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Our Leadership Team

Driven to Make a Difference

We invite you to meet the members of the Board of Directors for Goodwill South Florida, who are the guiding force behind our community.

All of the Senior Management and members on our Board of Directors are active and generous supporters of our mission at Goodwill South Florida.

Goodwill’s leadership is driven to make a difference for the individuals that Goodwill serves, ensuring adherence to the highest standards of efficiency, quality, service, ethical conduct, public accountability and transparency.

Officers, Board of Directors, Board of Trustees

Board of Directors

Officers

Julie Greiner Weiser
Chair
Jayne Harris Abess
Emeritus
Peter L. Bermont
Chair, Investment
Ruth Brophy
Chair, Cybersecurity & Technology
Michael L. Burnstine
Chair, Business Enterprises Committee
Rosary Plana Falero
Chair, Development
Heather Gatley
Chair, Mission Services Committee
David Landsberg
President and CEO
Kimrey Newlin
Treasurer
George L. Pita
Chair, Audit
Charles M. Rosenberg, Esq.
Chair, Governance
Barbara L. Shrut
Secretary
Edward Manno Shumsky
Chair, Compensation

Board of Directors

Avery A. Dial
Michael Elkin
Tomas Erban
Sophia Galvin,PHD, SPHR
Nancy Pobiones Gonzalez
Lisa Kauffman
Danet Linares
Naomi Nixon, Esq.
Allison Shipley
Irma Reboso Solares, Esq.
Luis Suarez
Joe Zubizarreta

Board of Trustees

William Beames
James M. Fraser
Wilfredo Gort
Wilbert “tee” Holloway
Sherrill W. Hudson
Rudy Kranys
Joseph P. Lacher
Debra Owens
Leslie Pantin, Jr.
Victoria E. Villalba
President and CEO
David Landsberg
David Landsberg
President and Chief Executive Officer

David Landsberg is president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of South Florida, a non-profit dedicated to helping people with disabilities and other barriers to work, gain greater independence through employment. Mr. Landsberg oversees all rehabilitation services and business operations. The organization includes a Donated Goods and Retail business with 35 stores and 56 other attended donation centers. Goodwill also has several entrepreneurial divisions: Apparel & Flag Manufacturing, Custodial Services, Laundry Services, and Third Party Logistics. With 3,000 employees, Goodwill is the 18th largest employer in South Florida, and has the largest disabled workforce in the State of Florida (1,000). Having served on GISF’s Board of Directors for 18 years prior to being named CEO in March 2014, Mr. Landsberg is committed to growing Goodwill’s capacity to provide rehabilitation, on-the-job training, work experience, and job placement services for our region’s 470,000 working-aged people with a disability.

Mr. Landsberg a proven business leader, and a 30-year veteran of the newspaper industry, was previously president and publisher of the Miami Herald Media Company, a position he held for eight years. He spent his first 10 years in a variety of financial management positions. He became chief financial officer in 1996, and also founded and ran the company’s internet operations. He served as vice president of advertising for six years and was later promoted to general manager of MHMC prior to assuming the role of publisher in October 2006.

A Miami native, Landsberg was raised in Coral Gables and attended Coral Gables High School. He graduated from the University of Florida with a finance degree, earned an MBA from the University of Miami, and completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.

Landsberg is the previous president of the Florida Goodwill Association, a member of the United Way of Miami-Dade County Agency Executives, a member of the UW Community Impact Committee, and a member of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. He was formerly on the executive committee of the United Way of Miami-Dade, board member of Goodwill Industries of South Florida, on the advisory board of the University of Florida School of Business MBA program, on the Community Advisory Board for the University of Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute, a member of the Orange Bowl Committee, the American Heart Association – Men Go Red for Women Chair and on the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors.

Senior Leadership

Senior Leadership

David Landsberg
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mauricio Hernandez
Chief Operating Officer Business Services
Raisa Ciobanu
Chief Financial Officer Financial Management
Karen Lithgow
Chief Marketing Officer
Angelica Gomez
Vice President Information Technology
Darrell Cunningham
Vice President Mission Services
Viviana Santisteban
Vice President Human Resources
Joe Hornstein
Vice President Philanthropy
Michael Piasentini
Vice President Donated Goods
Eduardo Dominguez
Vice President Apparel Manufacturing
Jocelyne Moussavou
Vice President Service Contracts
William Eckler
Vice President Commercial Laundry
Mark Marchioli
Vice President Business Development
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