Leadership
Meet our leadership team and members of our Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Surjit Chana
Chair
Harvard Fellow at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
Marian Haas, MBA
Vice Chair
Judy Tabak
Secretary
Allen Kusinga Rumanyika, MBA, CPA
Treasurer
Director, Investment Operations at the Smithsonian Institution
Lloyd E. Bailey, MD
Member
Director, HIV Services at Citicare Family Health Center in New York
Caroline Morgan Berchuck, MD, MPH
Member
Associate Partner and Senior Expert at McKinsey & Company
Deliseย DuPont Blenman, MBA
Member
Customer experience strategist
Janardhan Cadambi
Member
Executive Vice President – Transformation, Risk and Operations LFI at Mastercard
Rakesh Chandra
Member
Technology and Operations Executive
Cynthia English
Member
Advocate, Shelter Specialist (Ret.)
Adrian Harrison, Jr., MBA
Member
Chief Operating Officer, Fross Zelnick
Robert L. Heckart, JD
Vice Chair
Senior Adviser and Member of the Steering Committee of the Initiative on Health and Homelessness of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health
Timothy Q. Karcher, JD
Member
Partner in the Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group of Proskauer Rose LLP
Grigor Licul, MA
Member
Co-Founder and Principal, Belvedere Advisors Team
Frances Melendez, PhD
Member
Director, Master of Arts Clinical Mental Health Counseling, CUNY College of Staten Island
Jane C. Parker
Member
Co-founder and Senior Advisor to “The Development”
Alyssa Schraier, MA, LCSW
Member
Deputy Director of Continuous Improvement, The Urban Assembly
Will Woods
Member
Advocate
Michael Ziegler, JD
Counsel to the Board
Adjunct professor at NYU, Columbia, and SUNY
Board Member from 1993 to 2003
Daniel Baldwin
Chair Emeritus
Former Chair
Board Member, 2012โ2024
Surjit Chana
Chair
Harvard Fellow at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
Marian Haas, MBA
Vice Chair
Judy Tabak
Secretary
Allen Kusinga Rumanyika, MBA, CPA
Treasurer
Director, Investment Operations at the Smithsonian Institution
Lloyd E. Bailey, MD
Member
Director, HIV Services at Citicare Family Health Center in New York
Caroline Morgan Berchuck, MD, MPH
Member
Associate Partner and Senior Expert at McKinsey & Company
Deliseย DuPont Blenman, MBA
Member
Customer experience strategist
Janardhan Cadambi
Member
Executive Vice President – Transformation, Risk and Operations LFI at Mastercard
Rakesh Chandra
Member
Technology and Operations Executive
Cynthia English
Member
Advocate, Shelter Specialist (Ret.)
Adrian Harrison, Jr., MBA
Member
Chief Operating Officer, Fross Zelnick
Robert L. Heckart, JD
Vice Chair
Senior Adviser and Member of the Steering Committee of the Initiative on Health and Homelessness of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health
Timothy Q. Karcher, JD
Member
Partner in the Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group of Proskauer Rose LLP
Grigor Licul, MA
Member
Co-Founder and Principal, Belvedere Advisors Team
Frances Melendez, PhD
Member
Director, Master of Arts Clinical Mental Health Counseling, CUNY College of Staten Island
Jane C. Parker
Member
Co-founder and Senior Advisor to “The Development”
Alyssa Schraier, MA, LCSW
Member
Deputy Director of Continuous Improvement, The Urban Assembly
Will Woods
Member
Advocate
Michael Ziegler, JD
Counsel to the Board
Adjunct professor at NYU, Columbia, and SUNY
Board Member from 1993 to 2003
Daniel Baldwin
Chair Emeritus
Former Chair
Board Member, 2012โ2024
Leadership
George Nashak
President and CEO
Tracey Costikyan Alexander
Chief Development and Communications Officer
David Ruan
Chief Financial & Administrative Officer
Tawana Hill, DO
Chief Medical Officer
Jonathan Santos-Ramos
Chief Program Officer
Denise LaPene
Vice President of Human Resources
Tesha Rose-Holcomb, MS
Vice President of Health Services
Simone Thompson, LMSW, MPA
Vice President of Residential Services
Julio Vincent Gambuto, MFA
Director of Marketing and Communications
Nathalie Interiano, MA
Director of Policy and Advocacy
Alex Malave
Executive Assistant to the C-Suite and Liaison to the Board of Directors
George Nashak
President and CEO
Tracey Costikyan Alexander
Chief Development and Communications Officer
David Ruan
Chief Financial & Administrative Officer
Tawana Hill, DO
Chief Medical Officer
Jonathan Santos-Ramos
Chief Program Officer
Denise LaPene
Vice President of Human Resources
Tesha Rose-Holcomb, MS
Vice President of Health Services
Simone Thompson, LMSW, MPA
Vice President of Residential Services
Julio Vincent Gambuto, MFA
Director of Marketing and Communications
Nathalie Interiano, MA
Director of Policy and Advocacy
Alex Malave
Executive Assistant to the C-Suite and Liaison to the Board of Directors
