Wendy Harrison Hashmall

Co-President

Wendy holds a J.D. and LL.M. from New York University School of Law and a BA cum laude from Brandeis University. She worked most of her career at Random House, first as Associate General Counsel, later as Director of Business Affairs and Vice President and Associate Publishing Director of the Children’s Publishing Group where she was in charge of all the major deals with authors, artists, and licensors, as well as being an active member of the Group Publishing Board and Steering Committees which brainstormed with the President and CEO about creating new business opportunities. Wendy has been doing volunteer work and fundraising for non-profits for over 30 years including The Flea Theater, NYU School of Law, and The Ethical Culture Fieldston Schools.  She is currently serving as Secretary on the Board of Trustees of The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, NY and is an Associate Producer of the award-winning documentary Four Winters.

Karol W. Todrys

Co-President

Karol served as a Co-President from 2010 – 2013 and President from 2014 – 2015. She graduated from Cornell University with an AB with Distinction and pursued Ph.D. studies in linguistics at the University of Chicago. As a Learning Leader volunteer at P.S. 151 in Manhattan, she tutored elementary school children and chaired the committee of tutors at the school for eleven years. Karol has also helped run volunteer programs at the Horace Mann School and has been involved in fundraising for the Legal Aid Society and the Yale Parents Annual Fund. She has been a member of NCJW NY since 2005, when she began tutoring in its Children’s Literacy Program.

Meredith Barnett

Vice President

Meredith Barnett is a content and brand expert with broad experience creating and cultivating brand identities and brand positioning for clients in industries such as fashion, beauty, real estate, and interior design. Her clients have ranged from individual executives to startups to established brands, and have included eBay, Matouk, The Laundress, Tory Burch, Draper James, Cover FX, and others. She also regularly partners with major branding and public relations agencies on client projects. She is a strategic communicator, a strong public speaker, and a skilled writer with a keen sense for using brand storytelling to further customer engagement. She has her MBA from Harvard Business School and her B.A. from Brown University. She is a volunteer counselor for NCJWNY’s Pregnancy Loss Support Program and a member of the Board of the Christ Church Day School in New York, where she also served as President of the Parents’ Association. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and three young children.

Susan Sack

Treasurer

Susan serves as Managing Director of Real Estate at the Robin Hood Foundation. Robin Hood is a non-profit organization that fights poverty in New York City by applying investment principals to charitable giving and supporting the strongest, most effective programs helping the city’s poor build better lives for themselves and their families. At Robin Hood, Susan is responsible for the foundation’s Capital Grant Initiative, a program which provides technical assistance and funding to help grantee organizations with real estate and facilities issues. In addition, she manages Robin Hood’s Library Initiative, which builds libraries in public elementary schools across New York City. Prior to joining Robin Hood, Susan was a Vice President in the Merchant Banking division at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where she was responsible for financing real estate for the Whitehall funds (Goldman Sachs’ proprietary real estate fund). Before Goldman Sachs, she spent six years as an associate in the real estate department at Sullivan & Cromwell. Susan earned a BA from Wellesley College in 1989 and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. She has served on the board of NCJW NY since 1999.

Lisa R. Dell

Secretary

Lisa worked in the Office of the New York State Attorney General’s Office for 35 years and retired in July 2019 from her position as Bureau Chief of the New York City Litigation Bureau.  She held that position for seven years and prior to her appointment as Bureau Chief, she held high-level managerial positions within the Bureau. The Bureau is comprised of approximately 120 individuals (attorneys and paraprofessionals), and represents state officials, state agencies, public boards and authorities in a wide range of federal and state litigation. Lisa is an experienced litigator, having prevailed in all her federal trials, and is an effective and forceful advocate. She also served as a mentor to many junior attorneys, was a frequent lecturer and until her retirement, and served as the Attorney General’s representative on the Federal-State Judicial Council. Prior to her government service, she worked in private practice at a corporate law firm. Lisa has a B.A. from Washington University (Phi Beta Kappa) and a J.D. from Cardozo Law School (Law Review).

