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Our Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer since April 2006 and Treasurer since our inception. From our inception until April 2006, he was our President. Mr. Weingrow is a trustee of the Children’s Medical Fund and the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. He also is an officer and director of a number of privately held companies. Mr. Weingrow is the founder of the Weingrow Family Children’s Urology Research Laboratory, the Center for Childhood Asthma of Long Island Jewish Hospital, the Weingrow Collection of Avant Garde Art and Literature, and the Weingrow Family Endowed Scholarship at Hofstra University.
In 1985, Mr. Weingrow was the recipient of the Hofstra University Presidential Medal and was in 2004 the recipient of a degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa from Hofstra. He was a trustee until 2002 and founding Treasurer of the Nassau County Museum of Art. He was Chairman and a director of Mercury Paging & Communications, Inc. from 1995 until its sale in 1997. In 1983, he was a founder of Preferred Health Care Ltd. and served on its Board of Directors.
In 1961, he co-founded, with Mr. Lifton, Transcontinental Investing Corporation, serving as its Executive Vice President until 1968 and then President until its merger in 1972. Mr. Weingrow served as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee in 1971 and 1972 and as deputy finance chairman of the Carter for President campaigns in 1976 and 1980. In 1977 Mr. Weingrow was appointed Financial Consultant to the Government and to the Prime Minister of Granada.
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