Our Founders
Jordan Fox - Founder
Meet Jordan Fox. Jordan is a lifelong learner and a future-minded thinker.
As a victim of prejudice and anti-Semitic bullying in the workplace, Jordan learned early in his career that he would have to stand up for his heritage and his family history. Jordan began to focus on ways to stop this type of prejudice and treatment of Jewish employees in the workforce. Most of the time his co-workers did not realize how reckless their rhetoric was. Jordan decided to make it a priority to carry out his family legacy and to fight for fair treatment for all minorities, especially the jewish people.
Jordan’s first act was joining the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL’s) Youth Leadership committee to help the organization grow their social media following, increase awareness of their brand across all social channels and to learn about the ADL’s rich history. In addition to the ADL, Jordan has been working with Tony Katz on bringing together a strong network of jewish and non-jewish professionals who want to learn more about and support our fight against anti-Semitism.
When Jordan is not fighting anti-Semitism, he is the Founder and President at MMP Digital, which he started at the age of 26. In naming MMP, Jordan was inspired by his grandfather, Arthur Dock, who would always say to Jordan, “Make Me Proud.”
Jordan began his career at SocialCode, then the largest social media buying agency in the world, before joining VaynerMedia, the vaunted brand-building agency. During this time, he worked with clients like Chase, Verizon, Reckitt Benckiser, and more.
Jordan’s first client at MMP Digital was Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter, Alicia Keys, where he led global digital strategy and branding across her 80-million-person audience.
Since officially launching MMP Digital in June 2019, MMP has signed over 20 clients. In 2020, MMP, which was self-funded, is projected to manage over $2.5 million in paid media and set to beat their projected revenue for 2020 by 2x. Some clients are Smithfield Foods, Nathan’s, Eckrich, Kretschmar, Badger & Winters (winner of Ad Age A-List Agencies to Watch), VaynerSports, Whistle Sports, Aria Development Group, Bohana, (as seen on Shark Tank) and more!
Jordan is not only recognized for his expertise in brand building, social media, and e-commerce but also for his ability to navigate partnerships in the labyrinthine media, celebrity, and influencer world.
When not working on MMP, Jordan stays involved with multiple non-profit organizations. Jordan was selected to the ADL Glass Leadership Committee of 2020-2021; he is on the Board of Directors for the Brooklyn Youth Sports Club; he is the Communications & Social Media Chair for Syracuse NYC Alumni Club; he was selected by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) to help create their new Social Media certification course; and he was selected to be a judge of the 2020 Reggie Awards, presented by Association of National Advertisers (ANA).
Tony Katz - Founder
Recently retired, Tony has devoted 45 years to advocating for clients and causes.
As a victim of prejudice and anti-Semitic bullying at his former private school, Tony has actively addressed prejudice in his writing and speaking. His recent articles about anti-Semitism include: “Fighting Anti-Semitism is No Longer Fashionable, If It Ever Was”, Anti-Semitism Infiltrates Today’s Racial Injustice Discussions - Noble Cause Infected With Jew-Hatred,” “The Disturbing Truth Why Anti-Semitism Threatens To Expand Further,” and “Identifying The Four Steps of Anti-Semitism.”
In 2020, Tony formed the CAN network, Confronting Anti-Semitism Network, to address anti-Semitism in his home territory in southwest Florida and then expanded that network to include chapters in South Florida, Atlanta, NYC/Long Island, Boston and Indianapolis.
Also in 2020, Tony was an active contributor to the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative at his private school in Bethesda, Maryland in addressing bigotry in all forms including anti-Semitism. Previously, he also was the initiator/lead consultant of two customized programs of Relational Judaism at two synagogues.
Professionally, Tony is a nationally known leader in strategic public relations and marketing and a respected reputation management/crisis and sensitive issues senior counselor to the C-Suite at businesses, institutions and organizations including some of the most recognized global brand names from Fortune 50 corporations to start-ups.
