Mark Charendoff

Mark Charendoff is the President of the Maimonides Fund, a private grantmakingorganization dedicated to education and Jewish identity in North America and inIsrael. He is the former President of the Jewish Funders Network (JFN), an umbrella body of over 900 Jewish family foundations and independent funders.  Prior to JFN, Mark was the Vice President of the […]

Tova Dorfman

Tova Dorfman is the Director of the Steinhardt Family Foundation in Israel. In that capacity, she oversees the provision of assistance to a variety of nonprofits operating in the area of children and youth at risk and has forged significant partnerships among other philanthropic foundations, public agencies and nonprofits in a number of far-reaching educational […]

Malcom I. Hoenlein

Malcolm Hoenlein is the Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the coordinating body for 50 national Jewish organizations. He received his B.A. from Temple University and completed his doctoral course work at the University of Pennsylvania where he taught International Relations and was a Middle East specialist at […]

Michael A. Leven

Mike Leven is the chairman and chief executive officer of Georgia Aquarium. He previously served as the CEO of the Aquarium from 2008 to 2009 before leaving for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead Las Vegas Sands Corporation as President and Chief Operating Officer. He also served as its Secretary since June 2010.  Mr. Leven has […]

Gidi Mark

Gidi Mark has been the International CEO of Taglit-Birthright Israel since 2008.  Before his current position, he served as the project’s International Director of Marketing and Community Relations since the project’s inception in 1999.  Prior to joining the Taglit-Birthright Israel project, Mr. Mark was a diplomat for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  In this capacity […]

Shira Ruderman

Shira Ruderman is a professional philanthropist who serves as the Director of the Ruderman Family Foundation, a private family foundation that invests in three primary areas of focus: advocating for and advancing the inclusion of people with disabilities throughout our society; strengthening the relationship between Israel and the American Jewish community; and modeling the practice […]

Barry Shrage

Barry Shrage has served as president of CJP—Boston’s Jewish Federation– since 1987. Under Barry’s leadership, CJP is focused on three priorities: Jewish education and engaging future generations, strengthening our connection to Israel through community-to- community and people-to- people partnerships, and creating a caring community. He champions true partnerships between CJP, donors and recipient organizations—inspiring the […]

Alan Gill

Alan H. Gill, Executive Vice President Emeritus of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), is one of the Jewish world’s transformative professional leaders. With four decades experience in Jewish community development, Gill has played a central role in expanding JDC’s global humanitarian operation in more than 70 countries and Israel. He was previously CEO […]

Dr. Jeffery R. Soloman

Andrés Spokoiny

Andrés Spokoiny is the President and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network. Andrés is a long-time Jewish communal leader with a history of leading successful organizational transformations. He served as the CEO of Federation CJA in Montreal and, prior to that, Andrés worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Community (JDC) in Paris. As Regional […]