METRO & WESTERN NEW YORK - Key Persons


A. Mitti Liebersohn

Job Titles:
  • President and Managing Director, New York City Operations Avison Young

Adam Faircloth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Chief Integrated Fundraising Officer

Akshay Bhardwaj

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Metro New York Junior Board
  • Executive Chef, Junoon NYC

Alex Case

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Metro New York Junior Board
  • Membership Chair / Vice President of Construction, AION Partners

Alexa Levy

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Wish Relationship

Alexis Wilpon

Job Titles:
  • Privacy and Cybersecurity Associate

Allie Coykendall

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources and Compliance Manager, GRIPA & Cognisight

Allison Tyler

Job Titles:
  • President & Chief Executive Officer, Make - a - Wish Mississippi

Aly Arena

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  • Co - Chair / Director of Recruiting, JK Executive Strategies

Alyssa Ballou

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Manager, Development - Rochester

Alyssa Wrobel

Job Titles:
  • Recruiter, QVII

Amanda Badean

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Human Resources

Amanda McCune

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate, Human Resources & Operations

Amy Brindley

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  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Chief Chapter Advancement Officer

Amy Kritzer

Job Titles:
  • Attending Physician in the Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children 's Hospital

Amy Waldron

Job Titles:
  • Director, Google Cloud Healthcare & Life Sciences

Ana Huerta

Job Titles:
  • Bilingual Associate, Wish Relationship

Andrew L. Kung

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Andrew Merinoff

Job Titles:
  • Founder, DisPact Ventures

Andria Trinidad

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Principal, Apollo Global Management / Chairman

Angela Sinclair

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Development

Anika Daughtry

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Metro Mission Delivery

Anna Brower

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  • Member of the Metro New York Junior Board
  • Chairman / Chief of Staff, Office of NY Attorney General Letitia James

AnnMarie Imparato

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Vice President of Governance and Corporate Secretary, Wafra, Inc.

Ashley Cruz

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Wish Alumni

Ashley Doerzbacher

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communications, YMCA of Greater Rochester

Barbara Bambach

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  • Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

Ben Marchione

Job Titles:
  • Regional Director - Western New York

Ben Vassallo

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair / Senior Recruiting Consultant, Insero & Co.

Bradley Cooper

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Partner, Capital Z Partners

Brandon Speweik

Job Titles:
  • Head of Industry Sales and Strategy, GFT Group

Brian Donaghy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Chairman & CEO, Structure Tone Equities, LLC

Butch Gedraitis

Job Titles:
  • Owner, Diverse Technologies

Caitlin Donaghy

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, Part - Tim

Caitlin Sgarlat Deluca

Job Titles:
  • Pediatric Rheumatology and Integrative Medicine, Golisano Children 's Hospital

Caroline Ver Planck

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Community Fundraising

Catherine Smith

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Wish Relationship

Cathy Paugh - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Charles Merinoff

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chairman / Breakthru Beverage Group

Cheryl Heinonen

Job Titles:
  • Chief People & Communications Officer, Loyal

Clara Twill

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, Medical Engagement

Constance K. Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer, Equitable

Craig Saslow

Job Titles:
  • Event and Hospitality Expert Co - Founder, the Premiere

Dan Palermo

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Harris Beach

Daniel J. Kennell

Job Titles:
  • Commercial Relationship Manager, Community Bank, N.a

Danielle Deery

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Wish Relationship

Danielle Horowitz

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Development

David Bradley

Job Titles:
  • Partner, Hodgson Russ LLP

David Gilberg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Metro New York Junior Board
  • CEO, Elder Care Homecare

David Mammano

Job Titles:
  • Founding Member, YOUtopia Network

Denis Levy

Job Titles:
  • Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Southern California Permanente Group

Derrick Hall - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
President & Chief Executive Officer, Arizona Diamondbacks

Diana Lopez

Job Titles:
  • Director, Mission Support

Dolf A. Berle

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Nothing Bundt Cakes

Donna Auria

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  • Regional Director, Development - Rochester

