New York Real Estate Executive and Philanthropist Lloyd Goldman to Assume Presidency of Americans for Ben-Gurion University
New York Real Estate Executive and Philanthropist Lloyd Goldman to Assume Presidency of Americans for Ben-Gurion University
May 29, 2012
NEW YORK, May 29, 2012 – New York real estate executive and philanthropist Lloyd Goldman has been elected the next president of American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Americans for Ben-Gurion University). The national organization is based in Manhattan and has nine regional offices around the country. Goldman will assume office in September 2012. The announcement follows the Americans for Ben-Gurion University board meeting held on May 15th in Israel at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beer-Sheva.
Goldman, who is currently first vice president of Americans for Ben-Gurion University, will succeed current President Alexander M. Goren and will serve a two-year term. The president-elect has served as a member of Americans for Ben-Gurion University’s executive committee, as well as its budget and finance committee. He has also been a member of the international board of governors of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev since 2006.
“Ben-Gurion University is the foundation for research and development in the Negev, as well as the center of medicine and education,” Goldman explains. “I look forward to advancing these areas of development and to my new role on Americans for Ben-Gurion University’s board to further promote BGU’s mission throughout the United States.”
Lloyd Goldman, individually and as a trustee of the Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation, has long played a leadership role in supporting Ben-Gurion University. He is active in the work of the international academic review committee for BGU’s Joyce and Irving Goldman Medical School, named after his parents. The foundation’s most recent contribution to Americans for Ben-Gurion University was a $2.5 million gift to establish a medical simulation center in BGU’s Faculty of Health Sciences. The center will train future doctors, nurses and paramedics, using sophisticated technology and mannequins that simulate childbirth, bleeding, heart attacks, trauma, and a host of medical emergencies.
“Lloyd has played a central part in both Americans for Ben-Gurion University’s and the University’s growth and development. He brings extraordinary insight, experience and acumen to bear as we embark on a new era of outreach and expansion,” says Doron Krakow, executive vice president of Americans for Ben-Gurion University. “We are enormously proud of the partnership we have with the Goldman family. Lloyd and his sisters Dorian and Katja, active leaders on behalf of our joint efforts, are steadfastly dedicated to Israel, to the Negev and to Ben-Gurion University.”
Lloyd Goldman is principal and president of BLDG Management Co., Inc. and its affiliated entities, with significant real estate holdings that include residential, commercial and industrial properties around the United States, including the new World Trade Center site. He is involved in many nonprofit organizations, including Conservation International, The Educational Alliance and the We Are Family Foundation. He is a trustee of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and is vice chairman of the Health System Foundation. He serves on M&T Bank’s New York City Director’s Advisory Council and Mortgage Investment Council.
Goldman resides in Manhattan with his wife Victoria, an education consultant and author of the Manhattan Family Guide to Private Schools (in its sixth edition).
ABOUT AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY
By supporting a world-class academic institution that not only nurtures the Negev, but also shares its expertise locally and globally, Americans for Ben-Gurion University engages a community of Americans who are committed to improving the world. David Ben-Gurion envisioned that Israel’s future would be forged in the Negev. The cutting-edge research carried out at Ben-Gurion University drives that vision by sustaining a desert Silicon Valley, with the “Stanford of the Negev” at its center. The Americans for Ben-Gurion University movement supports a 21st century unifying vision for Israel by rallying around BGU’s remarkable work and role as an apolitical beacon of light in the Negev desert.
About Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev embraces the endless potential we have as individuals and as a commonality to adapt and to thrive in changing environments. Inspired by our location in the desert, we aim to discover, to create, and to develop solutions to dynamic challenges, to pose questions that have yet to be asked, and to push beyond the boundaries of the commonly accepted and possible.
We are proud to be a central force for inclusion, diversity and innovation in Israel, and we strive to extend the Negev’s potential and our entrepreneurial spirit throughout the world. For example, the multi-disciplinary School for Sustainability and Climate Change at BGU leverages over 50 years of expertise on living and thriving in the desert into scalable solutions for people everywhere.
BGU at a glance:
20,000 students | 800 senior faculty | 3 campuses | 6 faculties: humanities & social sciences, health sciences, engineering sciences, natural sciences, business & management, and desert research.
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