Tenth Annual Business Leadership Breakfast

The annual Business Leadership Breakfast is the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund's premier networking event for professionals who support* the Federation's 2015 Campaign.

Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Kaplan, Chairman and CEO of The Melt
Business Leadership Award Honoree: Harry J. Saal, Ph.D., Chairman of Retrotope, Inc. 

* Donors to the Federation’s 2015 Campaign beginning at $1,000 are invited to register. $500 minimum gift required for registrants age 36 and under. Make your tax-deductible contribution today.

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$80, please register by April 14

COMMITTEE
Gregg Ficks and Danielle Pener, Co-Chairs
Mike Emrich, Daniel Frankenstein, Alan Levins, Reid Liebhaber, Sandra Lipkowitz,
Deborah Lopez, Eve Myers, Danielle Pener, Alex Rayter, Anthony Rozenvasser,
Mark Steiner, Joel Wagonfeld, Micah Yairi, Tony Zucker

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THANK YOU
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP BREAKFAST SPONSORS

BNY Mellon Manatt


Osterweis Capital Management | Seiler LLP

Primark Benefits | Wells Fargo  

Interests: , Young Adults
Date: 
April 21, 2015
TIME: 
12:00 AM
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Location: 
Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco
757 Market Street
City: 
San Francisco

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Organized By: 
Business Leadership Council of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund,
Event Contact Person: 
BLC Manager
415-369-2875
blc@sfjcf.org
Speakers: 
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Jonathan Kaplan, Chairman and CEO of The Melt
Jonathan Kaplan is a technology entrepreneur and consumer products visionary. He currently serves as Chairman and CEO of The Melt, a technology-driven fast casual restaurant business with locations throughout California. Prior to The Melt, Mr. Kaplan founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Pure Digital Technologies, maker of the popular Flip Video camcorder, which was acquired by Cisco in 2010. Mr. Kaplan also founded the Internet business, Family Wonder, which was sold to Sega in 2001. Mr. Kaplan is also active on several for-profit boards including PopSugar and Euclid Analytics.

Mr. Kaplan believes deeply in philanthropic endeavors and investing in future leaders. He serves as the Chairman of Education SuperHighway, a thriving nonprofit with the goal of bringing high-speed internet into all K-12 classrooms in America; and a member of Board of Directors of T4A.org, a non-profit encouraging civic participation and public/private technology partnerships. He envisioned and established Carnegie Mellon University's Open Field Entrepreneurs Fund which provides startup financing and business guidance for young university alumni.

Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University.
BUSINESS LEADER AWARD HONOREE Harry J. Saal, Ph.D., Chairman of Retrotope, Inc.
Harry J. Saal was founder and CEO of Network General Corporation, the first company wholly dedicated to the area of network diagnostics. In 2002, Dr. Harry J. Saal was chosen by the US Department of Justice to lead the Technical Committee charged with monitoring and enforcing the Microsoft Antitrust case, serving as Chairman through the 2011 expiration of the Judgment.
He has served as Director of several private and publically traded high technology firms, and as Deputy Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s Computation Group, and later as Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Harry is active in philanthropy and community affairs, and the recipient of numerous honors including: Ernst & Young’s Software Entrepreneur of the Year; the ACM/Computer Museum Computer Bowl MVP; the Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s Corporate Community Involvement Award; the American Leadership Forum’s John W. Gardener Leadership Award; the ADL Torch of Liberty Award; and the JNF Tree of Life Award.
Harry holds a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University and has received the university’s highest honor, the John Jay Award.