ReServe Board of Directors
JACK ROSENTHAL (Chairman and Founder) is President of The New York Times Company Foundation, a position he assumed in 2000 after three decades as a reporter, editor and executive at The New York Times. In 1982, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing at The Times. At the Foundation, he directs all the newspaper's philanthropic activities which include administering the Neediest Cases Fund, the College Scholarship Program and 350 grants each year to nonprofit organizations serving New York, Boston and other communities in which The Times does business.
HERB STURZ (Vice Chairman and Founder) is the Founding Chairman of The After-School Corporation and serves as a Trustee of the Open Society Institute. In addition, he represents the Open Society on the board of NURCHA, a non-governmental organization that has facilitated the construction of over 150,000 low-income houses throughout South Africa. Mr. Sturz has also served as Founding Director of the Vera Institute of Justice; New York City Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice; Chairman of the New York City Planning Commission; and a member of the editorial board of The New York Times.
MICHAEL M. WEINSTEIN (Treasurer and Founder) is Chief Program Officer for The Robin Hood Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. and served as chairman of the Department of Economics at Haverford College during the 1980s. He provided economics analysis and commentaries for National Public Radio before joining The New York Times, where he served on the editorial board and as The Times' economics columnist during the 1990s. He is also president and founder of W.A.D. Financial Counseling, Inc., a non-profit foundation which provides free financial counseling to poor families.
LOIS ARONSTEIN is the State Director of the New York State Office of AARP, the nation's leading organization for people 50 and over. Ms. Aronstein is a frequent television, radio, and print spokesperson for AARP on national and state issues affecting older New Yorkers, including prescription drug affordability, Social Security, Medicaid, and consumer protections. Ms. Aronstein initially directed AARP operations in six New England states before she was named director for AARP's New York State Office at its establishment in 1993. Prior to joining AARP, Ms. Aronstein served as the Executive Director of the Framingham Council of Aging in Massachusetts. Ms. Aronstein currently serves on the advisory board of IPRO, the Island Peer Review Organization, and she is a trustee of the Aging in New York Fund.
Dr. ROBERT N. BUTLER is the President and CEO of the International Longevity Center- USA. (ILC-USA) and Professor of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, public servant and Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Dr. Robert N. Butler has long been involved in a broad array of social and health issues. He is perhaps best known for his advocacy of the medical and social needs and rights of the elderly and his research on healthy aging and the dementias.
MARC FREEDMAN is Founder and President of Civic Ventures. He also led the effort to create Experience Corps, the nation's largest national service program engaging Americans 50 and above. Freedman is author of the book “Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America” and recently “Encore: Finding work that matters in the Second Half of Life.” A frequent commentator in the national media, Freedman has testified before numerous committees of the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament on topics including the aging of America, retirement and volunteering.
JOHN A. HERRMANN JR. is Vice Chairman – North America and Chairman – Japan of Lincoln International LLC. Prior to joining Lincoln International he was a managing director of the Global Investment Bank sector of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. He is President of the board of directors of NPR and the president of the NPR Foundation. Mr. Herrmann is a member of the Yale University Council and former chairman of its Committee on Development, President of the board of trustees of the Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services, and trustee of the Steep Rock Association.
DAVID R. JONES has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the Community Service Society of New York since 1986. Prior to joining CSS, Mr. Jones served as Executive Director of the New York City Youth Bureau, and from 1979 to 1983, as Special Advisor to Mayor Koch. Mr. Jones was a member of the transition committee of New York's mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg.
KATHLEEN M. KELLEY is a Global Macro Portfolio Manager at Kingdon Capital Management. Prior to this, she served two years as a global macro strategist at Vantis Capital Management in New York. Kathleen is on the Board of the Bedford-Stuyvesant "I Have A Dream" Program, as well as Iris House, a center for women and their children with AIDS in Harlem.
ALISON PAVIA was the founding Executive Director of ReServe. Since 1997, she has served on the board of Riverdale Neighborhood House, a settlement house in the Northwest Bronx, where she serves as board president. Prior to that time she was an attorney at Pavia & Harcourt (1992-1997) and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1986-1992), specializing in corporate and banking law. She is a trustee of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.
