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Marc Goldmann is the CEO and Founder of SawYouAtMountSinai.
Marc’s entrepreneurial skills were honed at a young age: He began organizing ski trips for friends and family when he was only fourteen and continues to do so regularly today. During his high school years he spent summers as a lifeguard and started selling soda by the pool to thirsty loungers.
Outside of business, Marc enjoys athletics, the outdoors and travel. He raced on the ski team at Columbia University, and inadvertently became a matchmaker when 2 couples met on one of his trips and later got married. He currently is an avid skier during the winter months and frequently goes hiking during the summer. While exploring the outdoors in recent years, Marc gradually became a photographer in his limited free time. You can see the results of this hobby all over the walls of his apartment where numerous landscape photos are prominently displayed. He greatly enjoys traveling and started a travel company a few years ago (which he later sold) in order to venture across the world.
Marc is the oldest of three siblings and has an incredible family who knew when he was young that he would eventually be working for himself.
When people ask how he decided to start SawYouAtMountSinai, Marc claims he had a “midlife crisis at age 34,” while still single, and decided he had to be working on a project that had a clear and distinct impact on the Jewish singles’ community. So he left the corporate world where he was a Management Consultant and working on Wall Street for 12 years to create the ultimate online matchmaking network.
Before he launched SawYouAtMountSinai, he met the woman who he is now married to, Chani Traube. The two were married in October 2004.
Working for SawYouAtMountSinai and all of the wedding preparations have forced Marc to give up the “hobby of sleep,” but he loves building a company that is clearly affecting many people in a positive way.
Azi Cutter serves as Advisor in Advertising and Marketing for SawYouAtMountSinai and is a Founding Partner of the site.
He maintains an active and integral role in numerous Jewish community causes and in his spare time, he likes to surf both the Internet and the ocean waves!
In addition to his role with SawYouAtMountSinai, Azi is the CEO and Founder of the AC Lion executive search firm for sales and technology employers and job seekers. It is located in the Fashion District of downtown Manhattan.
For SawYouAtMountSinai, he oversees general business management and strategic development, helping to continually enhance aspects of the network for the benefit of singles worldwide. Azi is also the Director of the Career Center for the J2J Network, a new initiative to help match Jewish people with jobs and he is on the board of directors at Manhattan Jewish Experience, a program for Jewish professionals that are interested in learning about and connecting to their heritage and the Jewish community.
Chris Bartlett is the founder responsible for developing the technology behind SawYouAtMountSinai and serves as the company’s Advisor to Technology Operations.
Having arrived in the United States from England on a six month holiday that has lasted more than a decade, Chris has been providing technology management consulting services to Wall Street firms ever since. His family resides in England, Zimbabwe and South Africa and the only time Chris does the “tourist thing” is when they visit him in New York City. Chris is a technology whiz who built his first PC in 1984 and is still trying to understand the more complicated phenomenon of the American People.
Chris established SawYouAtMountSinai’s technology backbone. He is continually enhancing and introducing new ideas for technological aspects of the network, but don’t let that fool you into thinking Chris is content sitting behind a desk: He is a lover of the great outdoors who has enjoyed kayaking since 1984, having competed in White Water and Slalom races, and in 1990, he made a couple of documentaries on the sport including “Mad dogs and Englishmen.”
The brain behind the technology that enables a selective online dating experience, we are grateful to Chris for having extended his “Six Month Holiday” repeatedly.
Jack Bhanded is the Lead Programmer for SawYouAtMountSinai and is involved in all phases of the network from designing to programming. In his own words, he is “very very happy that my hard work is contributing to all of our holy work!”
Jack can be found tirelessly working on the SawYouAtMountSinai web site and speaking to CEO Marc Goldmann at insane hours of the late night and early morning.
His bio would be incomplete without mention of his “better half,” his wife Rekha, who also works for SawYouAtMountSinai designing graphics for the site.
Whatever “free time” Jack & Rekha has is spent with their adorable children Anusha and Swayam. When he is not working (which is rare these days!), Jack goes biking and cycling and never misses a chance to go for a hike. He is an avid reader who enjoys listening to music and relies on yoga to unwind – When you work as hard as Jack does, you need some time to meditate and connect with your inner self!
Dr. Tova Weinberg serves as Matchmaker Advisor for SawYouAtMountSinai availing herself to matchmakers of the network who wish to consult with her on dating or matching matters. She joined our network having previously made 80 successful matches over the years.
