Committees

Board of Directors

Erika Guskind
Erika is a vice president for the Global Consumer Bank at Citibank in New York. In this role, she works with countries around the world on their mass market and mass affluent banking strategies.  Prior to this role, Erika was based in London, UK for 2 years, working in the International Customer Franchise Management group within Citi where she was responsible for the mass market segment for all international businesses.  In her first 3 years with Citibank, she was the manager of the Consumer Deposit products where she successfully designed and built many products for the US retail banking business.

Erika graduated from Cornell University with a major in Policy Analysis and Management, with a focus on Consumer Economics.

Meredith Jarblum
Meredith Jarblum has a background in public health and health communications. She has been working on public relations, public health education and strategic communications campaigns for pharmaceutical clients since 2006. Prior to moving to New York City, Meredith worked as a research associate in the Health Communication Program at RTI International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina where she worked on program evaluation, research, message development and testing, and materials development for clients such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute. She has also worked on several community-based research and cancer prevention education campaigns.

Meredith graduated from Duke University with majors in sociology and Spanish with a minor in political science. She received a Masters in Public Health from the Health Behavior and Health Education department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health.

Alana Kaufman
Alana Kaufman is a psychoanalyst and has a private practice in Brooklyn Heights. She has been in private practice for ten years. Her specialty is eating disorders, Anorexia, Bulimia and Binge eating disorder. She works with individuals, families and couples. Alana is a graduate of Hunter college, received her MSW from New York University and completed her four year psychoanalytic degree from the Institute of Contemporary psychotherapy.
In the past, Alana has sat on boards of other charities and has been an integral part of their fund raising and event planning. She has helped to put together 250 person luncheons as well as 300 person fashion show. Alana is one of the co founders of A Cause 4 Celebration. She lives in New York City.

Michael Lewin
Michael Lewin was born and raised in the Washington DC area and currently lives in New York, where he works for a hedge fund focusing on commercial real estate finance. Previously, he worked for a private real estate investor based out of suburban Philadelphia. Michael graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 with a BSE concentrating in Finance.

Michael has previously volunteered for a number of organizations in Washington and New York and is excited to focus his efforts on A Cause 4 Celebration.

Michael Russell
After completing a double major in Marketing and International Studies at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, Michael Russell began his career with Citigroup in 2004 and assumed the marketing responsibilities for over 800 small business banking branches across the United States. After 2 years with Citibank, Michael transferred internally within Citigroup to the Smith Barney division, where he earned his series 7, series 63 and series 66 licenses and studied investment and advisory strategies.

In 2007 Michael decided to leave Citigroup to pursue a full-time career in the food and beverage industry. He co-founded the Clientique Marketing Group (CMG). CMG is currently responsible for the in-house marketing efforts of several restaurants, bars and lounges in the New York City area.

Steering Committee

Event Committee for Rock 4 the Cause II