Doug Eckrote

Job Titles:
  • SVP & COO, Zones LLC

Douglas Scothorn

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of National Medical Advisory Council, Pediatric Hematology / Oncology, Mission Health, Asheville, NC

Dr. Madeline Fields

Job Titles:
  • Pediatric Neurologist / Epileptologist, Associate Professor of Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Co - Director of the Mount Sinai Epilepsy Program

Dr. Michael Jordan

Job Titles:
  • Attending Physician, Sports and Family Medicine, Buffalo Medical Group

Dr. Shirley Davis

Job Titles:
  • President & CEO of SDS Global Enterprises, Inc

Elizabeth Merkouris

Job Titles:
  • Director, Strategic & Philanthropic Partnerships

Emma Fine

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Philanthropist

Erica Brienzi

Job Titles:
  • Audit Manager, Insero & Co. CPAs

Eva Shure

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder, the Premiere

Evin Broder

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Metro New York Junior Board
  • Investment Banking Senior Vice President, Goldman Sachs

Flo Bryan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Chief Corporate Alliances Officer

Frances Hall

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Chief Mission Advancement Officer

Gail Morelle

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Christa Construction

Gala Chair

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Rochester Advisory Board

Gina Florescu

Job Titles:
  • Chief Brand Officer

Glasmary Paulino

Job Titles:
  • Bilingual Associate, Wish Relationship

Grace Sands

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, Wish Alumni Advancement

Grace Tralongo

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Wish Logistics

Gregory Sawicki

Job Titles:
  • Director, Cystic Fibrosis Center, Pediatric Pulmonology, Boston Children 's Hospital

Halle Marks

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Wish Assist

Heather McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Owner, McCarthy Tents and Events

Herr Toyota Rochester

Job Titles:
  • General Manager, West

Jackie Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP

Jacob Parker-Burgard

Job Titles:
  • Senior Data Analyst

James Galowski

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Partner, Apollo Global Management, LLC

James R. Wilkinson

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, TrailRunner International

Janell Holas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Chief Brand & Marketing Officer

Janie Jones

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, Wish Alumni Advancement

Jared Perry

Job Titles:
  • Chief Revenue Officer
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Jeffrey H. Wisoff

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Neurosurgery & Pediatrics Director, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, NYU Langone Medical Center, NY

Jenna Grill

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Metro New York Junior Board
  • Executive Director Human Resources, Morgan Stanley

Jennifer Jung

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Special Events

Jennifer Kwon

Job Titles:
  • Pediatric Neurology, Director, Pediatric Neuromuscular Program at University of Wisconsin, American Family Children 's Hospital

Jessica Melo

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Wish - Granting Volunteer Engagement

Jill Girardeau

Job Titles:
  • Bilingual Associate, Wish Logistics

Jimmy Escalona

Job Titles:
  • Bilingual Associate, Wish Logistics

Jodie Antoniadis

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Development - Buffalo

John Cortese

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Partner, Apollo Global Management, LLC

John Perry

Job Titles:
  • President, TL Cannon / Applebee's

Jon Bennett

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Strategic & Philanthropic Partnerships

Jordan Sessler

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer, BuzzRX

Joseph Dunlop - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer

Josh D'Amaro

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Disney Experiences

Joyce Hui-Yuen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Attending
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Attending Physician, Pediatric Rheumatology, Hofstra-North Shore Long Island Jewish School of Medicine/Cohen Children's Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY

Julia Bunyatov Goddard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Founder and CEO, Sirmio Inc

Julie Khlevner

Job Titles:
  • Pediatric Gastroenterologist & Director of Gastrointestinal Motility Center, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, NY Presbyterian Morgan Stanley 's Children Hospital

Kara Stuart Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Child Neurologist, Medical Director Fetal Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's

Karen S. Wells

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Chief Operations & Inclusion Officer

Kate Sands

Job Titles:
  • CEO & Founder, Honestly Kate, Inc. Anchor, Cheddar News

Katie Crumlish

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Administration - Buffalo

Katie White Sibson

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer ( COO ), Decision Science CoE, American Express

