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Dieter Kemp, Chairman of DPK Consulting Inc, is a business and marketing consultant to Japanese, German and U.S. companies in the area of food, fashion, fine art, and cosmetics. Mr. Kemp began his career in real estate development and investment, and has been a director and shareholder of various companies over the past 30 years. He has worked in Germany, France, Kuwait, London and the U.S., and has a wide-range of business interests in Asia and the Middle East. As a marketing entrepreneur, he has been instrumental in launching many products to overseas markets; most notably, he was behind the huge international success of the Wonder Bra, which he aided to introduce in Japan and Korea. Mr. Kemp’s recent appoint as Chairman of the Board of Peter James Gallery is to develop the company’s interests in the Middle East and Asia. .






Salih Kilinc " Kamu" Class of 2007
Kamu is the CEO of SKALA International Holding which is the distributor of various Corporations at Middle East including Turkey, Israel, Azerbaijan, Kirgishistan and Turkmenistan. These Corporations are Nikon Optical Instruments from Japan, Spectra Precision from USA and Thales from France. SKALA provides complete electronics, optical and mechanical solutions to various customers including both government and private enterprises. SKALA also have a manufacturing facility at China.

Kamu likes golf and fishing and is also a private pilot, and dreams to travel the entire world with his own aircraft one day.

During his activities at Kale Rotary Club at Ankara – Turkey, Kamu worked at various projects, including the supply of an Ambulance by a joint activity with a Rotary Club at Frankfurt-Germany. He also successfully worked on supplying sufficient funding for the reconstruction of a primary school after the main earth-quake which happened on year 2000 at Turkey. He is married and has son a young son.




Josef Klee Class of 1977
For over a decade, NY Rotarian Josef Klee, a former UN official and advisor to the Mission of the Holy See to the UN, and his lovely wife Uda, a retired attorney, have quietly hosted the monthly, 3rd Wednesday UN Breakfast Meetings for Rotarians and their guests atop the German Mission Building and its breathtaking view of the East River, UN Headquarters and surroundings.
Josef has a unique talent in recruiting interesting speakers from among his former UN colleagues and acquaintances, while Uda assists her husband by selflessly awaiting the last arrival and collecting the fees before joining the group in the conference room.

Josef's chairmanship is professional but also friendly and unassuming. The only problem Josef regularly encounters is to adjourn the lively debates by the 10:00 deadline. Uda's patience and warmth add to the wonderful atmosphere created by a combination of intellectual stimulus, tasty food and pleasant service. Rotarians with an interest in politics, should absolutely attend one of these early morning meetings. Josef and Uda are models for all of us in their practice of warm Rotarian friendship, modesty and true "service above self."





Freedlee Kaplan Class of 2007
Fredlee grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, and moved to New York for graduate school. For professional and personal reasons, she stayed in NY and that's why we are lucky to have her as a fellow NY Rotarian. She graduated from Boston University with a degree in Psychology and earned two masters degrees at Columbia and Rutgers Universities respectively. She completed post­graduate studies in individual, psychodynamic psychotherapy for five years in New York. Following that training she completed post-graduate training in Marital and Family Therapy for 7 years in New York and Washington, DC.

Professionally, Fredlee practices family, couples and individual psychotherapy in private practice in Manhattan and Ridgewood, NJ. Her licenses are in Clinical Social Work, Psychology, and Marital and Family Therapy. For 21 years until 2004, she supervised psychiatric residents and psychology interns in Family Therapy in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Medical Center in NY. She continues to consult to businesses, educational institutions and hospitals in family and systems intervention.

Her interests include playing tennis, attending theater and musical performances and traveling "around the world." However, "Family relationships are primary for me," she says, "and that is followed by my interest in charitable work." When her brother, Barry, introduced her to his Rotary Club in Danvers, Mass. where he is a Board member, she decided to follow up with our New York Club and has been finding this experience very fulfilling and enjoys working with like-minded people.

"I am most interested in children's health and development. Projects that involve children through Rotary are compelling for me. Therefore, Vocation Day and Gift of Life are very important."
A source of pride for Fredlee is "the good relationship with my stepchildren, step grandchildren, and my first family, as well as my private practice which is thriving, challenging and extremely rewarding."
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Wener Kobelt Class of 1959

Our Longest Serving NY Rotarian

If your year of birth is after 1959, you may be interested to know that Werner Kobelt has been in the Rotary Club of New York for more years than you have been on this earth!

Werner is chairman of Nipkow & Kobelt, Inc. This is a garment & textile importing company that was founded by his father in the 1930’s. N&K began as a silk importing company and as expanded to man-made silk type fabrics and piece goods. Most of his imports come from Asia. The importing business is a natural for Werner because he was born in Japan, went to college in Shanghai during WWII and was Swiss Citizen at birth. He attended the French Jesuit University in Shanghai. (At age 9, he left Japan to attend boarding School in Switzerland.)
Werner was the son of Arnold is an only child. At French Jesuit University in Shanghai, he majored in Political Science and Economics and this was followed with a law degree. He is fluent in Japanese, German, French & English, of course.
As a young man, Werner served in the US Army which included a tour at the Pentagon. Following his active duty, he served in the reserve under the command of Julius Ochs Adler, the owner of the New York Times. Most of us only hear about notable past members but Werner served in our Rotary Club with Thomas Watson of IBM Fame, JC Penney and Norman Vincent Peale.
His NY Rotary accomplishments include serving many years as a director on the board plus as 1st and 2nd Vice President. He also served two terms as a trustee of our Foundation. After the required time off, he was he was re-elect for another 3 year term where is presently serving.
Werner is married to Nora and together they have raised four children. Son Arnold works in the business with Werner and is the company President. Arnold lives in Rye, NY. His two sisters and brother live in Whitefish, MT, Fort Collins, CO & Winchester, MA. A former, avid tennis player, Werner has switched to playing golf with Nora. They are members of the Westchester Country Club in Westchester County. He proudly tells us that Nora recently hit a “Hole-in-One” at the 4th hole of the Westchester Golf Club.
At the next meeting, extend your hand to Werner and touch the personification of “more that 47 years of RCNY history.” I am sure that Werner will be pleased by your recognition of his service to Rotary and making your acquaintance.



Bora Kutuk Class of 2007

Bora is a senior manager in Information Technology at Deloitte the Audit, Tax, Consulting and Financial Advisory firm. Bora is part of the services company within the firm and provides software services (SAP) for Financial, HR and other applications to internal clients. Internal Services

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Born in Izmir Turkey, Bora completed his undergrad studies at Istanbul Technical University with aCivil and Environmental Engineering degree. In 1988, Bora moved to the US to complete his MSCE and PH. D in the West Virginia University and graduated in 1998 from the Civil Engineering department with a specialization in geo-technical studies. After finishing the grad school, he became an independent software consultant specialized in SAP for 2 years before joining the Deloitte.


His long term goal is to own a small luxury beach resort and to make a contribution to society. Bora also enjoys traveling the world, reading history, playing soccer, and scuba diving.

When he first came to the US Bora spoke with very little English, but was still able to complete his Ph.D. requirements and changed his profession from Civil Engineering to Information Technology/Computers field after the graduation.

Bora is also a certified SCUBA instructor and a proud in volunteer for the American Heart Association Walk preparation.