Board of Directors

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Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine

Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine AB '92, MPP '96 is president of the Sunshine Care Foundation for Neurological Care and Research (SCF), an international non-profit organization dedicated to finding innovative ways of delivering free clinical and neurological care to indigent patients in rural areas of Asia.... Read more about Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine

Arthur Applbaum

Arthur Applbaum is Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values. His work on political legitimacy, civil and official disobedience, and role morality has appeared in journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Journal of the American Medical Association, Harvard Law Review, Ethics, and Legal Theory.... Read more about Arthur Applbaum

Adina Astor

Adina Astor '93, MBA '98 is a former McKinsey consultant, and has been a management and strategic consultant for 25 years. Over the last decade she has advised mission-based organizations on strategy and planning, working extensively with non-profits, philanthropies, public-private collaboratives, and institutions in areas such as entrepreneurship and small business development, workforce development, health and human services, and housing and community development.... Read more about Adina Astor

Robert L. Beal

Robert Lawrence Beal, a native Bostonian, graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard University in 1963 and continued at Harvard Business School to earn a Master of Business Administration in 1965.... Read more about Robert L. Beal

Judith A. Berlin

Treasurer

Judy Berlin is a Certified Public Accountant, with an MBA with highest distinction from Babson College, a BJEd from Hebrew College, and a BS and MA from Boston University.... Read more about Judith A. Berlin

Bradley M. Bloom

Brad Bloom has invested in private companies since the late 1970s and in 1986 was a co-founder of Berkshire Partners, a private equity firm with more than $13 billion in assets under management. ... Read more about Bradley M. Bloom

David Borrus

David Borrus P'17 is the Business Manager for UBC Pile Drivers & Divers Local 56, New England Regional Council of Carpenters, representing over 470 pile drivers, marine welders, commercial drivers, and harbor pilots. He is also a Trustee for the New England Carpenters Training Fund. David has been a commercial diver since 1979, and a member of the Local 56 since 1991.

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Lavea Brachman

Lavea Brachman ’84 currently divides her time between her hometown of Columbus, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan, where she serves as Vice President of Programs at the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation.... Read more about Lavea Brachman

Allison Burman Gordon

Allison Burman Gordon worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co. between 1992 and 2002 as a senior member of a team responsible for developing and managing more than $1 billion in client assets.... Read more about Allison Burman Gordon

Marc Cohen

Chair

Marc A. Cohen, Ph.D. is a Professor of Gerontology in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston. ... Read more about Marc Cohen

Teodoro Forcht Dagi

Teodoro Forcht Dagi received an AB from Columbia University and an MD and MPH from Johns Hopkins University. He trained in neurosurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Guy’s, Maudsley and King’s College Hospitals Neurosurgical Unit in London.... Read more about Teodoro Forcht Dagi

Laura Fein

Laura Fein AB '91-'92, JD Columbia '96, P '22 is a former attorney who currently runs her own consulting practice focused on leadership development, strategic planning, marketing and fundraising. Her work has included planning necessary to launch an innovative Jewish high school in Bergen County, NJ, and an entrepreneurial program to bring Israeli scientists to U.S. schools for in-residence learning projects.

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Sara Fleiss

Sara Fleiss '02, MBA '06 is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Previously, she was the co-founder and co-portfolio manager of Emeth Partners, an emerging markets arbitrage hedge fund. Prior to founding Emeth, Sara was the lead analyst on the Emerging Markets Equities portfolio at Harvard Management Company (HMC). At HMC, Sara build and deveoped a team that focused on risk arbitrage, volatility arbitrage, and relative value trading strategies. She started her career on the Citigroup Equity Derivatives desk.... Read more about Sara Fleiss

Benjamin M. Friedman

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, and formerly Chairman of the Department of Economics, at Harvard University.... Read more about Benjamin M. Friedman

Mark R. Goldweitz

Rosalind E. Gorin

Jonathan Gould

Jonathan Gould is a doctoral student in Harvard University’s Department of Government and a graduate fellow at Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. ... Read more about Jonathan Gould

Steven Grinspoon

Dr. Steven Grinspoon is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Endowed Chair of Neuroendocrinology and Metabolism at MGH.... Read more about Steven Grinspoon

Andy Janfaza

Andy is a Managing Director at Neuberger Berman, where he helps to lead the firm’s wealth management efforts throughout New England.... Read more about Andy Janfaza

Joseph Kahan

Joseph Kahan grew up in a northern suburb of London, England. The product of a Jewish Day School, he studied Mathematical Economics at Leicester University and Mathematical Statistics at University College London.... Read more about Joseph Kahan

Michael Kaplan

Michael is a partner at the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP, an international law firm, where he is co-head of the Firm's global capital markets group. Michael is also actively involved in the Jewish community. He recently completed his term on the board of trustees of Congregation Kehillat Jeshurun, an Orthodox synagogue in Manhattan, and serves on the board of trustees for Carmel Academy, a pluralistic day school in Greenwich, CT. .... Read more about Michael Kaplan

Robert Kargman

Robert Kargman has been the CEO of Boston Land Company since 1978. The Company, which Mr. Kargman founded in that year, owns and manages multifamily properties from Delaware to Massachusetts. ... Read more about Robert Kargman

Philip Kriger

Philip is a Director at Liberty Mutual Investments (LMI), the investment arm of Liberty Mutual Insurance with more than $70B of assets under management.... Read more about Philip Kriger

Judith A. Levenfeld

Judith A. Levenfeld, a native of Chicago, earned an AB cum laude in Government from Harvard College (’83), an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics (’84), and a JD from New York University School of Law (’88). ... Read more about Judith A. Levenfeld

Andrew Lobel

A current investment banking analyst at Credit Suisse in New York, Andrew Lobel '19 is a recent graduate who was very active as a leader at Harvard Hillel and across campus. As a freshman, he helped organize a vigil in the Science Center Plaza in support of Israeli victims of terror. He was elected VP of Holidays, a position he held through his sophomore year. As a junior, he was Co-Chair of Shabbat 1000, which attracted more than 1,000 students and faculty and was Harvard's largest Shabbat dinner to date.... Read more about Andrew Lobel

Judith S. Lobel

Judith Lobel AB '85, JD '89 is a retired real estate attorney living in New York City. Judy has served on the New Leadership Network, Manhattan Women's Executive Council, and the National Council of AIPAC.... Read more about Judith S. Lobel