Head of Board

Sharon Ordover is an attorney with over 30 years of experience. Sharon started her legal career at the Law Firm of Epstein, Becker & Green before moving into the corporate sector where she was appointed the Corporate Counsel of the DSN Companies, an affiliation of insurance companies and service contract administrators. She thereafter joined Active International, a New York based corporate trading company where she was ultimately promoted to EVP, General Counsel. Sharon is currently the SVP, General Counsel of Evergreen Trading, a media trading firm that purchases media on behalf of it clients and allows them to pay a portion of such advertising with its surplus assets. Sharon's legal experience is diverse and includes corporate transactional work, such as mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, complex financing arrangements, employment-related law, intellectual property, corporate governance and compliance, insurance and real estate. Sharon holds a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, an M.S.W. from Wurzweiler School of Social Work and a B.A. from Clark University. She holds certificates in Mediation and Divorce Mediation from the New York Center for Interpersonal Development. She serves as a Board member and Secretary/Treasurer of Beineinu NYC, Inc. and has recently been elected to the Board of Managers of the condominium where she lives with her husband, Mark, and son, Matthew. Sharon is also the mother of three other children, Danielle, Ryan and Emily.

Isaac grew up in upstate New York. He graduated in 1995 from the State College at Buffalo where he received a B.A in Business Administration. In his spare time he enjoys coaching his kids soccer team, going to boot camp and skiing. He currently resides in Manhattan with his wife Sondra and two children, Ryan and Ava. Isaac is heavily involved in charitable causes and won the 32nd annual Advisor With Heart award in 2012, where Registered Rep. selects men and women in the industry whose commitment to charitable causes goes above and beyond. Isaac drives a van every Tuesday night that provides meals and clothes for the homeless in New York City and has been doing this for 8 years.

Architect, principal of Tesoro Architects, a New York City architectural firm servicing institutional, commercial and residential clients since 1985. He taught architectural design and drawing at Columbia and Carnegie-Mellon Universities. He has a Fulbright Fellowship (Architectural Conservation) in Rome, Italy and holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie-Mellon University, 1975.

Robert Kanter is an EMMY Award-winning film and television producer, having been honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the film Voices of the Children. He is currently producing the film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Log from The Sea of Cortez with James Franco and a feature dramatic film based on a true story, Treetop. The film he coproduced, Citizen Havel, had its U.S. premiere recently at Lincoln Center and features, among others, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and The Rolling Stones. Other films he has produced include: Havel’s Audience with History with Václav Havel and Paul Newman, directed by Academy Award-winning director Jiri Menzel; Where Dreams Debut with Gregory Peck, Jean Stapleton and Isaac Stern; Making Dance American with Tommy Tune and Agnes DeMille; and a television special at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival with Aaron Copland, among others. He has worked extensively in Latin America, including the production of more than 10 documentaries and a 6-part telenovela. He has produced several projects as well for non-profits such as Hadassah, UJA-Federation of New York, and New York University Langone Medical Center.

He has been a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and has served on the media panel of the New York State Council on the Arts. His work has been published in The Washington Post as well as other publications. He is an honorary trustee of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in New York City and a board member of Twelve in Twelve Foundation.

Larry Zuckerman is a veteran journalist who has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines for more than 30 years. Larry was a reporter at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune. He was also a staff writer at Time Magazine and associate editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. From 2006 to 2016, Larry was an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. In addition to serving on the board of Beineinu, he has also been a longtime trustee of the American Jewish Historical Society. Larry is a longtime resident of the Upper West Side and has three kids.