Gail Hochman

Gail is President of Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc., where she has worked since 1983. She is the President of the Association of Authors’ Representatives (the AAR), the one professional organization of literary and theatrical agents in the U.S., and you can always find her with her nose in a book (or a manuscript). In 2006, she was awarded NCJW NY’s Jane Strauss Award for her dedication to bringing authors to speak at various Council programs. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Her son Jacob is a graduate of Pomona College and lives in Paris, France; her daughter Elena is a graduate of Carleton. Gail is the daughter of long-time Board member Estelle Hochman.

Elaine Mandelbaum

Elaine currently serves as the General Counsel at Interactive Brokers. Prior to that, Elaine was General Counsel of Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement of the Citi Institutional Clients Group. Her group was responsible for all litigation, internal investigations and regulatory inquiries and related investigations, sweeps and enforcement proceedings for Citi’s institutional businesses, including investment banking, sales and trading, capital markets origination and private banking.

Prior to starting at Citigroup in 1997, Ms. Mandelbaum was a litigation attorney at the New York office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, and previously at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She is a member of the SIFMA Compliance & Legal Society Executive Committee, and is on the Board of Directors of the Legal Action Center and the American Friends of Hebrew University. She is a frequent speaker on topics relating to complex securities litigation, as well as internal and regulatory investigations. Ms. Mandelbaum is a graduate of Yale College and of Harvard Law School.

Ilene Marquardt

Ilene Marquardt is the Head of Legal Engagement for the Client Relationship Group (CRG) of Wells Fargo Advisors, reporting to the Head of CRG. In this role, Ilene is responsible for managing CRG’s overall business interaction with Wells Fargo’s legal department on litigation, employment, and regulatory enforcement matters, working with counsel and providing a business perspective in the development of legal strategy. Ilene also is Corporate Representative for certain litigation matters where she attends mediations and negotiations, and she works closely with the Head of CRG and other senior leaders on legal and other risk matters that require escalation.

Before joining Wells Fargo Advisors’ business team, Ilene was Assistant General Counsel for Wells Fargo Advisors, where she led a team of attorneys and other professionals who provide legal advice and counseling for the sales channels, services, and operations of the company. In that role Ilene also sat on the Wells Fargo Advisors Operating Committee and was Legal Secretary to Wells Fargo Clearing Services and other related legal entities.

Ilene has been an attorney in the securities industry for more than 30 years. Before joining the Wells Fargo Legal Department in 2019, she spent more than 24 years at UBS, where she held multiple roles, including Head of Litigation and Regulatory, and Interim General Counsel in UBS’s Wealth Management USA division. Early in her career, she was a litigation associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in their New York office.

Ilene earned a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a juris doctorate from New York University School of Law. She was the 2021 Chair of FINRA’s National Adjudicatory Council, serves on SIFMA’s Compliance and Legal Executive Committee, and is a member of both the New York and New Jersey bars. In 2018, she had the great honor to receive the National Council of Jewish Women’s “Woman Who Dared” award, and previously was named to the New York YWCA’s “Academy of Women Leaders.”

Ilene and her husband Karl live in Leonia, NJ and have three grown children – Audrey, Gordon and Andy, and a Tibetan Terrier named Vivian.

Lisa Senter

Lisa Senter holds a BS in economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and an MBA from New York University and had a professional career in direct response marketing at Citibank. Lisa raised her family in Westchester, where she served as a Board member and grant writer for the Larchmont-Mamaroneck Hunger Task Force, a Board member of the Emelin Theater, and a Board member and Treasurer of the Larchmont Temple Sisterhood. In addition, she served as Campaign Manager and Campaign Treasurer for Westchester County Councilmember Judy Myers. She served as PTA President at both Murray Avenue Elementary School and Hommocks Middle School, and Parent Teacher Council President for the Mamaroneck School District. Currently, Lisa is a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a Board member of Temple Emanuel’s Women of Emanuel.