Tova is a dentist by trade and is married to Dr. Joel Weinberg, Vice-President of Medical Affairs, Head of the Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care, Director of the Intensive Care Unit and Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Tova is also involved with Amit Women and serves as a Chair Woman for the United Jewish Federation. Additionally, she sits on the boards of the Kollel and Congregation Poale Zedeck.
She and her husband live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and have five children, a son-in law, and a precious granddaughter.
Rebecca is the new Director of Matchmaker Operations for SawYouAtMountSinai and is available to answer all Matchmaker questions about the website, the process, and any challenges that may arise.
She’s a professional social worker by training and for the past 6 years has worked in a hospital. Her true passion has always been the world of dating and relationships. She has spent years as a single New Yorker, and in the process has become well-versed in the singles world and the many events, websites, and venues to meet other singles. She even completed training at The Matchmaking Institute in Manhattan, and does Matchmaking on her own in Westchester County, NY. When not at work, she runs speed dating parties for HurryDate in Westchester and also has a passion for cooking and photography. She’s also very involved in area Jewish cultural and religious activities.
Danielle and Rebecca
on the recent 'Come Back to Camp' Memorial Day Weekend
Danielle is the new Director of Member Services for SawYouAtMountSinai. She spends her day trying to make the website as beneficial as possible for the members and resolving any member questions (so please be kind!).
A new addition to the New York population, Danielle is from sunny Manchester, England. Having graduated in Mathematics and Management from the University of Leeds last year, she decided (with little hesitation) to defer her accounting job for a year. Having spent the past six months studying at Shearim College for Jewish Women in Jerusalem, she recently moved to New York, for the second part of her adventure. The phrase “She gets around doesn’t she?” is becoming commonly associated with her (appropriate context of course) as she volunteers for as many Jewish organizations as possible.
She enjoys traveling the world, connecting to people, and loves new experiences.
She’s very excited to be a part of the SYAS team.
Rachel Pollack is an Associate for SawYouAtMountSinai who manages Matchmaker Training & Member Support. On a daily basis, she conducts the training that is necessary for effective matchmaking, resolves member inquiries and acts as our onsite editor.
Rachel is also a rising senior at Barnard College of Columbia University where she is majoring in English, with aspirations of going for a Masters in Education after completing her undergraduate course load. She plans on becoming a teacher. Having finished the great literary works of Jane Austen, Samuel Johnson and Jonathan Swift this past semester, Rachel decided, upon the advice of her16-year-old brother, to continue reading the great literature of our time with the entire Harry Potter series. (She claims this is an “obsession, but not a dangerous one.”) At school she also serves as Musical Director of Pizmon, the Jewish a cappella group of Columbia University.
This past year, Rachel was a Student Teacher at the Ramaz Middle School. There she also helped coach the girls’ varsity softball team for the last 3 years, having played the sport throughout high school. Last summer, she worked in archiving at the American Jewish Historical Society and this summer she joined the SawYouAtMountSinai team.
Karen Bloch is a matchmaker at SawYouAtMountSinai and co-author of Kol Chatan V’kol Kallah. She licensed as a clinical psychologist in South Africa where she practiced for eight years, then licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in California.
In South Africa, she co-founded Nechama, an organization that attends to the bereavement needs of the Jewish community. Since that time, the organization has expanded to several other countries, and continues to grow.
Karen emigrated from South Africa to the United States with her husband, Ellis and their children in the late 1980’s. They live in San Diego, California and enjoy the community and the lifestyle.
Active in many community projects, Karen serves on, and coordinates the women’s Chevra Kadisha in San Diego.
As a matchmaker at SawYouAtMountSinai, Karen has become acutely aware of the issues and struggles that singles face all the time. From the many questions and heartfelt emails received daily, Karen, and fellow matchmaker and friend, Raquel Schraub, decided to co-author an advice column. “We try to answer questions in a sensible and sensitive way, and also show singles that often times there is more than one way to approach things,” she says.
With 25 years of experience in the field, Karen is now in private practice as a Marriage and Family Therapist in La Jolla, California. She is an active member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, and is currently furthering her study of psychotherapy. She works with adults, children and couples.
Rabbi Simcha Feuerman, CSW co-authors a weekly column in the Jewish Press on religion, relationships and parenting, along with his wife Chaya Feuerman, CSW. The Feuermans also have authored a book, titled "How to Have Fun Without Getting into Trouble: Essays on Relationships, Parenting and the Self" available through Rowman and Littlefield, inc. In addition, Simcha serves as Director of Community Services at Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services. He received training in family therapy from the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center and maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Queens, New York, where he provides individual therapy, family therapy and couples counseling.
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