AHF - Key Persons


Cory Perez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Dan Plaut

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Diane M. Rossi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Frank Coffey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Jacques Bloch

Job Titles:
  • Our Founder
Our founder, Jacques Bloch, cemented his place in foodservice history in 1982, when he became the first hospital foodservice director to be honored with the Gold Plate Award from the International Food Manufacturers Association (IFMA). Bloch spent most of his career as the director of food and nutrition at Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, New York. In 1967 he co-founded one of the two national foodservice associations that merged in 2009 to become Association for Healthcare Foodservice (AHF).

Keith Fitzgerald

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Leslie Rosen

Job Titles:
  • President of the Board

Livia Lam

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Board Member / Education

Marc Fuchs

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Mimi Wang

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer of the Board

Ninel Novak

Job Titles:
  • Secretary of the Board

Patrick LaMont - President

Job Titles:
  • Immediate past President
  • Member of the Board
  • President
  • Director of Food and Nutrition / Brookdale Hospital

Patty Sobol

Job Titles:
  • Account Executive
  • Member of the Board

Simone Nicolas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • President Elect

Stephanie Giraulo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Stephen Chow

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Tania Collazo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Veronica McLymont

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board