Since 2003, Tony has been the co-founding partner and then the founder of two boutique high-level strategic communications consultancies in New York City and Naples, Florida. Prior to that for 12 years, he was a Member of the Board and senior executive management of Saatchi & Saatchi Communications Worldwide. He also served for 13 years as Executive Vice President and Sector Head of the Corporate Affairs Practice at Ogilvy & Mather Public Relations in NYC.
Upon graduation from law school, he began his career as public affairs counsel in the Washington, DC office of Burson-Marsteller Worldwide Public Relations, conducting public affairs and government relations programs.
Tony received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law. He holds an A.B. from Franklin and Marshall College and also studied at the City of London College, England. Tony was raised in Washington DC and attended the Landon Preparatory School for Boys.
Howard Adler - Member
As the only child of two Holocaust survivors, Howard has held a life-long commitment to "never forget" his family history, and to always stand up to anti-Semitism. Confronted with anti-Semitism in college, he has been determined to insure that he, his children, and grandchildren , as well as other minorities and Jewish people everywhere, not feel the shame and embarrassment that his parents felt because of their religion.
A nationally regarded leader respected for his savvy in the business of media, Howard recently retired after a long career as senior executive leading sales and marketing for internationally known brand name corporations. Formerly Senior Vice President and General Manager of the NY Post for more than 10 years, he led both strategy and sales for print advertising, print business development, all digital development and operations, home delivery operations and single copy sales. He also was responsible for leading advertising and digital strategy for clients and overseeing the products and platforms of NY Post’s advertising agencies. Previously he held senior executive positions at both Macy's and Lord & Taylor.
Howard grew up in Brooklyn NY, attended and graduated from New York’s Pace University , then received his Master degree in Executive Management from St. John's University. As Florida residents, he and his wife now commute regularly to the New York suburbs to be near their two children and grandchildren.
Alexi Zloof - Member
Alexi Scheck (formally Zloof), was born and raised in Great Neck, New York. Her father moved to Queens when he was 24 from Israel and began to build a life for himself. Alexi's love of Israel and Jewish traditions began when she took her first trip to Israel at nine months old. After attending the University of Maryland, spending time living in DC and New York City, she moved to Chicago two years ago, and married her husband Joey. Alexi grew up spening summers visiting family In israel, taking Holocaust classes in college and as a young adult began to see the antisemistm growing around her. Wanting to make a difference, Alexi started working with her DEI team at work to include antisemitism and Jewish traditions a part of hteir currcilum, most recently bringing a Holocaust Survivor to speak to the company. Alexi is excited to join CAN as a way to continue her activism. She hopes to help other DEI teams bring our curriculum to the hearts and minds of employees across the US to help shine a light on the work we're doing to fight antisemitism.
Joel Koblentz - Member
Joel M. Koblentz is nationally recognized for resolving our clients’ most sensitive, critical and confidential leadership and governance challenges. He advises publicly traded companies and private equity concerns, globally.
Over the past three decades, Mr. Koblentz has advised on CEO successions and has led the recruitment of CEOs for a wide range of clients as well as recruiting several hundred new board of directors and senior executive leaders. He has led numerous “sensitive matter” Board of Director examinations, recommending improvement in their governance practices.
Recently, Mr. Koblentz has authored articles on succession and board effectiveness for respected journals such as “Directorship”, “Directors & Boards” and The New York Stock Exchange’s, “Corporate Board Member.” He is often sought for his views on leadership by the national business media.
Previously, Mr. Koblentz was a Senior Partner at Egon Zehnder, a leading global executive search and board of directors' consultancy. During his tenure, he served as the Managing Partner of its New York and Atlanta practices as well as led its Service Sector Practice Group for the Americas.
Earlier, he held senior strategic management and financial positions at Cox Cable Communications (Atlanta) and Tiger International (Atlanta and Los Angeles) with previous experience in financial roles at Occidental Petroleum and as a senior consultant at EY.
He has served as a board member and as Chairman of the Compensation Committee of Focus Brands, a leading restaurant group. Mr. Koblentz also served on the board of In Q Tel, the C.I.A.’s venture capital fund, as a board member for The Atlanta Chapters of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Association of Corporate Growth in Atlanta.
