The New York Forward Reopening Advisory Board will help guide the state’s reopening strategy. The advisory board will be chaired by former secretaries to the Governor Steve Cohen and Bill Mulrow and includes over 100 business, community and civic leaders from industries across the state.
Quenia Abreu
President New York Women's Chamber of Commerce
Elizabeth Alexander
President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Vincent Alvarez
President, NYC Central Labor Council
Stuart Appelbaum
President, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
Robert Bakish
CEO, Viacom
Ajay Banga
CEO, MasterCard
Kathy Behrens
President, Social Responsibility & Player Programs, National Basketball Association
Bill Berkley
Chair, NYU
Greg Biryla
State Director, National Federation of Independent Business
Albert Bourla
CEO, Pfizer
Elizabeth Bradley
President, Vassar College
Kyle Bragg
President, SEIU 32BJ
Heather Briccetti
President & CEO, The Business Council
Tory Burch
Executive Chair, Tory Burch LLC
Gerrard P. Bushell
Former President and CEO of the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY)
Wellington Chen
Executive Director of Chinatown Business Improvement District
Mario Cilento
President, NYS AFL-CIO
Henry Cisneros
Siebert, Brandford, Shank & Co.
Dr. Katherine Conway-Turner
President, SUNY Buffalo State College
Steven M. Cohen
Former Secretary to the Governor
Lou Coletti
President, Building Trades Employers Association
Stacey Cunningham
President, NYSE
Vijay Dandapani
President & CEO, Hotel Association of NYC
Sonya Del Peral
Nine Pin Ciderworks
Mylan Denerstein
Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Alicia Fernandez Dicks
President/CEO, Community Foundation of Oneida and Herkimer
James Dolan
CEO, Madison Square Garden
Gary Douglas
President & CEO, North Country Chamber of Commerce
Jonathan Drapkin
President & CEO, Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress
Stacey Duncan
Executive Director, The Agency
Leecia Eve
Vice President of State Government Affairs, Verizon
Melissa Fleischut
President & CEO, NYS Restaurant Association
Bill Ford
CEO, General Atlantic LLC
Jane Fraser
President, Citigroup
Adena Friedman
President & CEO, Nasdaq
Joanna Geraghty
President & COO, Jetblue Airways Corp
Raymond Gindi
COO, Century 21
Ken Goldberg
President, Amusement and Music Operators Association of NY
Bea Grause
President, Healthcare Association of New York State
Jonathan Gray
President & COO, Blackstone Group
George Gresham
President, 1199SEIU
Horacio Gutierrez
General Counsel, Spotify
Sabrina HoSang Jordan
CEO, Caribbean Food Delights, Inc.
Maria Imperial
CEO, YWCA White Plains & Central Westchester
Shirley Ann Jackson
President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Amarilis Jacobo
President, National Hispanic Dental Association
Jeremy Jacobs Jr
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Delaware North
Michele Johnson
YWCAs of Elmira – President of YWCAs NYS
René Jones
Chair & CEO, M&T Bank
Michel Khalaf
President & CEO, MetLife
Pat Kane
Executive Director, New York State Nurses Association
Gary LaBarbera
President, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York
Mary Beth Labate
President, Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities
Kevin Law
President & CEO, Long Island Association, Inc.
Jon Ledecky
Co-Owner, NY Islanders
Kewsong Lee
Co-CEO, Carlyle Group
Randy Levine
President, NY Yankees
Mayra Linares-Garcia
VP of Public Affairs and Communications at Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages
Melanie Littlejohn
Chair, Board of Directors, CenterState CEO
Melinda Mack
Executive Director, NYATEP
Joanie Mahoney
Chief Operating Officer, SUNY ESF
Carl McCall
Former Chair, SUNY Board of Trustees; Former NYS Comptroller
Brenda McDuffie
President & CEO at Buffalo Urban League
James McKenna
CEO, Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism
Cheryl McKissack Daniel
President & CEO, McKissack & McKissack
Father Joseph McShane
President, Fordham University
Elizabeth Moore
General Counsel, Con Edison
Wes Moore
CEO, Robin Hood
Marc Morial
President & CEO, National Urban League
William J. Mulrow
Former Secretary to the Governor
John McAvoy
Chairman, President & CEO, Con Edison
Danny Meyer
CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group
Dr. Belinda S. Miles
President, SUNY Westchester Community College
Frankie Miranda
President & CEO, Hispanic Federation
George Miranda
International Vice President- At Large, Teamsters
Orinthia T. Montague
President, Tompkins Cortland Community College
Henry Muñoz
Chairman & CEO, Kell Muñoz Architects, Inc.
