Sheldon Brickman is Senior Vice President, Accident & Health Chartis U.S., and a Director of Travel Guard.  He assumed his current responsibilities in March 2004 and oversees Strategy and Acquisitions for the Chartis Accident & Health business in the United States.

 Mr. Brickman joined Chartis in 1995 and held various responsibilities in the investment group and as Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions.  He was previously a Vice President with Hanwa Co. Ltd. and prior to that he was employed by Deloitte & Touche.

Sheldon Brickman graduated from Brooklyn College in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York.  He has served on the Board of Directors and is Treasurer of Prospect Park School for Girls in Brooklyn, New York.

David Boardman (Vice-chairman)

David Boardman is Executive Editor of The Seattle Times, the largest newspaper in the Pacific Northwest, and its Web site, Seattletimes.com.

He has directed two Pulitzer Prize-winning team projects and is the recipient of numerous other major national awards, including the Goldsmith Prize in Investigative Reporting from Harvard University. He is treasurer of the American Society of News Editors, chairman of the Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and has conducted seminars for journalists there and in Poland, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and Turkey.

He is a member of the Boards of Directors of the U.S. Center for Investigative Reporting and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and of the Accreditation Committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He has served four times as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes.

He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and has a graduate degree from the University of Washington. 

Fred Finkelstein is a member at the law firm of Lawrence & Finkelstein, P.L.L.C. in Seattle, Washington, where he represents clients in lawsuits and arbitrations.  Fred is also an arbitrator for the King County Superior Court and the Washington State Bar Association and has the highest rating (“AV”) given by Martindale-Hubbell, Inc.  He has practiced law in Seattle since 1984.

Born and raised in New York City, Fred attended college at Northwestern University and graduated with honors in history in 1979.  He received his law degree in 1984 from Vanderbilt University.  Fred lives in Seattle with his wife Nora and their three children.

Fred’s wife Nora has traced his family history in Lomza back to the 1830's. One of the tombstones restored by the Lomza Jewish Cemetery Foundation is of Fred’s great-great uncle.  When Fred visited the Jewish Cemetery in Lomza in 2008, he was photographed kneeling by this tombstone and holding a photograph from the early 1900's of his great-grandmother next to the very same tombstone.  This photograph is on the Lomza Jewish Cemetery Foundation website. Fred is also the Vice-President of the Lomza Jewish Cemetery Foundation

Dr. Marek Kaminski (Member)

Dr. Marek Kaminski, of Fall Creek, Wisconsin, grew up in Lomza. He graduated form Bialystok Medical School in 1974, and continued there as a faculty at the Department of Physiopathology.  In 1975, Dr. Kaminski was appointed an editor of the school's monthly magazine. For his persistence in the preservation of editorial independence under the Communist regime, he was assigned to three years of military service, an equivalent of a low-security imprisonment. He fled to the United States in 1980 and continued his research in blood clotting at University of North Carolina and Harvard Medical School.

He is a board-certified internist, and has been practicing emergency medicine since 1990, currently at  Mayo Clinc, Menomonie, Wisconsin. He also has served as a consultant for Poland’s Ministry of Heath on the Emergency Medical System Reform.

 Dr. Kaminski is a Roman Catholic. In 1999, in response to Pope John Paul II's appeal for "respect and love toward our older brothers in faith," Dr. Kaminski co-founded the Lomza Jewish Cemetery Foundation and has been serving as its president since then. His wife, Dorota, is treasurer of the Foundation.