Jared S. Szychter is the President of 1932 Capital Management, a private family investment office. Prior to his current position, Mr. Szychter spent most of his career in public accounting, most recently as a Managing Director in the Philadelphia office of Grant Thornton, LLP. While in public accounting, Jared focused primarily on tax and estate planning for ultra-high net worth families and business owners. Mr. Szychter has co-authored numerous articles on taxation for national publications including Bloomberg BNA. Mr. Szychter is a Certified Public Accountant and has a Master of Taxation from Villanova University. In addition to his role at the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, he serves as a member of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia’s Finance Committee and served on the Board of Directors of the Wetherill School in Gladwyne, PA.
Steven J. Kessler has enjoyed a 50-plus year career in accounting, finance, and real estate, and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of Resource Capital Corp. (trading under the symbol RSO). He has been a member of the board since 2009 and served as Chairman from November of 2009 to September of 2016.
Prior to becoming Chairman of Resource Capital Corp., Mr. Kessler served in a variety of leadership roles, including: Chief Financial Officer of Resource America, Inc. (trading under the symbol REXI); the Chief Financial Officer of Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P., (trading under the symbol APL on the NYSE). Vice President of finance and acquisitions at Kravco Company; trustee and chairman of the audit committee of GMH Communities Trust; and Chief Financial and Chief Operating Officer of Strouse Greenberg & Co.
Mr. Kessler also gives back to the community, previously serving as Chairman and presently serving as Treasurer of the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, and is a trustee of the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network.
As CEO of Campus Apartments, David J. Adelman is one of the nation’s leading experts on university-affiliated real estate development. Under his leadership, Campus Apartments has grown into one of the nation’s largest providers of on- and off-campus student housing with more than $2 billion in assets under management across 24 states.
Mr. Adelman is an active private investor, entrepreneur, and member of his community. He has served in leadership positions at Franklin Square Capital Partners, a leading manager of alternative investment, as well as FS Investment Corporation and FS Energy and Power Fund, both publicly registered business development companies focused on investing in the debt securities of private U.S. companies.
Mr. Adelman also serves on the Actua Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTA) Board of Directors; Penn Medicine Board of Trustees; Wheels Up Board of Directors; Board of Councilors of the USC Shoah Foundation-The Institute for Visual History and Education; Vice Chair of University City District Board of Directors; and a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO).
Eszter Kutas is an accomplished nonprofit professional and lawyer. Eszter became PHRF’s Executive Director after serving as the project lead and acting director for two years through her employer Fairmount Ventures, a consulting firm serving the nonprofit and public sectors in Philadelphia.
A native of Budapest, Hungary, Eszter is the granddaughter of four Holocaust survivors. Her commitment to the Holocaust Memorial project is both personal and professional; as staff attorney at The Claims Conference, Eszter oversaw the administration of a $1.25 Billion fund established by a consortium of Swiss Banks and supported the assessment of more than 80,000 Holocaust restitution claims across international borders.
Eszter has served as a senior advisor and chief of staff, program developer, fundraiser, and project manager at Philabundance, the Philadelphia region’s largest hunger-relief organization, and was the project planner and lead manager for the nation’s first nonprofit grocery store to address food inequality and access in urban food deserts. Eszter is the Vice Chair of the Parkway Council Foundation.
Eszter earned her J.D. at the University of Eotvos Lorand in Hungary and her LL.M. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Sophie, a proud Philadelphian, is excited to serve on staff at the Foundation. She has worked as a program coordinator, museum educator and tour guide for many of the City’s cultural institutions.
Sophie received her MA from Brown University in the Public Humanities, exploring cultural institution structure, function and practice. This built on her BA in History at Skidmore College where she focused her thesis research on Holocaust education and memorialization across the United States and in Berlin.
Along with her former studies, Sophie has a personal passion for the mission of PHRF, as her grandparents and other family members are Holocaust survivors and were involved in the 1964 memorial effort.