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. 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.

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. Ms. Kelley 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. She is Executive Director of the Peter C. Alderman Foundation, and has also worked as a consultant to several non-profits. She began her career as an attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and subsequently at Pavia & Harcourt, specializing in corporate and banking law and international financing. Since 1997, she has served on the board of Riverdale Neighborhood House, a settlement house in the Northwest Bronx. She is a trustee of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.

SOLOMON B. WATSON IV retired as Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Officer of The New York Times Company after three decades of service. Named general counsel in 1989, he was responsible for the legal and governance affairs of all company operations, including The New York Times. Prior joining The Times Company he was an attorney at Bingham,Dana & Gould (1971-1974). Mr. Watson was a lieutenant in the US Army Military Police Corps (1966-1968). He is a director of The Hudson River Foundation.

CLAIRE HAAGA ALTMAN was the Executive Director of ReServe for over two years and joined the HealthCare Chaplaincy as a Project Director in October 2008. Ms. Altman was the founder and President of Housing and Services, Inc. (HSI) where she worked for two decades in the affordable housing field. She served as associate director of the Vera Institute of Justice, where she designed, managed and obtained financing for a variety of employment and human service projects. She also founded the Highbridge-Woodycrest Extended Care Network, a nonprofit health network that includes a residential health care facility for persons living with AIDS, the Olive Leaf Wholeness Center, an integrated health center and Woodycrest House, a residence for families with HIV and AIDS.