David Hirsch is a pioneering social entrepreneur who, for three decades, has spearheaded ventures and agencies that challenge the status quo, disrupt complacent markets and promote the public interest.

He has served as President & Chair of B’nai Jeshurun (BJ) synagogue, one of the country’s oldest religious institutions, President & Chair of New York Cares, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Chicago NORC, the nation’s largest non-military think-tank and is Co-founder of National Center for Jewish Healing, an association of clinics for the spiritual care of the sick and dying.