Our Team
We are a group of business and healthcare leaders, who have come together to mobilize our staffs and networks to raise funds and organize necessary materials for members of our most needy communities and frontline workers in times of emergency. We are an incorporated NYS Not-For-Profit Corporation in the process of gaining 501(c)(3) status. Donations made after April 20, 2020 will be tax deductible, assuming approval of our pending 501(c)(3) application.
Directors
Zachary Gallate
Cofounder
Zac graduated from Colgate University with a degree in Biology and became a member of the TriBeta Research Honor Society for his ecology research. Zac is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Biomedical Science from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research focuses on intervertebral disc degeneration due to extracellular matrix protein denaturation. Zac spends much of his winters teaching adaptive skiing to athletes with physical and cognitive disabilities. Zac aspires to continue improving the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people and communities by obtaining a medical degree.
Romy Horn
General Counsel
Romy is General Counsel at Real Chemistry, a global health innovation firm. She is fluent in global operations with a strength in IP, Digital, and Privacy. Prior to Real Chemistry, Romy was General Counsel at 360i, and has over 14 years of litigation and arbitration experience. Romy has shared her knowledge and experience at many legal conferences including, NYSBA on Native Advertising, ACI’s Annual Summit on Digital Advertising Compliance and Corporate Counsel’s Annual IP Trademark, Copyright & Licensing Counsel Forum.
Dr. Ross Wilson
Head of Needs Assessment & Recipient Subcommittee
Ross has had senior leadership roles in the US and internationally in the public and private sectors. In addition to working with the World Health Organization in Africa and the Middle East, he is a past Chief Medical Officer of the New York public hospital system, was a founding CEO of a successful Accountable Care Organization, led large health system transformation, and was appointed to Board membership of large health systems. During his role in the New York hospital system he had a key leadership role in the system’s response to hurricanes, as well as the threats of Ebola and Zika.
Phil Hollyer
Head of Distribution & Logistics Subcommittee
Phil is the Executive Chairman of Bounteous, a digital transformation agency he co-founded more than 17 years ago. He has spent his career driving results in the digital space at the intersection of internet technologies, design and digital marketing. His focus is to help leading companies deliver transformational digital brand experiences.
Jean-Philippe (JP) Maheu
Head of Fundraising Subcommittee
JP leads the US Client Solutions team at Twitter. He joined Twitter through the acquisition of Bluefin Labs where he was the CEO of the leading SocialTV analytics company. Under JP’s leadership, Bluefin achieved remarkable sales traction with leading brands and strengthened its market leading position. Twitter’s acquisition of Bluefin Labs led AdAge to name JP as one of the eight great digital hires of 2012.
Hanna Miller
Director
Hanna is a NYS admitted lawyer with substantial international experience working as both a client facing associate, and as part of an in-house counsel team. My practice specialties include financial crime and sanctions compliance (US, UK, and EU regulations) and leveraged finance (specialty in complex international high yield bond offerings). Graduate of NYU School of Law.
George Gallate
Chairperson & Co-founder
George is the principal of MKTG2.U, a growth and marketing consultancy. He also serves on the boards of, and is an investor in, Tinuiti, Real Chemistry, Bounteous, MeritDirect, and RevUnit. He is an advisor to Mountaingate Capital, and a ski instructor at Jackson Hole where he resides full time. Previously, George was the Global CEO and Chairman of Havas Digital, a network he formed in the late 90’s and led until 2013.
Zachary Morrison
Director
Zach was employee number two and is now the CEO, and a board member, of Tinuiti, one of North America’s largest independent digital marketing agencies managing over $1.5b in media spend across the Trioploy of Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Having recently steered the agency through three major acquisitions and a rebrand, he is proud of nurturing a people-focused culture that treats employees like owners. Tinuiti has maintained a world-class eNPS above 60 and is consistently recognized through accolades such as Employer of the Year.
Aaron Strout
Chief Marketing Officer
Aaron is the CMO of Real Chemistry, a global health innovation firm. He sits on the executive leadership team and is responsible for all aspects of marketing at the company.
Prior to Real Chemistry, Aaron was CMO and head of Business Development for one of the first social media marketing agencies, Powered. Before joining Powered, Aaron was the VP of Social Media at online community platform, Mzinga. Aaron spent nine years at Fidelity Investments leading online marketing prior to joining Mzinga.