THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

Dennis R. Tarzian, President

Elected to the Board in 2018, Mr. Tarzian is a Managing Partner and Member of the Board of Directors at BCHT Holdings LLC, a privately held investment group. Prior to joining BCHT Holdings LLC, Mr. Tarzian was Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer and Managing Partner at National Registered Agents Inc., a legal services and technology firm. Previously, he was President and Chief Executive Officer for New Century Education, a privately held provider of instructional technology and computer-based training products. Mr. Tarzian received his MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and his B.S. in Systems Engineering and Computer Science from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He is a Member of the Board of Directors for the Karagheusian Foundation and is both a Member and Treasurer for the Fund for Armenian Relief.

Umber Ahmad, Vice President

Elected to the Board in 2008, Ms. Ahmad is CEO and Founder of Mah-Ze-Dahr Bakery, a renowned bakery concept in New York City and the Washington, D.C. areas. Prior to founding Mah-Ze-Dahr, Ms. Ahmad co-founded Specialized Capital Management, a boutique investment advisory firm. Previously, she was a Vice President in the Private Equity Group of Goldman Sachs and an associate in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley. She earned her MBA in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She also holds a M.P.H. in Public Health from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Biogenetics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David R. Adler, Treasurer

Elected to the Board in 2022, Mr. Adler is Chief Executive Officer of Adler Asset Management, LLC, a registered investment adviser. Previously, he spent twenty-five years in investment banking, including as a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group and as a managing director at J.P. Morgan in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Mr. Adler received his MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and his B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Investment Committee for the Worcester Art Museum Endowment.

Audrey MacIsaac, Secretary

Elected to the Board in 2021, Mrs. MacIsaac, a donor mother, is Chief Operating Officer of Montauk Labs, a New York City-based venture studio. Previously she was Vice President of Business Operations at Oracle Advertising & Marketing Cloud. Prior to that, she was Vice President of Business Operations at Moat, a SaaS analytics company, which was acquired by Oracle in 2017. She started her career off in investment banking followed by financial technology and continues to be focused on b2b technology. Mrs. MacIsaac graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics and has since served on the New York Wellesley Club Board. She resides in Brooklyn Heights with her husband and three children.

Leo Corbett

Elected to the Board in 2014, Mr. Corbett is a Managing Director of Community Partners, the pro bono consulting program to nonprofits of the Harvard Business School Club of New York. Previously, he was a managing partner of a seed-stage venture fund as well as an executive at Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers and Prudential Insurance. Additionally, he was COO of EMI Music Publishing and EMI Recorded Music. He has served in U.S. Government at the Congressional Budget Office, as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and as Associate Commissioner of the Social Security Administration and has experience in local, congressional, gubernatorial and presidential campaign management. He was a member of the Alumni Board of Harvard Business School and is a marathon runner (New York and Boston). Corbett received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his B.A. from Harvard University.

Giovanni DiCenso

Elected to the Board in 2004, Mr. DiCenso is currently a Tax Manager in the Merger and Acquisition Services Group at Deloitte and Touche LLP, New York. Since 1998, he has held several positions at this firm, including Senior Consultant with the International Tax Group in Philadelphia and Tax Manager with the National Transfer Pricing Team in Washington, D.C. Mr. DiCenso earned his LL.M. in International and Comparative Laws from Georgetown University Law Center, his J.D. from the Claude W. Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University and his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. Mr. DiCenso has also co-authored several research articles related to international tax and is fluent in Italian.

Rachel Heisler

Elected to the Board in 1999, Ms. Heisler is the Executive Director of American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Inc., a not-for-profit that supports Israel’s Soroka Medical Center. She was previously the founder and President of Tudor Healthcare Group, Inc., specializing in global nurse recruitment, and was a Vice President at Citigroup, with 15 years of banking experience for the retail industry. She has family experience with eye donation: Her son became a living eye donor following a traumatic accident. Ms. Heisler received her MBA from the William E. Simon School of Management at the University of Rochester and is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University.

