Stephan Porges (b. 1917 Tucensky Svaty Martin
near Bratislava, d. 1975) married on 9/7/40 in pre-Israel Palestine
where they met on Kibbutz Ramat David : Inge
Yael Winterfeldt (b. 7/30/22 Berlin, Germany, d. 08/06/2007 NY). The US Holocaust
Museum includes Tucensky Svaty Martin among the towns that were
wiped out during the Holocaust.
Karen-Shelly "K. Shelly" Porges (b. 1953 Tel Aviv Israël) married
(1) Ovidiu Pasternak (b. 6/24/48 Bucharest, Romania)
(2)
Richard Wilhelm (b. 5/17/46 in NYC)
She lives in the U.S.A.
Stephen Benjamin Pasternak (b. 6/13/86 Toronto, Canada)
Speaker - K. Shelly Porges '74 K. Shelly Porges co-founded Global Payments Experts llc. in 2003. With deep domain expertise in the payments and financial services industry, Global Payments Experts llc. provides business strategy, risk management, marketing, and product development consulting to deliver bottom line results.
Global Payments Experts llc. professionals have worked with leading companies such as Accenture, American Express, Ameritech, Bank of America, BB&T, Bell Canada, Capital One, Chevron, Citigroup, Diners Club, ETrade, First Data Corp., GE Capital Card Services, H&R Block, Hewitt Associates, Household International, Innoventry Corp., KeyCorp., Livecapital.com, MBNA, NexTag, Inc., Paymybills.com, PPS, Inc., Providian, Star Systems, Inc., thinkSmart llc., ThirdAge Media, Thomas Weisel Partners, U.S. Bank, Verizon, Visa U.S.A., Visa International, Wachovia, Washington Mutual, Wells Fargo, and Zurich Scudder Investments.
Ms. Porges is a recognized expert in marketing and strategy development with a significant track record in launching products, brands and companies. As an advisor, she has consulted with various Fortune 500 company executive teams on achieving breakthrough results. As an executive, she has led some of the nation’s leading financial institutions in developing powerful strategies in both start-up and turn-around environments, as well as in re-energizing growth in existing businesses.
Ms. Porges’ career highlights include a ten-year stint at American Express, culminating as executive head of marketing for American Express Canada. She then served as Senior Vice President of Retail Product Management for Bank of America during its historic turn-around in the late 80’s where she helped the bank move from #23 to #1 in consumer lending in the country, as well as from last to first in deposit and revenue growth among the nation’s major banks. Following this, as founder and CEO of Porges/ Hudson Marketing (PHMI), a strategy advisory firm, Ms. Porges led one of the most well-known, well-respected boutique firms in the financial services industry.
Ms. Porges also held executive positions in a number of start-up ventures including Executive Vice President of Strategic Marketing for a subsidiary of Wachovia (then First Union) Bank, the 6th largest bank in the country, where she ran a strategic alliance business, and launched an internet lending business which grew to over $100 million in its first full year of operation. She then served as Executive Vice President-Marketing for Third Age Media, the leading Internet portal site for baby boomers, where she was responsible for the record-setting growth—over 400%-- in both visitors and registered users at Third Age in 1999. In January 2000, The Industry Standard named Third Age one of the Top Ten Most Popular Sites on the Web based on growth in unique visitors. She also served as Chief Marketing Officer of Scudder Weisel Capital LLC, a specialty investment firm, a joint venture between Thomas Weisel Partners, at the time, the country’s fastest growing investment bank, and Zurich Scudder Investments, one of the largest asset managers in the world.
Ms. Porges has served on both corporate boards, including Renaissance Holdings Corp. and Pueblo Corp., as well as a variety of non-profit boards, including the United Way of the Bay Area, the Financial Women’s Association of San Francisco and the Jewish Community Federation. In 1996, she was named the Financial Women’s Association Distinguished Member of the Year for launching the Financial Woman of the Year Event which has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for women’s scholarships over the years. In 1997, she was recognized for her volunteer leadership by being awarded one of only 40 fellowships by the Wexner Heritage Foundation.
