Board of Directors

Mark Taxel

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


Harmony Knutson

President*
Board Member, 314 Action


Samantha Taxel

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


David Lord

Treasurer*
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Nexa


Deborah Bhatt

Founder, Vesta New York


Alexander Carey

Director of Communications, Wells Fargo – Midwest


Terri Coppersmith

Vice President, Alumni Affairs and Development, The Cooper Union


Benjamin Geyerhahn

CEO, Workers Benefit Consortium


Fred Kirschner 

Former Co-Owner, Kirschner Brothers Oil Company


Michael Rolnick, MD

Founding CEO and former President, National Foundation of Emergency Medicine


Laurie Scheinman

Entrepreneur and Philanthropist; Director: UJA and Planned Parenthood


Nelson Taxel

CEO, Positive Promotions


Michael Weiner, MD

Hetttinger Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center


Alex Wolin

Vice President of Sales –  North America, Persefoni


Tiffany Taxel

Honorary Co-Chair


Linda Taxel

Honorary Co-Chair

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