Roy J. Zuckerberg

Non-Executive Chairman and Founding Principal of Samson Capital Advisors LLC.

Roy chairs the Board of Directors.
 
Roy is currently a Senior Director of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. after stepping down as Vice Chairman of the Firm, a member of the Executive Committee, and head of the Equities Division in November of 1998. He joined the firm in 1967 and in 1976 became a General Partner. In 2001, he created a private investment company.
 
Roy is former Chairman of the Board of Trustees and presently a member of the Executive Committee of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc. In 1997, under his leadership as Chairman of Long Island Jewish (LIJ), a ground-breaking agreement was signed to merge LIJ with North Shore Health System. This resulted in the formation of the third largest non-profit secular healthcare system in the United States.
 
He serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Roy is also Honorary Chairman of the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, part of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research. The Zuckerberg Institute, now in its sixth year of operation leads interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research and graduate education in water sciences, aimed at improving human well-being in drylands through technologies and policies for sustainable use of water resources. With drylands occupying more than one-third of the land surface of the earth, the work of the Institute transforms the understanding and development of vital worldwide resources.
 
A Trustee of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Roy is a Director of the Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises, Inc. and Mack-Cali Realty Corporation. He is past Chairman of the Securities Industry Association and chaired the Investment Committee of the University of Massachusetts Foundation from 2000 to 2009.
 
Roy received a B.S. from Lowell Technological Institute in 1958 and served in the United States Army. In June, 1994 he received The Distinguished Alumni Award, in 1999 he received a Doctor of Humane Letters; and in 2002, he received the President’s Medal from the University of Massachusetts. Just recently, Roy received a Doctor Philosophia Honoris Causa from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in recognition of his outstanding philanthropic leadership and commitment to the University and its academic mission.