Ms. Porges holds both a BS and MS degree from Cornell University and serves on the Cornell University Council, on the Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program Advisory Council and on the President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW), of which she was a founding member. Ms. Porges is frequently quoted in a variety of industry publications such as the American Banker, Credit Card News, and Fortune magazine and was a contributor to such business books as The AMA Handbook of Services Marketing, If It Ain’t Broke, Break It!, and How to Run a Small Business.
Ms. Porges’ most proud accomplishment is being the mother of her two children, Ariel and Stephen.
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Blue and silver
Getting ready for the Festival of Lights
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
Chanukah. Hanukah. Hanukkah.
...
At the Porges family home in Greenbrae, 11-year-old Ariel Porges picked out her Noah's Ark chanukiah when she was still a little girl. When she was in fourth grade, she made her own at school.
"Hanukkah is my favorite Jewish holiday," she says. "I like a lot of the food -- like sufganiot (jelly doughnuts) and latkes (potato pancakes). Mom and I make them together with sour cream and applesauce."
Shelly Porges, a native of Israel and Ariel's mom, said she's made it a priority to teach her children about the traditions of Hanukkah.
"Oftentimes people don't know what it is, much less how to celebrate it. So I've made myself sort of a proselytizer among Jews in that way. And over the years we've spurred on more of our friends to decorate and throw parties."
Alexandra
Poe is a partner in the Securities Department at WilmerHale.
She joined the firm in 2005. Ms. Poe has nearly 20 years'
experience in investment management practice counseling hedge
funds, mutual funds, investment advisers and broker-dealer
advisory programs.
Practice
Ms. Poe was most recently Senior Vice President and Assistant
General Counsel at US Trust and Chief Legal Officer of the
Excelsior family of funds. Her responsibilities included
advice regarding fund formation, governance, registration
and distribution, private offering exemptions, and the drafting
and implementation of compliance policies and programs. Before
joining US Trust, Ms. Poe spent five years as General Counsel
at Schroder Capital Management and President of the Schroder
family of mutual funds. She also served as Vice President
and Chief Legal Officer for Managed Accounts and Alternative
Investment Strategies at Prudential Financial and as Vice
President and investment company counsel for Citibank Global
Asset Management.
Over the course of her career, Ms Poe has provided and supervised
comprehensive legal services for financial services firms
engaged in investment management, including investment advisers
to hedge funds, mutual funds, managed accounts and institutional
clients. She has also counseled clients in numerous investment
adviser acquisitions and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
Recent Highlights
Counseled adviser of a family of 41 mutual and hedge funds
in response to outside auditor’s failure to maintain
independence
Counseled national broker-dealer firm in connection with
impact to and continuity for investment advisory programs
as a consequence of its acquisition
Advised major wrap fee program sponsor in restructuring and
renegotiating arrangements with participating investment
advisers
Professional Activities
Ms. Poe serves on the board of directors of the High Water
Women Foundation, which was awarded The National Council
on Economic Education's 2006 "Visionary Award for Champions
of Economic Empowerment." She is a member of 100 Women
in Hedge Funds, and has served on the organization's Philanthropy
and Gala Committees (2003-2004) and participated in its Legal
Peer Advisory Group (2005). She is also a member of the Women's
Investment Management Forum and the Investment Management
Regulation Committee of the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York.
Publications
Ms. Poe co-authored the chapter entitled "Wrap Fee
Programs," in the second edition of the Practising Law
Institute's treatise, Investment Adviser Regulation: A Step
by Step Guide to Compliance and the Law (with James Anderson)
(2006).
