The Jewish Executive Leadership Conference

The Jewish Executive Leadership Conference is LA’s largest interactive networking forum bringing high-level Jewish executives together with Jewish MBA and law students, young professionals, and entrepreneurs. Each year, hundreds of graduate students gather to hear experienced executives who are also community leaders impact upon them their career successes and the importance of young community leadership.

Our 9th Annual JEL Conference, generously sponsored by the Redstone Family, will be held on February 23, 2020 at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel in Santa Monica. This year’s Conference features keynote speakers ? and ?, along with approximately 50 other executive panelists representing leaders in the finance, legal services, entertainment, startup, technology, and real estate industries.

#JELCON2020

The 9th Annual JEL Conference

TOP SPEAKERS

NETWORKING

PHILANTHROPY

KEYNOTE FIRESIDE CHAT

We're excited to announce our two keynote fireside chat presenters for the 2019 Conference:‍

Susan Rovner, Executive Vice President of Warner Bros. Television and Co-President of Warner Horizon Scripted Television

READ SUSAN's BIO

Here's a mini bio on Susan Rovner

Michele Nadelman, Chief Financial Officer of Warner Bros. Records

READ MICHELE's BIO

Here's a mini bio on Susan Rovner

Our Speakers

Presenters at the JEL Conference have included such A-list luminaries as Shari Redstone (Viacom), Ron Meyer (NBCUniversal), Alan Horn (Disney), Gene Simmons (KISS), Scooter Braun (SB Projects), Elaine Wynn (Wynn Resorts), and Craig Newmark (Craigslist).

To view an extensive list of some of our past speakers, click the link below.
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View Past Speakers

2019 MODERATORS

Jonathan Bluth

Director/Co-Head of Heathcare, Intrepid

Matt Edelman

Chief Commercial Officer, Super League Gaming

Ken Firtel

Founder & Managing Partner, Transom Capital Group

Jeri Harman

Founder & Chairman, Avante Mezzanine Partners

Stacy Harrison

Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

Lindsey Kozberg

Principal, Park & Velayos LLP

Dave Mirsky

Co-Founder & CEO, Pacific Rim Capital, Inc.

Scott Sandler

SVP and Investment Counselor, Capital Group Private Client Services

Larraine Segil

Chairman of the Board, Kandela; CEO, The Little Farm Company

2019 Panelists

Alec Andronikov

General Partner, NDCapital

Lorna Auerbach

President/CEO, Auerbach Realty Holdings, LLC.

Jonathan Barach

President & Co-Founder, Vista Investment Group

Todd Barasch

VP Product & Portfolio Management, Disney Media Networks

Leslie Belzberg

SVP of Production in L.A., Gaumont

Jeff Berman

Co-Founder, Magnet Companies

Ted Fentin

Partner & Managing Director, AECOM Capital Real Estate

Jerry Fine

President, Revere Financial Corporation

Eric Fleiss

Managing Director and CEO, Regent Properties

Robert Freedman

Chairman & CEO, Hurel Corporation

Amy Friedlander Hoffman

Head of Business Development & Experiential Marketing, Uber

David Geller

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Logical Medical Systems, Inc.

Adam Goldberg

Executive Producer, Microsoft Studios

Jim Hausberg

Managing Director & Partner, HighTower Advisors, LLC

Houman Hemmati

Co-Founder/CSO, Levation Pharma, Ltd.

Andrew Howard

Partner, Shamrock Capital Advisors

Aya Jakobovits

Founder, Director & Senior Strategic Advisor, Adicet Bio, Inc.

Jordan Katz

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Angeles Equity Partners

Andrew Kline

Founder & Managing Director, Park Lane

Victor Kohn

President, Capital International, Inc

Rick Levy

Founding Partner & General Counsel, ICM Partners

Ralph Levy

SVP & Corporate Controller, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group

Sheldon Liber

CEO & CIO, Chasing Value Asset Management

Ellen Lubman

Chief Business Officer, Impel Neuropharma; Founder, Bella Biotech Advisory, LLC

Bernard May

CEO, National Positions

Ari Nadelman

President, LionFish Properties

Mike Newman

Chief Executive Officer, MediaPlatform, Inc.

Wes Nichols

Board Partner, Upfront Ventures

Scott Packman

Principal, SSP Partners; Former EVP, GC & Sec'y, MGM Studios

Josh Resnick

CEO, Sugarfina

Rebecca Rothstein

Managing Director, The RVR Group

Mark Shedletsky

Founder & CEO, Vertical Mass

Jason Shuman

Owner, Jason Shuman Productions

Sergey Sundukovskiy

Co-Founder, CTO & CPO, Raken

Alex Zuckerman

Senior Vice President, Great American Capital Partners, LLC

NETWORKING

In addition to our featured VIP speakers, the following attorneys and executives are slated to attend our Networking Hour exclusive to Conference participants:
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Alan Abramson, B&A Management Corp.
Ofer Barlev, Citron & Deutsch
Russ Belinsky, Duff & Phelps
Aviva Bergman, The Point Media
Olga Berson , Morgan Lewis
Richard Citron, Citron & Deutsch
Brian Davidoff, Greenberg Glusker
Rebecca Edelson, Sheppard Mullin
Darren Freedman, Troy Gould
Jim Freedman, Intrepid Investment Bankers
Lauren Fried, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Scott Friedman, Bellami Hair
Seth Gerber, Morgan Lewis
Joel Gerson, Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman LLP
Matthew Gruenberg , DLA Piper
Sabina Jacobs Margot, Gibson Dunn
Darren Kavinoky, The Kavinoky Law Firm
Michael Kohn, Dick Clark Productions
Marc Levine, Levine & Maybaum LLP
Paul Menes, ADLI Law Group
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Larry Midler, CBRE, Inc.
Doug Mirell, Greenberg Glusker
Richard Pink, Richard Pink & Associates
Robert Rosen, Rosen & Associates, P.C.
Mitch Rosenthal, Riot Games
Dean Rostovsky, Clarion Partners
Sam Sani, Sani Law
Ronie Schmelz, Tucker Ellis
Mauro Schnaidman, Jafra Cosmetics International
Sander Schwartz, Sandman Television + Film
Michael Sigall, Wolf Rifkin
Brette Simon, AccelFoods
Hadas Sparfeld, Hager Pacific Properties
Alan Stern, Winstar Properties, Inc
Lisa Stern, Law Office of Lisa Stern
Nora Stilestein, SheppardMullin
Mark Wapnick, Court Call, LLC
Steven Weinberg, Holmes Weinberg, PC
Craig Winterman, Herzfeld & Rubin
Joseph Woolf, Trowbridge Capital

NONPROFIT PARTNERS

The JEL Conference proudly showcases a full range of Los Angeles’ premier Jewish nonprofits, such as the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, Gift of Life, Hillel, Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee and others, who present volunteering and leadership opportunities to conference participants.

In this way, the JEL Conference represents the pinnacle of JGSI’s trademark fusion of Jewish community leadership with business acumen, effectively inspiring Jewish graduate students and young professionals to become active leaders of the Jewish community while simultaneously helping their own careers through the speakers’ invaluable advice.
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