Staff

Gadi Ben-Menachem

CEO

Gadi Ben-Menachem is a former Wall Street executive who has spent more than 15 years volunteering for various non-profits in his community and on a national level.   Most recently he served as Co-Chair of the Nationwide Leadership Council for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.   He also served as Board Chair for his local chapter, Big Brother Big Sisters of Northern NJ, Board Chair for Clothes for Kids Sake of NJ, Board Chair of the Morris County Chamber of Commerce and was a board member of the Parks Alliance of Morris County.

Gadi received the Morris Alumni Achievement Award in 2014 which recognized him for distinguished community  leadership in helping to improve the lives of citizens in Morris County.  In 2013 he was the recipient of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America National Board Member of the Year Award and in 2005 served as the Honoree for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern New Jersey’s Annual Gala.

Gadi was a Managing Director at Oppenheimer & Co. where he spent the last 26 years of his Wall Street career.  He began his tenure in the Institutional Equity Sales Department and then moved on to launch and manage their Institutional Middle Market Division, run their Latin American Institutional Equity Division, manage one of their New York City Wealth Management offices and finally, open and manage three Wealth Management offices in Northern NJ.     Prior to Oppenheimer, Gadi was a Vice President at Cowen & Co.’s Institutional Sales-Trading Division.   In 2012 he was named one of 100 Leading Managers by New York Life’s Nationwide Survey.

He graduated from Boston University with a BS in Business Administration & Finance and also served in the Israeli Defense Force as a First Class Company Sergeant and Tank Commander.

Gadi lives in Short Hills, NJ with his wife Suzanne and 2 daughters, Amanda and Rachel.