Title Businessman & Philanthropist; Former CEO Company Timberland Bio Jeff spent 26 years at The Timberland Company, a publically traded (NYSE) global brand of footwear and apparel, the last 15 years as CEO. He was the third generation of his family to lead the Company. During that time, Jeff served a variety of leading edge social change organizations, including 10 years as the Board Chair of City Year, and as a director on the boards of Share our Strength, the Harlem Children’s Zone, and the Climate Group. Jeff was also active in the Jewish community, serving for 7 years as Board Chair of the Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts, and as a board member for Boston’s CJP. In 2011, he led the sale of Timberland to VF Corporation, and refocused his professional efforts on sustainable social change. Jeff currently invests his efforts in helping social entrepreneurs build scalable, sustainable organizations and social movements that aim to solve real, thorny civic challenges, both in Israel and the United States. In the United States, he partners with Share Our Strength on their national campaign to end childhood hunger, and with Partners in Health to make sustainable healthcare solutions available to every human on Earth. In Israel, Jeff ‘s efforts aim to strengthen Israel as a Jewish democracy. He serves on the Executive Board of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, as a board member of haShomer haChadash, and as the founding Board Chair of MAOZ-SEAL, a leadership program in Israel for extraordinary Israeli social change agents. Jeff received his MBA from Dartmouth in 1984, and a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown in 1982. He is deep into his third learning of the Babylonian Talmud.