NYSCF's Board of Directors is made up of leaders in medicine, the arts and business. Their talents and experience, combined with an unwavering commitment to advancing stem cell research, guide the Foundation in realizing its mission to accelerate cures for the major diseases of our time through stem cell research.
He graduated from Harvard University and pursued his medical education at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He trained in dermatology at the New York University Medical Center where he was the Chief Resident and subsequently underwent fellowship training in Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology.
He has received the ASLMS Ellet Drake award and will receive...
Ms. Solomon is on the Board of Directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in New York City. As an active health-care advocate she is also a member of NYAMR (New Yorkers for the Advancement of Medical Research) and the New York Council of the Joslin Diabetes Center. An attorney by training, Ms. Solomon practiced law with Debevoise & Plimpton before beginning a twenty-year career in new media, entertainment and investment banking.
She was founding Chief Executive Officer of Sothebys.com, and has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lancit Media Productions...
Margo Alexander
Ms. Alexander is the retired Chairman and CEO of UBS Global Asset Management (previously, Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management). She spent thirty years in the financial industry at UBS/PaineWebber, beginning as a research analyst and later directing major businesses in equity research, sales and trading. At the time of the UBS acquisition in 2000 she was a member of the PaineWebber Executive Committee and retired in 2003 from UBS.
Ms. Alexander is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, where she met her husband Robert Alexander.
Ms. Alexander is a member of the Boards of Haas School at Berkeley and its Corporate Responsibility Committee, and is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations.
She has been a member of the M.I.T. Council for the Arts since 1997...
Dr. Karen Burke is a dermatologist and research scientist. She received her PhD in biophysics from Cornell University, Ithaca, and her MD from New York University Medical College. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at Cornell University Medical College and The Rockefeller University, and residency in dermatology at the NYU Medical Center. She is in private practice in New York City and on the faculties of Mt. Sinai Medical Center and Cabrini Medical Center.
Dr. Burke has written numerous articles and four books. Her current research demonstrates the efficacy of topical and oral antioxidants inpreventing and reversing photoaging of the skin and in prevention of skin cancer...
While still in college, David co-founded Jumpstart, a national service program that pairs college students one-on-one with preschoolers needing individual attention. A decade later, Jumpstart employs 80 full time staff and engages 2,500 college students in service to more than 10,000 children in 60 communities across 22 states...
Chuck Close's work has been the subject of more than 100 solo exhibitions including those at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; and the Centre Georges Pompidou (Centre Beaubourg), Paris. He has participated in more than 300 group exhibitions including Documenta 5, 1972 and 6, 1977, Kassel, Germany; the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial Exhibition in 1969, 1977, 1979 and 1991; the Venice Biennial in 1993, 1995 and 2002; and the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, in 1995.
In 1980, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, organized a major retrospective that traveled to four venues including...
Alan M. Cohen
Alan is head of Global Compliance at Goldman Sachs. He serves as a vice chair of the Business Practices Committee and an ex-officio member of the Management Committee. Alan joined Goldman Sachs in 2004 as a partner.
Prior to joining the firm, Alan worked as a partner at O'Melveny & Myers since 1991, where he co-headed the White Collar and Regulatory Defense Practice and the New York Litigation Group. Prior to this, he was an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York for nine years, where his last assignment was as the chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force.
Alan earned a BA in 1972 from Temple University, and both a PhD in 1976 and a JD, with highest honors, in 1979 from Rutgers University.
John L. Eastman
Carol Einiger is President of Post Rock Advisors, LLC, a private investment advisory firm based in New York. She founded Post Rock Advisors after serving from 1996 to 2005 as Chief Investment Officer of The Rockefeller University.
Ms. Einiger began her investment career at Goldman Sachs in 1971. She worked from 1973 to 1988 at The First Boston Corporation, becoming a Managing Director and Head of the Capital Markets Department, and from 1989 to 1992 at Wasserstein Perella & Co. as a Managing Director...
He is the author of several books, most recently his chronicle of the process of rebuilding Ground Zero, entitled UP FROM ZERO: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York, and Beyond the Dunes: A Portrait of the Hamptons, a project done in partnership with the photographer Jake Rajs, published in 2008. In the fall of 2009 the Yale University Press will publish...
Deborah Kahn spent 33 years in the investment business. She began her career as a technical stock analyst at Wood’s Index, a money management firm in Philadelphia where she was responsible for writing a weekly stock market newsletter for institutional and high net worth private clients. In 1980, she joined Putnam Investments in Boston in the Corporate Communications area, creating reports for shareholders and investment professionals on the state of the market and the performance of the Putnam funds. She rose to the rank of Senior Vice President at Putnam where she spent more than 28 years before her retirement in 2005.
Her major focus throughout her career was to help raise money for Putnam funds by assisting financial advisors with portfolio construction. She was responsible for several billion of sales. She has lectured extensively on many investment topics including retirement and education planning, the psychology of investing, and investing for women. She also has taught continuing education courses for accountants and lawyers, and has been a student of the markets and investment behavior for more than three decades...
Dr. Massey managed the research and development programs, intellectual property portfolio and operations at IGEN International, Inc. and BioVeris from 1982 to 2004. Prior to IGEN International, Inc., he was on the faculty of...
David K. Mitnick
David K. Mitnick is the Founder and President of Domain Skate, LLC, an internet company that focuses on domain name arbitration disputes. Prior to starting Domain Skate, David spent ten years as an intellectual property lawyer with Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP in New York, working on all phases of intellectual property law including trademark licensing and prosecution, copyright litigation and and internet law. Before becoming an attorney, David worked as a Finance Associate at the Sanwa Bank in the International and Project Finance Groups.
He serves as a Trustee of the Mai Family Foundation and as the Advisory Board Chairman of the Brooklyn Law School Trade Secrets Institute. An avid hockey fan and player, David coaches hockey through the organization Ice Hockey in Harlem in the wintertime. David earned his BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a JD from Brooklyn Law School. Married to Rebecca Mai, they reside in New York City with their three children.
Mary Elizabeth Bunzel (Emeritus)
Janet Felleman (Emeritus)
Janet Felleman was recently appointed the New York State Parks Commissioner and chair of the New York City Region.
Previously she was the CEO and President of American Show Advisors which creates, markets and develops trade shows and conferences. She was the founder and former CEO of Corporate Presentations, the corporate parent of LegalTech which was acquired by American Lawyer Media in 1998. Janet is a trustee of Central Synagogue and on the President's Council of Prep for Prep.
