Andrés Spokoiny is a long­time Jew­ish com­mu­nal leader with a his­to­ry of lead­ing suc­cess­ful orga­ni­za­tion­al trans­for­ma­tions. He is the pres­i­dent and CEO of the Jew­ish Fun­ders Net­work (JFN), the pre­mier phil­an­thropic orga­ni­za­tion of the Jew­ish world. Before that, Andrés served as the CEO of Fed­er­a­tion CJA in Mon­tre­al and, pri­or to that, he worked for the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Joint Dis­tri­b­u­tion Com­mu­ni­ty (JDC) in Paris, France. Before his Jew­ish com­mu­nal work, Andres worked for IBM Corp. and was respon­si­ble for train­ing, devel­op­ment, hir­ing, and recruit­ment for IBM’s Latin Amer­i­ca South­ern Region. Andres has a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary aca­d­e­m­ic back­ground, includ­ing busi­ness, edu­ca­tion, and rab­bini­cal stud­ies in dif­fer­ent insti­tu­tions around the world. He was born in Argenti­na and lives in Brook­lyn, NY.