Kelly McCabe

Job Titles:
  • Director, Wish Relationship

Keri Gohman

Job Titles:
  • CEO, AbacusNet

Kirsten Platt

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships

Kristen Henry

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Digital Communication & Analytics

Kristen Shanley

Job Titles:
  • Director and Head of DEI and CSR, Cerberus Capital Management

Kusum Viswanathan

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics; Director, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology; Director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program, Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

Laila Cook

Job Titles:
  • President & Chief Executive Officer, Make - a - Wish Oregon

Laura Bickert

Job Titles:
  • SVP, Senior Relationship Manager, Bank of America

Laura Canepa

Job Titles:
  • Controller
  • Finance

Laura Siedman Albanese

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Pediatric Division, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

Laurel Gumpert

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Donor Relations

Lawrence J. Rothenberg

Job Titles:
  • Partner, Proskauer Rose, LLP

Leighann Buscemi

Job Titles:
  • Director, Special Events & Community Fundraising

Leslie Motter - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • President

Lexington Passamonte

Job Titles:
  • Data Coordinator

Lily Rand

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, Digital Marketing and Content

Linda J. Addonizio

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University College
Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director, Program for Pediatric Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure & Transplantation, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, NY

Linda Rutherford

Job Titles:
  • Chief Administration Officer, Southwest Airlines

Lindsay Batrowny

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buffalo Advisory Board

LuAnn Bott

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Chief Revenue Partnerships & Services Officer

Lucy D. Mastrandrea

Job Titles:
  • Associate Division Chief

Maria Valencia

Job Titles:
  • Bilingual Associate, Wish Relationship ( P / T )

Marie Arrigo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Tax Partner - Family Offices Services Partner, EisnerAmper LLP

Mark Krieger

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Medical Staff and Division Chair, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children 's Hospital Los Angeles

Marley Putt

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Wish Relationship

Mary Ellen (Mar) Healy

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator
  • Finance

Mary Hazel

Job Titles:
  • Director, Development - Buffalo

Maureen Fitzgerald

Job Titles:
  • Chief Development Officer

Maxine Awner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buffalo Advisory Board
  • Buffalo Advisory Board Chair, Wish Granter / Senior Vice President - Investments & Merrill Lynch - Sebastian, Awner, Houlding and Spagnolo Group

Melissa Arias

Job Titles:
  • President & Chief Executive Officer, Make - a - Wish Alaska & Washington

Melissa Rau

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Wish Logistics

Michael Cooper

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Metro New York Junior Board
  • Vice President, Real Estate Acquisitions, BlackRock

Michael Deichmiller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Rochester Advisory Board
  • Vice President, Client Engagement & Planning, Butler / till

Michael Delaney

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Managing Partner, Court Square Capital Partners

Michael J. Levitt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Chairman / Vice Chairman, Apollo Credit Management

Michael Knuff

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director - Investments, Financial Advisor, Prentis Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors

Michael Mockus

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Partner and Northeast Deals Leader, PwC

Michael Nenner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Executive Vice President, Gurney 's Resorts

Michael S. Klein

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Michael Senter

Job Titles:
  • CEO, ABCO HVACR Supply Solution

Michelle Muniak

Job Titles:
  • Senior Design Associate, SmartDESIGN Architecture, PLLC

Michelle Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Co - CEO of Isos Capital Management

Mike Mouro

Job Titles:
  • Senior VP, Wealth Advisor, Portfolio Manager, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management

Mohamed Amin

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Donor Services

Nathaniel Hill

Job Titles:
  • Founder and President, Broadway Plus

Naveen Shahani

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Principal, Clearlake Capital Group

Nicholas Lyons

Job Titles:
  • Principal, PJT Partners

Nicole Kingsley Brunner

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer, Manning & Napier

Nihada Donohew

Job Titles:
  • VP, Advantage Federal Credit Union

Nitish Basandra

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Metro New York Junior Board
  • Corporate Strategy & Development

Orlando Ashford

Job Titles:
  • Chief People Officer, Fanatics

Pattie Mullins

Job Titles:
  • President & Chief Executive Officer, Make - a - Wish Central Coast and Southern Central Valley

