Honorees 6

Honoree: David R. Pedowitz

David R. Pedowitz Senior Portfolio Manager & Managing Director, Neuberger Berman Former Board Chair, Trustee, Blythedale Children’s Hospital

David Pedowitz is a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager in the Private Asset Management Group at Neuberger Berman LLC. David has more than 37 years of investment industry experience as a portfolio manager and analyst. In 2003, he joined the Bolton Group at Neuberger Berman to co-manage $1.6 billion. Under his leadership, the team now manages approximately $10 billion in equity and fixed-income assets for high-net-worth individuals, corporations, and not-for-profit institutions. Additionally, David served on Neuberger Berman’s Partnership Committee from its inception in 2007 through 2017.

From 1985 through mid-2003, David was employed by David J. Greene and Company, an investment advisory firm in New York. In addition to many years as a senior analyst / portfolio manager, he also held the position of Director of Research and was a member of David J. Greene and Company’s Investment and Executive Committees.

David graduated Summa Cum Laude from Union College in 1979, with a BS in Psychology, and received an MBA in Accounting and Finance from Cornell University, Johnson School of Management in 1982. He also earned a JD from Cornell University Law School in 1983 where he was named to The Order of the Coif. David has been a member of the New York State Bar Association since 1983.

David has a strong commitment to both local and international communities. At Blythedale Children’s Hospital, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 2008, and served as Board Chair from July 2015 to June 2020. During his tenure on the Board, the Hospital completed numerous capital projects including a 56,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art in-patient building, The Stavros Niarchos Center for Speech and Audiology, a $15 million Day Hospital and Early Childhood Center, and the construction of the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Pediatric Long Term Care Pavilion.

He is Vice Chair of the Investment Committee and a member of the National Board of Governors of American Jewish Committee, and Investment Committee Chair for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. David has been a Board Member and Treasurer of the Neuberger Berman Foundation since its inception.

With his wife, Faith (who serves as Board Chair for Crossing Thresholds), David has traveled many times (to resume post COVID-19) with Crossing Thresholds to Nairobi, Kenya to build schools and work with administrators, teachers, parents and children in Nairobi’s Kibera Slum. Four schools have been constructed to date, providing education and two nutritious meals per day to more than 1,200 pre-K to high school children and young adults. During Kibera’s three pandemic-related shutdowns, Crossing Thresholds schools provided lifesaving food distribution to students and their families and other local families in need.

We are proud to support Blythedale Children’s Hospital and each of tonight’s honorees for all of the incredible work they do with the children.