President Obama Appointments to U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint the following individuals as Members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council:

Tamar Newberger is a computer scientist. Ms. Newberger was Chief Marketing Officer of Catbird Security from 2004 to 2013 and also served as Director for Enterprise Accounts and Channel Sales and Product Marketing and Analyst Relations at Tarantella, Inc. from 2002 to 2004 and 2000 to 2002, respectively. She worked as Director for Server Product Marketing and Product Management at SCO, Inc. from 1996 to 2000 and was Senior Product Planner, Product Marketing Manager, and Product Engineer at Novell, Inc. from 1993 to 1996. Ms. Newberger was the Product Marketing Manager at Magic Software Enterprises, Inc. from 1992 to 1993 and a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Inc. from 1985 to 1992. She is a board member of the International School of Prague, a trustee of the Jewish Women’s Federation of Chicago and was previously a member of the Board of Trustees for the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School. Ms. Newberger received a B.A. and M.S. from Columbia University.

Eric Ortner is Principal of The Ortner Group, a position he has held since 2013. Mr. Ortner was a Journalist and Producer with NBC News, ABC News, and CBS News, a Senior Producer of Good Morning America, and a Producer for the Today Show from 1996 to 2009. He is a member of the Board of the Global Poverty Project and an Executive Producer of the Global Citizen Festival. Mr. Ortner was appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities in 2015. Mr. Ortner received a B.A. from the University of Rochester.

Michael Posner is the Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance and Co-Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University Stern School of Business, where he has worked since 2013. Mr. Posner served as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the State Department from 2009 to 2013. He served in a variety of roles at Human Rights First from 1978 to 2009, including President and Executive Director. Mr. Posner was a lawyer at Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal from 1975 to 1978. He lectured at Columbia Law School from 1984 to 2008 and at Yale Law School from 1981 to 1984 and again in 2009. Mr. Posner received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Menachem Rosensaft is Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, General Counsel of the World Jewish Congress, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, positions he has held since 2011, 2009, and 2008, respectively. Mr. Rosensaft worked at Van der Moolen Specialists USA, LLC from 2004 to 2007 in a variety of roles including General Counsel, Senior Legal Counsel, and Special Counsel. He served as Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Holocaust Survivors’ Memoirs Project from 2004 to 2013 and was Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Project from 2000 to 2004. Mr. Rosensaft worked as Executive Vice President of the Jewish Renaissance Foundation, Inc. from 1996 to 2000 and as Senior International Counsel at The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation from 1995 to 1997.  He is the Founding Chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, a former National President of the Labor Zionist Alliance, and a past President of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. Mr. Rosensaft was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council in 2010, 1999, and 1994.  Mr. Rosensaft received a B.A. and M.A. from John Hopkins University, an M.A. from Columbia University, and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.

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