm specializing in the use and analysis of economic and demographic data for private and public applications. He is a professional demographer and has more than 30 years of experience using Census and related economic and demographic data for marketing, business attraction, and public sector program management. He is an expert on the sources of demographic data for use in public and private sector application and a recognized expert in population forecasting developing a cohort-component projections model used by the New York City Department of City Planning and the State of New Hampshire. Bob has a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from Penn State University and a Master's Degree in Demography from Georgetown University. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the Sociology Department at the State University of New York at Albany.