Voices of Impact

Amb. Fitz Haney is a former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica and the Managing Director for Latin America at the Genesis Prize Foundation. He served as Ambassador from 2015 to 2017 under Presidents Obama and Trump, focusing on commercial relations and regional security cooperation. Previously, Fitz held senior positions at Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, and Citibank, and roles in Israeli venture capital at Israel Seed Partners, Viola Group, and Vintage Investment Partners. He currently serves on Vintage’s advisory board. Fitz holds a B.S. and an M.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew.

Rabbi Berel Lazar is the Chief Rabbi of Russia and Chairman of the Council of Rabbis of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia. He also serves as the senior Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Moscow and has held leadership roles connecting Jewish communities across the former Soviet Union. Rabbi Lazar has served on the Presidential Council for Interaction with Religious Associations and the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation. Born in Milan, he moved to Moscow in 1990, beginning what has been more than three decades of helping rebuild Jewish institutions across Russia.

Lord Ian Livingston is a former CEO of BT Group and former UK Minister of State for Trade and Investment, where he was responsible for promoting British trade and attracting foreign investment. Ian currently serves as Chairman of the Board of S&P Global. Earlier in his career, he was CFO of both BT Group and Dixons Group. Ian has held senior board positions at Currys, Man Group, the Business Growth Fund, National Grid, Belmond, and Celtic F.C. In 2013, he was appointed to the House of Lords as Baron Livingston of Parkhead.

Alan Wilzig is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and semi-professional race car driver. He previously served as CEO, President, and Chairman of the Trust Company of New Jersey. Alan serves on the board of the Wilzig Family Foundation and contributed to the acclaimed biography of his father, titled Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend. Alan is the owner of the largest racetrack zoned for private use in the United States, located in upstate New York, and is a creator of the Wilzig Castle on Long Island. Alan was also a co-owner of Kutsher's Tribeca and helped found the Chabad of Southampton. He is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dov Seidman is an entrepreneur, author, and a leading voice on ethical leadership and corporate culture. He is the founder of LRN, a company he led as CEO for 25 years, and the founder of The HOW Institute for Society, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing moral leadership and values-based decision-making. Dov serves on the boards of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, 92nd Street Y, Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine, and Planet Word. He has spoken at organizations including the United Nations, World Economic Forum, Apple, National Football League, and Aspen Ideas Festival, and he is the best-selling author of HOW: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything  Dov earned degrees in moral philosophy from the University of California and the University of Oxford before receiving his law degree from Harvard Law School.

Boaz Weinstein is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Saba Capital Management, a New York–based investment firm focused on credit and relative value strategies. He founded Saba in 2009 following the spinout of Deutsche Bank’s proprietary credit trading business, which he built into one of the bank’s leading trading platforms. Boaz graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Philosophy and earned the title of National Master in chess at age 16.

Tal Cohen is President of Nasdaq, where he leads the company’s market services and financial technology divisions and oversees its North American and European exchanges. Before joining Nasdaq, he served as CEO of Chi-X Global Holdings and Senior Vice President and Co-Head of Electronic Trading for North America at Instinet. Tal also worked in mergers and acquisitions at American Express and began his career at Arthur Andersen. He has served on the boards of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada and the Canadian Depository for Securities. Tal holds a B.A. from SUNY Albany and an M.B.A. from NYU Stern School of Business.

Igor Tulchinsky is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of WorldQuant, a global quantitative asset manager with 28 offices and over 1,000 employees. He oversees strategy, research, and portfolio management, founding the firm in 2007. Igor spent 12 years prior in statistical arbitrage at Millennium Management. Earlier, he worked as a venture capitalist, scientist at AT&T Bell Labs, programmer, and authored The Age of Prediction, Finding Alphas, and The UnRules. Igor also launched WorldQuant University, WorldQuant Foundry, and WorldQuant Ventures. He holds an M.A. in computer science from the University of Texas, completed in a record nine months, and an M.B.A. in finance and entrepreneurship from the Wharton School.

Aby Rosen is a Principal and Co-Founder of RFR Holding LLC, a Manhattan-based real estate investment, development, and management company. He was born in Frankfurt, then part of West Germany, to parents who were Holocaust survivors. Over his career, Aby has built a portfolio that includes landmark properties such as the Seagram Building and the Lever House, as well as hospitality destinations like the W South Beach, The Jaffa, and the Gramercy Park Hotel. Beyond real estate, Aby is a prominent collector of modern and contemporary art, with works by artists including Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and Damien Hirst. He is also a founder of the CORE Club and recently acquired the historic movie theater in Southampton.

Dr. Charles Small is the Founding Director and President of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). He established the ISGAP Oxford Summer Institute in Critical Antisemitism Studies in 2015 and previously served as the Founding Director of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism. Charles is the author of several books and articles, including the five-volume Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity and The Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective. He holds a BA in Political Science from McGill University, an MSc in Urban Economic Development Planning from University College London, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford.