Board of Directors

Mark Taxel

Chairman of the Board and CEO
President Hayrake Management, Inc.
Former Executive Vice President, Marketing Jos. E. Seagram and Sons.


Tiffany and Linda Taxel

Honorary Co-Chairs*


David Lord

Chief Operating Officer/CFO*
General Manager, Credit Co.


Harmony Knutson

Chief Development and Advocacy Officer*
Former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Executive


Samantha Silver

Vice President/ Secretary*
Measures for Justice, Chief of Strategy and Operations


Robert Kleeblatt

Foundation Counsel*
Of Counsel Winne Banta Basilian and Kahn, PC


Alex Wolin

Chief Cycling Officer*
Slack, Director of Enterprise Sales


Alex Carey

Target Tech Communications, CEO and Co-Founder


Neil Carty

COSM, Head of Brand and Community


Terri Coppersmith

Executive Director Cooper Union Development


Ben Geyerhan

CEO, Workers Benefits Consortium


Michael Rolnick, MD.

NFEM’s founding CEO/ President


Laurie Scheinman

Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
Director: UJA and Planned Parenthood


Michael Weiner, MD.

Hetttinger Professor and Vice Chair,
Pediatrics Columbia University Irving Medical Center

*Officers, The Jed Ian Taxel Foundation for Rare Cancer Research