Paul Kayaian

Elected in 2010, Mr. Kayaian is President of Mosaic Enterprises, LLC and a 25-year veteran of the business of global corporate sponsorship and marketing for a wide range of properties and events. Past clients include: Madison Square Garden, the NBA, NFL, XFL and NASCAR. He is one of the founders of the NBA’s International Division and was a Managing Director of the NFL’s European operations. Born and raised in New York City, Mr. Kayaian holds a B.A. in Marketing from St. John’s University and resides in Westchester County with his family. He recently published his first collection of short stories entitled "Day Rates, Night Sweats, and Often Barcelona In Between.”

Manish Krishnan

Elected to the Board in 2021, Manish Krishnan is the co-founder and Managing Director, North America, of Nagarro, a prominent digital product engineering and technology firm listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. In 2021, Nagarro acquired ATCS Inc., a global IT consulting firm which was founded by Mr. Krishnan. ATCS specializes in providing digital and analytic solutions to Fortune 500 clients in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, finance, and automotive industries, with over 1000 consultants across six countries. Mr. Krishnan holds an MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and an undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani, India. He completed an Executive Education program for Leading Professional Service Firms at Harvard Business School and was recognized as the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year for the New Jersey region in 2021.

Sruthi Madhavan

Elected to the Board in 2023, Ms. Madhavan is a Director at Strategy &, the strategy and management consulting business unit of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), in New York where she advises and supports the implementation of strategic initiatives for C-suite executives in financial, healthcare, retail and health tech sectors. Previously, she served as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs in Bangalore, India. She received her MBA from the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor and her B.E. with a Major in Computer Science from the PSG College of Technology in Tamil Nadu, India. Born into a family of ophthalmologists, Ms. Madhavan collaborated with local partners to expand affordable access to laser eye surgeries for underserved communities.

Michele Masucci

Elected to the Board in 2022, Ms. Masucci is a partner at Nixon Peabody LLP in the Health Services practice group, focusing on private equity transactions within the healthcare industry. Prior to her work at Nixon Peabody, she was a McDermott Will & Emery LLP partner. She also served as the in-house counsel at Northwell on Long Island (formerly North Shore University Hospital). In addition to her work with The Eye-Bank, Ms. Masucci sits on the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor Foundation board and is the Vice-Chair of the Board of RIP Medical Debt. She received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and her B.A. from Brown University.

Jeanne McCooey

Elected to the Board in 2018, Ms. McCooey is recently retired as Senior Managing Director of Communications for the Metropolitan Golf Association (MGA) where her career spanned for nearly 40 years. While there she was the founding staff member and contributing writer for The Met Golfer magazine, now in its 35th year in publication. She also was a founding member of the MGA Foundation, the charitable 501(c)(3) arm of the Association and served as its Director of Operations for 20 years. She is credited with creating GOLFWORKS, the Foundation’s flagship program that provides paid internships for at-risk youth at the association’s area country clubs. Ms. McCooey is the 2015 recipient of the MGA’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award. She is a graduate of Hunter College in New York with a B.A. in English.

Rachel Miller

Elected to the Board in 2024, Ms. Miller is a Principal at Deloitte. During her 26-year career, she has served as a trusted advisor to health care executives, shaping their operational and go to market strategies. Currently, she serves as the lead relationship partner for Northwell Health. Previously, Ms. Miller held the role of Director of Corporate Health at Liberty Healthcare and was the Administrator for the Department of Anesthesia at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital. She earned her B.A. from Colgate University and her M.H.A. from Cornell University. Ms. Miller is a member and past President of Cornell’s Sloan Alumni Association Board and a member of the Dean’s Board at Cornell’s Jeb E. Brooks College of Public Policy. She is a proud mother of three, including Gabriella, a cornea transplant recipient.