Paul Hurley

Job Titles:
  • Wealth Advisor, Bank on Buffalo

Peter Bordonaro

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Counsel, Calspan

Peter Du

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Metro New York Junior Board
  • Communications Manager, ChromeOS and Google for Education, Google

Phil Colaco

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC ( Retired )

Phil Lussier - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • President

Rabia Sheikh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Vice President, Visa Inc

Reba Dominski

Job Titles:
  • Chairman - Elect
Executive Vice President, Chief Social Responsibility Officer and President, U.S. Bank Foundation

Rebecca Lefkowitz

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Wish Logistics

Rebecca Messina

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company

Rich Jureller

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Community Relations, President of the Sabres Foundation, Buffalo Sabres

Rick Herman III

Job Titles:
  • President, RML Transport Corporation

Rob Gallina

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Rochester Advisory Board
  • Senior Project Manager, Gallina Development Corporation

Rob Nuzzo

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair / Leadership Coach, Speaker and Corporate

Ryan Heffernan

Job Titles:
  • Finance
  • Manager

Ryan O'Hanlon

Job Titles:
  • Director, Aspen Power Partners

Sabrina Ramirez

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Medical Engagement

Samantha Gurowski

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Wish Logistics

Sarah Bain-Lucey

Job Titles:
  • Audit Senior Manager, Deloitte

Sari Chang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Partner, JACOBSCHANG Architecture

Sean Villa

Job Titles:
  • Alternative Investments Division, Wafra

Selin Terzi

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Morgan Stanley Prime Brokerage

Serena Schibetta

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Wish Relationship

Shannon Chaney

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, Program Wish Logistics - Buffalo

Shaquille Gonzalez

Job Titles:
  • Bilingual Associate, Wish Logistics

Sheila Peluso

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Senior Managing Director, Chief Human Resources Officer and Senior Legal Officer, Cerberus Capital Management, L.P

Sheridan Lasher

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, Operations, Human Resources

Siddharth Bahl

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Harter Secrest & Emery

Stan Moss

Job Titles:
  • CEO of Polen Capital

Stan Whitsett

Job Titles:
  • Pediatric Clinical Psychologist, Former Deputy Chief, Child & Family Behavioral Health Services, Tripler Army Medical Center

Stephanie Drzymala

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Volunteer and Wish Relationship - Buffalo

Stephanie Kowalski

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Program Services - Buffalo

Stephen Lynch

Job Titles:
  • President and CEO, Intellastar, Sports Performance Park

Stephen Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Managing Director, Bain Capital, LLC

Steve Burns

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • President, Rahr Enterprises

Steven Izen

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Lokai

Stewart Rahr

Job Titles:
  • Philanthropist, Stewart J. Rahr Foundation

Sundeep Reddy

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President & Chief Accounting Officer, Salesforce

Suzette Olesen

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, Wish Assist

Tammy Gurowski

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Rochester Advisory Board

Tara White

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, Special Events & Community Fundraising

Taylor Nyhoff

Job Titles:
  • Principal, Apollo Global Management LLC

Terri Stockton Foulks

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • Chief People & Culture Officer

Thomas A. Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Tierney Remick

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chairman and Co - Leader, Board & CEO Services

Tiffany Williams

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Wish Relationship

Tom Queri

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner & Private Wealth Advisor, RDG Wealth Management, LLC

Tom Rosenecker

Job Titles:
  • Owner, American Eagle Fireplace & Playsets

Tracey Anton

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Editorial & Design Strategy

Tracie Rodburg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Senior Vice President, Sponsorship Management, National Football League

Tracy Gray

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Individual Giving - Buffalo

Trevor Freeland

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Managing Director, Deutsche Bank

Vaibhav Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Metro New York Junior Board

Valerie Nolasco

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Community Engagement & DEI

Victoria Lass

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager, Teach for America

Wendi Berger

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Annual Campaign

Wesley Alexander

Job Titles:
  • Director, Data & Technology

Whitney Reichenbacker - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer

William Brilliant

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Chairman / Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners

Yvonne Moss - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Legal Officer
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team