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Executive Committee

Co-Chair

Jeff Jones

Jeffrey Jones retired in 2020 as the Chief Accountant of KPMG. From 1997 to 1999 he was a Professional Accounting Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the SEC in Washington, D.C.

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Co-Chair

Linda LaGorga

Linda LaGorga is the CFO of Entegris, Inc., a leading supplier of advanced materials and process solutions for the semiconductor and other high-technology industries.

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Vice Chair and Treasurer

Todd Matlovsky

Reporting directly to the COO and other C-level officers, Todd Matlovsky has a broad range of responsibilities in a highly dynamic fast-growing company.

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Secretary

Betty J. Brennan, RN BSN

Betty J Brennan has spent more than forty years in healthcare, the last thirty of which focused on the development and management of innovative services in home health care and hospice.

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Executive Committee

Sandra S. Baron

Sandra S. Baron is a Senior Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression.

 

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Executive Committee

Mark A. Zurack

Mark A. Zurack teaches at Columbia Business School. Prior to his academic career, Mark worked at Goldman Sachs for 18 years.

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Director

Bal Agrawal

Founder & CEO of LifeWorx Bal is a believer of human potential! With a caring and innovative mindset, he has assembled, and nurtured talented and diligent folks for 40 years and provided solutions to societies’ changing needs.

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Director

Rachel Berk

Rachel Berk is a certified public accountant, certified fraud examiner, certified insolvency and restructuring advisor, and is certified in financial forensics.

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Director

Gayatri Devi, MD MS FAAN

Gayatri Devi, MD MS FAAN is Director of Park Avenue Neurology, Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra | Northwell, and Attending Physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

 

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Director

Patrick J. Dolan

Patrick J. Dolan is a commercial real estate professional with over 30 years of experience in building operations and commercial property management.

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Jane Dystel

Jane Dystel is the founder and President of  Dystel, Goderich & Bourret LLC, a well-respected literary agency with a diverse client roster.

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Michael Ferik

Michael Ferik is Head of Individual Markets of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian).

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Joe Fisher

Joe Fisher is a social entrepreneur with a passion for person-centered care. He is the Founder and CEO of Renewal Memory Partners.

 

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Dr. Robert Glatter

Robert Glatter, MD is Editor at Large of Medscape Emergency Medicine, a columnist for Medscape hosting “Hot topics in EM” and a member of the Editorial Board of Medscape Emergency Medicine.

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Director

Meghann Gill

Meghann Gill is the Senior Vice President of Operations at SL Green Realty Corp., a fully integrated real estate investment trust and Manhattan’s largest office landlord.

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Jonathan S. Henes, PC

Jon Henes is one of the country’s leading restructuring and corporate governance advisors.

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Sarah Hoit

Sarah Hoit, Co-Founder & Chairman of SIP’s Global Brain Health Initiative,  is a social entrepreneur, executive, and consultant.

 

 

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Wayne Kaplan

Wayne Kaplan, Co-Founder & Managing Member Of Premier Senior Living, has spent much of that time as Vice Chairman and General Counsel of Kapson Senior Quarters Corp.

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Director

Dr. Alisa Kauffman

Dr. Alisa G. Kauffman received her B.A. degree from Lehigh University in 1981 and a D.M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 1985.

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Director

Sharon Kilmer

Sharon Kilmer is a Managing Director at Angelo, Gordon & Co, an alternative investment management firm based in New York City where she is a senior member of the Net Lease investment team.

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John Moore

John A. Moore, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Moore is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Atria Senior Living, Inc., a national seniors housing operator.

 

 

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Director

Joanna Peña-Bickley

Joanna Peña-Bickley, a design technologist, is known as the mother of Cognitive Experience Design and a pioneer in A.I. aided, generative design.

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Director

Tamryn Shami

Tamryn Shami is co-founder and Managing Director at SpotlightkidsNY, a children’s theater studio, located in downtown New York City.

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Director

Nimesh Udeshi

Nimesh Udeshi is a Managing Director and North America Head of Human Resources for Banking, Capital Markets, and Advisory (BCMA).

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Tim Walsh

Tim has over 30 years of experience serving some of KPMG’s largest Audit clients in the consumer products, retail, industrial manufacturing, and media/advertising industries.

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Director

Thomas R. Wolzien

Wozien is a Vietnam Veteran, entering the Army on graduation from the University of Denver.  He completed Infantry training, Engineer Officer Candidate School, and became a commissioned officer.

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Director

Pauline Yeung-Ha

Pauline Yeung-Ha is a Partner at the Grimaldi Yeung Law Group LLP. Ms. Yeung-Ha concentrates in the practice areas of Elder Law, Estate Planning, and Special Needs Planning.

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Emeritus & Ex-Officio

Director, Emeritus

Bill Brachfeld

Bill Brachfeld joined the Board in 1988. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania in 1955.

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Director, Emeritus

Marilyn Cohen

Marilyn retired from JPMorgan as Managing Director in the Global Funds Group specializing in the Alternative Industry.

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Director, Emeritus

Richard S. Helstein

Richard S. Helstein is currently President of Creative Focus, A Marketing and Advertising Consulting Firm; as well as having served as an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at the Darden Graduate Business School, University of Virginia.

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Director, Emeritus

David Z. Hirsh

David Z. Hirsh is a Senior Advisor to Sterling Investors. David has more than 30 years of experience across all major real estate product types and US markets.

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Director, Emeritus

Susan V. Kayser

Susan has served on the Board since 1997 and is currently an Emeritus director.  She is Of Counsel to the law firm Duane Morris LLP.

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Director, Emeritus

Sunnie Kenowsky Irving

Sunnie Kenowsky Irving is Clinical Instructor in Department of Psychiatry, NYU Lagone Medical Center and Co-Director of the Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher Alzheimer’s disease Education and Resources Program.

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Director, Emeritus

Lori Oscher Friedman

Lori Oscher Friedman is Design Director at Active Apparel Group. Lori received her B.S. in Textile and Apparel Design from Cornell University.

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