Richard Mittenthal

Elected to the Board in 1996, Mr. Mittenthal is President of TCC Group, a management consulting firm that provides planning, evaluation and grants management services. He joined the firm, formerly known as The Conservation Company, in 1989. He is a member of the International Network on Strategic Philanthropy, an initiative involving 58 individuals from North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Mittenthal spent 12 years at the New York Community Trust, where from 1983 to 1989 he served as a Vice President for Program, overseeing the discretionary grant program at the largest U.S. community foundation. Active in civic and cultural affairs, he served for six years as a mayoral appointee to the New York City Commission on Cultural Affairs. He currently serves on the boards of Symphony Space and the Alliance for the Arts and served as a Trustee of Meet the Composer, the American Symphony Orchestra League and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He received his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and is a graduate of Roosevelt University. Mr. Mittenthal is a bilateral cornea transplant recipient.

Jaclyn D. Newman

Elected to the Board in 2024, Ms. Newman is a Litigation and Trial Counsel at Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP, an elite boutique litigation firm in New York, representing clients from a wide array of industries in complex commercial litigation matters, including copyright infringement, breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty-based claims. Prior to her current role, Ms. Newman was a Litigation & Trial Attorney at Latham & Watkins LLP’s New York office, where she focused on complex commercial litigation and maintained an active pro bono practice focused on achieving clemency for domestic violence survivors. Ms. Newman earned her J.D. from Cornell University’s Law School and her B.A. from Binghamton University. A grateful cornea transplant recipient, she served as a community ambassador on The Eye-Bank’s Leadership Council for over five years before joining the Board.

Andrea Nordquist

Elected to the Board in 1996, Ms. Nordquist has long been active in local community and veteran affairs on Long Island, including serving as Chapter President of Military Blue Star Mothers of Nassau County and as Chairperson of Our Community Salutes of Nassau County. She also is a member of LINCMO and Nassau County VSA. Ms. Nordquist retired from the position of Director of Student Enrichment at St. Martin de Porres Marianist School in 2014. The Nordquists donated their son’s eyes to The Eye-Bank when he died in a tragic accident at the age of two and the Young Ambassador Scholarship was established in his memory. The scholarship is awarded each year to a high school senior or college student who has helped promote eye donation through a community service public education project.

Rocío Sanz

Elected to the Board in 2022, Ms. Sanz is the Chief Executive Officer of Sanz Property Management, Inc. and the owner of restaurants known as Tio Pepe, The Taco Shop, Burgers and Beer and Burrito Loco Mexican Restaurant. She is an active member of the New York City small business community, serving on the boards of the Community Housing Improvement Program, Small Property Owners of New York, and she is a long-serving member of Manhattan's Community Board Two. She received her B.A. from Hunter College in Manhattan. Ms. Sanz is personally connected to The Eye-Bank's mission as both her husband and her mother have received the gift of sight through cornea transplantation.

Michael Zambrelli

Elected to the Board in 2008, Mr. Zambrelli is President and Creative Director of Zambrelli, LLC, a New York based advertising agency which he founded in 1997. With an emphasis on creativity and strategic development, Zambrelli, LLC serves such clients as Chuck E. Cheese, Firmenich, New York Laundry and Sideways and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. Prior to forming his agency, Mr. Zambrelli worked with Ogilvy and Mather; Young and Rubicam; and Wells, Rich and Greene, with clients such as Proctor and Gamble, Sports Illustrated and General Foods. Mr. Zambrelli received his graduate degree from Harvard University and his B.A. from Harvard College.

Mel. M. Immergut

Elected to the Board in 1981, Mr. Immergut is the former Chairman of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy LLP (1995 – 2013) and has been a partner in the firm since 1980. Mr. Immergut has extensive experience in a wide variety of corporate transactional work, including merger and acquisition transactions, financing transactions, leveraged leasing and real estate finance. He is responsible for, among other clients, the firm’s representation of JP Morgan Partners, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, Anheuser-Busch, Astoria Financial, Mastercard, NASCAR, Tyson Foods, Tyco and William E. Simon and Sons. Mr. Immergut received his J.D. and MBA from Columbia University and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as a Trustee and Past-President of the American College of Investment. Mr. Immergut is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He serves on the Board of the Legal Aid Society and on the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.