Candice Niu
Executive Director, China General Chamber of Commerce
Brian O'Donoghue
Ana Oliveira
President & CEO, The New York Women’s Foundation
Kim Pegula
President and CEO, Pegula Sports and Entertainment
Elizabeth Peralta
Executive Director, National Supermarket Association
Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker
President/CEO, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
Charles Phillips
Chair, Infor
Martha Pollack
President, Cornell University
Melissa O'Connor
President & CEO, Retail Council of New York State
Christine Quinn
President & CEO, Women in Need
Ken Raske
President, Greater NY Hospital Association
Scott Rechler
CEO & Chairman, RXR Realty
Andrew Rigie
President, NYC Hospitality Alliance
Linda Brown-Robinson
President, Syracuse Onondaga NAACP
Lisa Rosenblum
Vice Chair, Altice
Jane Rosenthal
Co-Founder & CEO, Tribeca Enterprises
Steven Rubenstein
Chairman, Association for a Better New York
Bill Rudin
Rudin Management Company
Kevin Ryan
Co-Founder, MongoDB
Julie Samuels
President, Tech:NYC
Rob Sands
Chairman, Constellation Brands
Theresa Sanders
President of the Urban League of Long Island
Jaime Saunders
CEO, United Way of Greater Rochester
Diane Serratore
Executive Director, Help From People to People
Carlo Scissura
President & CEO, NY Building Congress
Leonard Schleifer
CEO, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Jeff Shell
CEO, NBC Universal
Josh Silverman
CEO, Etsy
Lisa Sorin
President, Bronx Chamber of Commerce
Rob Speyer
President & CEO, Tishman Speyer
Ty Stone
President, Jefferson County Community College
Ken Sunshine
President, Sunshine Sachs
Steve Swartz
President & CEO, Hearst; Co- Chair, Partnership for NYC
Chandrika Tandon
Chair, Tandon Capital Associates
Elinor Tatum
Publisher and Editor in Chief, New York Amsterdam News
Crickett Thomas-O’Dell
Regional Director, Workforce Development Institute
Bill Thompson
Chairman, CUNY
Merryl Tisch
Chairman, SUNY
Erin Tolefree
Executive Vice President, Baldwin Richardson Foods
Clara Wu Tsai
Owner, Brooklyn Nets/New York Liberty
Elizabeth Velez
CEO Velez Organization & Chair, NY Building Congress
Fanny Villarreal
Executive Director, YWCA Syracuse Onondaga County
Dennis Walcott
Former NYC School Chancellor
John Waldron
President and COO, Goldman Sachs
Darren Walker
President, Ford Foundation
Peter Ward
President, NY Hotel & Motel Trades Council, AFL-CIO
Nicole Wegman
Senior Vice President, Wegmans
Anthony Welters
Executive Chairman, BlackIvy Group, LLC
Jim Whelan
President, Real Estate Board of New York
Jeff Wilpon
COO, NY Mets
Tren'ness Woods-Black
Sylvia’s Restaurant
Sheena Wright
President & CEO, United Way of New York City
Kathy Wylde
President & CEO, Partnership for NYC
Jo-Ann Yoo
Executive Director, Asian American Federation
Kristine M. Young
President, Orange County Community College
Lourdes Zapata
President & CEO at South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation