Hazon - Leadership

Leadership

The Hazon founder, Nigel Savage, who has a master’s degree in history from Georgetown University, is a founder of Limmud New York, and sits on the advisory boards of Ramah Outdoor Adventure and the Jewish Greening Fellowship. Nigel was named a member of the Forward 50, the annual list of the 50 most influential Jewish people in the United States.

An enthusiastic cyclist, Savage created Hazon to explore the relationship between Judaism and the natural world.

Richard Dale, who sits on the Board of Directors of Hazon, is a principal at Sigma Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage IT investments, based in Boston and Menlo Park. Richard joined Sigma Partners in 2000 with 16 years of prior experience in software and high technology. Before Sigma, Richard co-founded Phase Forward Incorporated, a provider of service and software infrastructure for managing pharmaceutical clinical trials, where he was Vice President of Services and then Vice President of Strategic Development. Richard also held professional service, senior product management and IS management roles at Sybase, Epoch Systems (a subsidiary of EMC) and MicroTouch Systems. He shares responsibility for Sigma’s investment in CaseNET, Instill, Retica, Silverlink and Visual Mining. He has also been an advisor to many startup companies, including Vignette, OnDisplay, FirstSense, OnExchange and QXL.com. Richard received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Durham in England.

Ruth W. Messinger, who also sits on the Board of Directors of Hazon, is the president and executive director of American Jewish World Service, an international development organization providing support to grassroots social change projects throughout the world. Prior to assuming this role in 1998, Ms. Messinger was in public service in New York City for 20 years, including having served as Manhattan borough president. She is an active member of her synagogue and serves on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations. In honor of her tireless work to end the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, Ruth Messinger received the Jewish Council for Public Affairs’ prestigious Albert D. Chernin Award in February 2006. And, in tribute to her life’s work, she was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2005, as well as the Union for Reform Judaism Maurice N. Eisendrath Bearer of Light Award. For the past five years, she has been named one of the 50 most influential Jews of the year by the Forward, putting her in the top spot on the list in 2005. Ruth Messinger has participated in every Hazon New York Ride and will ride again in 2012’s ride.

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