“The Vilna Shul Speakers Series” features leading voices from Boston and beyond, including voices from journalism, technology, law, finance, biotechnology and life sciences, arts and culture, and other fields. Speakers have included Scott Kirsner, Columnist for the Boston Globe; Ken Novak, vice chairman of America Online (AOL) / Time Warner, and special advisor to General Catalyst Partners; Irving Wladawsky-Berger – Chairman Emeritus, IBM Academy of Technology and Visiting Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT; Jonathan Kraft, the president and chief operating officer of the Kraft Group and also the president of the three-time Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots, and other featured speakers, and Bob Lessin is Vice Chairman of Jefferies & Company, Inc., a full-service investment bank and institutional securities firm based in New York, and others.