His community activities have centered on education, the arts and health care, having assisted many not-for profit organizations in structuring their boards, governance effectiveness and recruitment of leadership.
Recently, Mr. Koblentz was the Chair of Emory University’s Center for Ethics and the Board of Directors of the Chick-fil-A Bowl Foundation. He has served on the boards of The Carter Center, Junior Achievement, Atlanta's High Museum, Central Atlanta Progress, The Latin American Association and ZooAtlanta.
Mr. Koblentz is a CPA and holds an MBA from the University of Southern California.
Avi Goldwasser - Member
Avi Goldwasser has been an activist for over 18 years. He co-founded The David Project, an organization dedicated to teaching college and high school students about the Middle East conflict. He is also a former member of the Board of the Directors of the American Jewish Committee in Boston, the JCRC of Greater Boston (Jewish Committee Relationship Council), and the Boston Bureau of Jewish Education.
While at the David Project, realizing the importance of visual media, Avi became a filmmaker. The Forgotten Refugees his first film tells the story of indigenous people expelled from their ancestral homeland, and exploring the history, culture, and destruction of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish Communities. The film was named "Best Documentary" at the Marbella Film Festival in Spain, and the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. The film has been translated into six languages and has been broadcast on over a dozen PBS stations in the U.S and on Israeli Television. It was also shown at the U.N, U.S. Congress, and the British and Italian Parliaments. He also produced “The J Street Challenge” a documentary about an advocacy group that promotes American initiatives to force the Israeli government to establish a Palestinian State as the solution to the Arab Israeli conflict
Avi produced several films about the hostility towards Jewish students on U.S. college campuses including “Columbia Unbecoming”, “Northeastern Unbecoming” and his most recent film “Hate Spaces: The Politics of Intolerance on Campus”. He has also produced several videos about Anti-Israel indoctrination in Boston area high schools.
Born in Poland to Holocaust survivors, Avi Goldwasser grew up in Israel and New York City where he received a BS in Engineering from City College of NY and an MBA from NYU. Professionally, he has been a financial executive in high tech. He also spent 3 years working for a Boston based construction company building an airbase in the Negev in Israel.
Allan M. Birenberg - Member
Dr. Birenberg has been a respected fellowship trained anesthesiologist for over 30 years, as well as holding progressive executive and administrative positions in teaching hospitals both in Maryland and in Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Baylor College of Medicine and completed his residency and advanced anesthesiology training at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City.
Allan has held several community Board positions in both Jewish and community non-profits.
He is fully committed to confronting hate and anti-Semitism through targeted education and awareness, both at the grassroots level and through promoting targeted corporate and governmental efforts.
Scott A. Livingston - Member
Scott A. Livingston, is co-founder of RWL and chair of the firm’s State Contracting, Procurement and Bid Protests Practice.
A specialist in Maryland procurement law, Scott has represented hundreds of government contractors on bid protests and other state contract disputes totaling more than 5 billion dollars. He has been the attorney of record in more than 50 decisions published by the Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals. In his more than 30 years in practice, Scott has handled more appeals to the Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals than any other private practitioner attorney.
In his previous position serving as an Assistant Attorney General of Maryland, Scott advised the Secretary of Transportation of Maryland. He helped draft Maryland’s procurement regulations governing administrative procedures for resolution of bid protests and contract claims.
Scott is a regular speaker on procurement law subjects, including construction claims, bid protests and MBE compliance for organizations including the Public Contract Law Section of the American Bar Association.
He provides legal services to government contractors relating to bid protests, litigation and settlement of claims against agencies of the State of Maryland.
Previously, Scott served for seven years as an Assistant Attorney General with the Maryland Department of Transportation.
Allon Friedman - Of Counsel
Dr. Allon Friedman has helped lead the Jewish American Affairs Committee of Indiana for nearly a decade. In this capacity he has published numerous articles advocating for Jewry and Israel in the local, national, and international media and has spoken across the country about threats to world Jewry. He has also written pro-Israel legislation, including one bill that made Indiana the second state in the union to divest from any business that engages in attempts to boycott, divest, or sanction the state of Israel. Dr. Friedman is also a professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine.