Chairman Robert J. Appel, President of Appel Associates, heads Jazz at Lincoln Center’s board of directors, joined by a distinguished group of leaders from all facets of society who are committed to our mission of expanding jazz’s global reach.
Robert J. Appel
Chairman; President, Appel Associates
Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn,
Vice Chair; Commissioner, NYC Commission on Women's Issues
John Arnhold
Treasurer; Chairman and CIO of First Eagle Investment Management
Robert H. Burns
Chairman, Robert H. Burns Hotel Group
Valentino D. Carlotti
Partner, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Richard M. Cashin
Managing Partner, One Equity Partners
Diane M. Coffey
Vice Chair; Managing Director, Peter J. Solomon Co., L.P.
ALAN D. COHN
Senior Vice President, Wealth Management, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Stephen S. Daniel
Managing Partner, Seyron Partners LLC.
Gordon J. Davis
Founding Chairman; Partner, Venable LLP.
Diana Roesch DiMenna
Viet Dinh
Founding Partner, Bancroft PLLC
Gail May Engelberg
Trustee, The Engelberg Foundation
Mica Ertegun
President and Owner, MACII
Hughlyn F. Fierce
Retired Banking Executive, JPMorgan Chase
Michael D. Fricklas
Secretary; Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Viacom Inc.
Larry Gagosian
Gagosian Gallery
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
Marlene Hess
Former Managing Director of Global Philanthropic Services at JPMorgan Private Bank
Thomas H. Lee
President, Thomas H. Lee Capital, LLC
Edward T. Lewis
Senior Advisor, Solera Capital
Wynton Marsalis
Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Peter Norton
President, Peter Norton Family Foundation
Robert G. O'Meally
Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Columbia University
Clarence Otis
CEO, Darden Restaurants
Mark R. Patterson
Vice Chair; Chairman, MatlinPatterson Global Advisors
Charles E. Phillips, Jr.
CEO, Infor Global Solutions
Michael F. Price
Founder, MFP Investors
Ashley Schiff Ramos
Keith Reinhard
Chairman Emeritus, DDB Worldwide
Adam R. Rose
Co-President, Rose Associates, Inc.
Mark Rosenthal
Jack Rudin
Vice Chair; Co-Chairman, Rudin Management Co., Inc.
Arthur J. Samberg
Manager, Hawkes Financial LLC
Lisa Schiff
Chairman Emeritus; Managing Director, After Nine Holdings
Paul C. Schorr, IV
Founding Managing Partner, Augusta Columbia Capital
Melanie Shorin
Chair, Chairman's Circle; Founder, Narrative Trust
H. Marshall Sonenshine
Chairman, Soneshine Partners LLC
David J. Stern
Commissioner, National Basketball Association
Faye Wattleton
Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal
George Wein
Chairman, Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.
Emeriti Directors
June Noble Larkin
Chairman and President, Edward J. Noble Foundation
Albert Murray
Novelist, Cultural Historian
Jonathan F.P. Rose
President, Jonathan Rose Companies
Ex-Officio Members
Hon. Michael R. Bloomberg
Mayor of the City of New York
Commissioner Robert B. Tierney
Designee
Hon. Christine Quinn
Speaker of the New York City Council
Lola C. West
Designee
Hon. Scott Stringer
President of the Borough of Manhattan
Maggi Peyton
Designee
† Deceased