Speaking Engagements
Nuts & Bolts of Financial Products 2007: Understanding
the Evolving World of Capital Market and Investment Management
Products – PLI Seminar – New York, New York – February
26-27, 2007
Hedge Fund Best Practices: Operations and Regulatory Compliance – MARHedge
Cayman Conference – Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands – December
3-5, 2006
Jefferson Wells/WH Hedge Fund Roundtable: Identifying and
Handling Material Non-Public Information – New York,
New York – June 21, 2006
New York City Bar CLE Seminar: Current Legal & Ethical
Issues Facing Investment Companies & Their Counsel – Auditor
Independence for Registered Investment Companies – New
York, New York – June 12, 2006
Langfan Yeshiva College Constitutional Oratory Competition – Judge – New
York, New York – May 10, 2006
Investment Advisers Association – Compliance Workshop – Chicago,
Illinois – December 1, 2005
Institutional Investor Event: Hedge Fund Best Practices – New
York, New York – October 19, 2005
Has also spoken at other past events held by the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York, the Institutional Investor,
the Institute for International Research (IIR) and the Investment
Company Institute (ICI)
Community Involvement
Ms. Poe was a 9/11 volunteer consultant with Safe Horizon,
assisting WTC survivors in obtaining available benefits and
advising the organization in revising by-laws and board policies.
She has also served as board member and Executive Director
of Artists to End Hunger.
"My mother is a woman who speaks
with her life as much as with her tongue."
Kesaya
E. Noda, Author
Dear Friends,
It is with a heavy heart that we write to tell you that early this morning on
June 8, 2007, our beloved mother, Inge Yael Winterfeldt Porges, passed away. As
you know, she had suffered in recent years from both vascular dementia and Parkinson's
Disease such that this passing, while sad, comes as a relief. In our grief,
we are happy that her suffering has ended.
A memorial service will be held at at the graveside on Sunday, June 10 at 11am
prior to her burial next to my father, at New Montefiore Cemetery,
Farmingdale, NY. We will be sitting
shiva at Sandy's house, Sunday directly after the burial.
Our mother was a remarkable and independent woman, full of life and love. She
was a talented artist, a gifted linguist and a loving wife, mother and grandmother. Even
in her youth, she was accomplished as both a Junior Olympic gymnast and a gifted
student. While she grew up in Berlin, Germany, she faced the horrors of
the Holocaust with great courage. An ardent Zionist even at the age of
sixteen, after Kristallnacht, as her family prepared to flee to the US, she chose
instead to emigrate to pre-Israel Palestine to help build the Jewish homeland. Not
knowing if she would ever see her family again or even arrive safely, she embarked
on what would be a life-altering journey. There, she met our father, Stefan
Porges, of blessed memory, the love of her life and together they built a home,
a family and a life.
Throughout her life, our mother was an ardent supporter of Israel, and returned
there in 1977 after our father's death in 1975. There she married her devoted
second husband, Baruch Zur, of blessed memory. While in the US, she was
a lifetime member of the Hadassah Women's Organization because its Youth Aliyah
arm saved her from Nazi Germany and its Hospital in Jerusalem did life-saving
work.
Through all these years, she was someone who savored life in all its nuances
and strove for excellence in all she did.
She loved to travel and infected
her children with the travel bug. She was a wonderful cook, homemaker and
hostess whose mark is left indelibly on her children who all love to eat (as
well as cook). She was a sophisticated appreciator of the arts and introduced
us to museums, theater, dance and music whenever possible. It's no wonder
that each of us has incorporated the arts somehow into our lives. And,
most of all, she created a beautiful and comfortable environment for her family
and friends.
Among those who will miss her loving presence are her grandchildren: Emily,
Nick, Lucy, Stephen and Ariel and her great-granddaughter, Corey.
As we come together to celebrate her life and mourn her passing, we will cherish
the memories of happier times that she made possible. It is how she would
have wanted it.
These next few days, weeks and years will certainly seem emptier without her
soul in this world but her wisdom and her love will guide us.
"As an artist and communicator, Amos Poe is not afraid
to simultaneously challenge and move an audience. Seldom,
if ever, in American cinema has a sensibility of such avant garde
and seemingly pessimistic tastes produced films of such compassion
and reflection."