CHIC WOLK, Co-Founder is a founding member of the Board of Directors of The Survivor Mitzvah Project and Cofounder and Treasurer of SMP. Mr. Wolk is a businessman and committed philanthropist. He attended Loyola College School of Law in Chicago and served for two and a half years in the United States Air Force during and after World War II. Now retired, Mr. Wolk was formerly CEO of Charter Parking and Managing Partner of Five Star Parking. Mr. Wolk is CFO and Director of the Foundation for Consumers Rights and is the Honorary Consul of Kyrgyz Republic in Los Angeles. He served as Chairman of the American Friends of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute and presently serves on the Board of the California Institute of Yiddish Culture.

RICHARD NATHAN is a founding member of the Board of Directors of The Survivor Mitzvah Project. He resides and practices law in Denver, Colorado. His 39-year legal career included 8 years as Director of the government’s Organized Crime Strike Force based in Denver and as Colorado’s First Assistant Attorney General in charge of Criminal Justice. Since 1982 Mr. Nathan’s private practice of law has evolved into an exclusive specialization in international regulatory law and business transactions. He has had a long commitment to community-based service in the Jewish community. In 1982 he and his wife Karin, together with an Israeli couple, founded the Kesher project which sent U.S. families to Israel for one month periods to live and work in Israeli communities, a project sponsored by the Allied Jewish Federation of Denver. In 1987 Mr. Nathan was awarded the Adolph Kiesler award as the Outstanding Young Jewish Leader in Denver by the Allied Jewish Federation. He served as Chairman of the Allied Jewish Federation’s Israel Programs Committee from 1987 to 1996 and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Federation from 1990 to 1996. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Jewish Committee from 1982 to 1987.

PHIL JOFFE is a founding member of the Board of Directors of The Survivor Mitzvah Project. Former Director, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, CalFarm Insurance Company, he is also the former president and director of CalFarm Life Insurance Company and a former CPA with Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Joffe participates as a Co-founder and Director of the Carrera-Joffe Foundation and is the former director of several not-for-profit organizations. Currently, Mr. Joffe and his wife Margaret Carrera, are owners of Symphony Farms, the home of Rociero XV, formally top ranked PRE Grand Prix dressage horse in the country and are presently competing their other horses throughout the country.

CONAN BERKELEY is a founding member of the Board of Directors of The Survivor Mitzvah Project. He has spent thirty years in the Entertainment Industry as an Executive Producer of television and as a Talent Manager. In New York City, he was co-founder of the legendary comedy club CATCH A RISING STAR, where he was also a performer. Moving to California with his band, B&B, he went on to become a comedy writer and producer. Mr. Berkeley has developed pilots and series at ABC, UPN, The WB, Warner Brothers, and FBC, spearheading development deals for his production companies at Castle Rock, Columbia/Tristar and Paramount Pictures Television. He is involved with The Survivor Mitzvah Project’s Holocaust Video Archive and is a Producer of the SMP’s documentary film, FAMILY OF STRANGERS. Mr. Berkeley has lent his time and energy to the SMP since its inception.

STUART SAMUEL GOLDBERG is an experienced operations executive with over twenty years of leadership in workplace operations, risk management, and organizational development. He currently serves as Vice President of Facilities and Administration at Innocean USA, an award-winning advertising agency based in Huntington Beach, CA. There he oversees all aspects of office operations, leading a team of in-house staff and outsourced service providers for a high-touch boutique advertising agency. Awarded Best Places to Work by AdAge magazine, 2022. Stuart is also a director at large of the International Facilities Management Association’s Orange County chapter and has previously served on several business improvement district and homeowner association boards.

Prior to moving to California, over a 13-year tenure, Stuart was Senior Director of Facilities at SIRIUS XM SATELLITE RADIO, Washington, DC / New York, NY / Los Angeles, CA. There he spearheaded Design and construction management of renovations and new spaces, including broadcast and performance studios, tech start-up space, data center, and open office plan, in partnership with IT and Critical Systems Engineering teams.

A skilled communicator and lifelong learner, Stuart will complete his Doctorate in Education from the University of Southern California in 2026. Driven by a strong commitment to justice, memory, and community, Stuart joined the Board of The Survivor Mitzvah Project to support Holocaust survivors living in Eastern Europe and to help preserve their stories for future generations. He joined SMP’s Humanitarian Expedition to Belarus and Lithuania serving as Still Photographer and Sound Recordist for the Holocaust testimonies and historical site filming in those countries. Stuart brings a strategic perspective, operational expertise, and heartfelt dedication to SMP’s humanitarian efforts.

RABBI MOSHE J. KUSHMAN, of Blessed Memory, was a founding member of the Board of Directors of The Survivor Mitzvah Project. He was a tax partner with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom LLP, specializing in Federal income taxation, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, international tax planning, and the taxation of financial products. Rabbi Kushman served as a member of the adjunct faculty of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and the CSUN Bookstein Institute of Taxation. He also served on the Planning Committee of the U.S.C. Institute on Federal Taxation and the Advisory and Program Planning Board of the Master of Science in Taxation Program of California State University, Northridge, and was recognized in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Rabbi Kushman wrote Echo From A Lost Generation about The Survivor Mitzvah Project’s efforts to bring aid to the last survivors of the Holocaust.