SUSAN L. SOLOMON: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION

Fuente: http://nyscf.org/about-us/board-of-directors/item/228-susan-l-solomon-chief-executive-officer

Susan L. Solomon is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF), a non-profit organization established in 2005 to accelerate cures through stem cell research.

A longtime health-care advocate, Ms. Solomon is a founding member and current President of NYAMR (New Yorkers for the Advancement of Medical Research), is on the Executive Committee for the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine, and she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, New York Chapter. Ms. Solomon was also a member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Empire State Stem Cell Board. In March 2008, Ms. Solomon received a New York State Women of Excellence Award from the Governor of New York. In September 2008, she received the Triumph Award from the Brooke Ellison Foundation for her work in establishing NYSCF.

Prior to founding NYSCF, Ms. Solomon, an attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton, spent much of her career building businesses. She established and ran Solomon Partners LLC to provide strategic management consulting to corporations, cultural institutions, foundations and non-profit organizations. She was the founding Chief Executive Officer of Sothebys.com. She has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lancit Media Productions, an Emmy award-winning children’s television production company, and as the President of Sony Worldwide Networks. Ms. Solomon has also held executive positions at MacAndrews and Forbes Holdings and MMG Patricof and Co., and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Regional Plan Association of NY.

She received her BA from New York University and her JD from Rutgers University School of Law. She has three sons and is married to Paul Goldberger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer on architecture.